Kaiser Permanente Northern California Greater Sacramento Valley Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a brand-new Kaiser Permanente psychiatry residency in Sacramento welcoming its inaugural class in 2026, built within the KP integrated health system that serves as the region's dominant healthcare provider. The program's stated pillars—compassionate care, academic rigor, sociocultural humility, and community engagement—translate into a structured scholarly requirement (case report, manuscript, poster/oral presentation, QI project, or committee service) completed across all four years, supported by KP's Division of Research and a dedicated GME Research Director rather than a research-first identity. Community engagement is explicit and systemic, with residents expected to address social determinants of mental health through local partnerships and outreach in California's capital region, plus optional access to KP's global/community health elective infrastructure. As a new program without graduate outcomes data, its identity is defined more by institutional mission and founding structure than by an established fellowship pipeline or subspecialty concentration.