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psychoeducation, supporting African American youth, and connecting community members to
county mental health resources. She has led presentations to improve community psychoedu-
cation and created a group for latency aged African American youth at a local elementary
school. An important aspect of her project is understanding the needs of the African American
community and developing creative ways to address them.

The residency continues to place a high value on wellness,
community building, and esprit de corps. During a recent business meeting
the residents took some time, in between discussing rotations and career
development, to do some artistic projects together while at the beach.

Ben Burton, MD, PGY2 completed 120 hours of training in
NMT (Neurosequential model of therapeutics) during his
intern year, which shows a tremendous commitment and some serious time management
skills.

Importantly, the residents continue to express their interests in things outside of medicine.
Rennie Burke, MD, PGY3 recently presented at the Second First Annual
Boss Baby Symposium, which invites attendees to engage in interdisci-
plinary analysis, interpretation, and critique of 2017 film The Boss Baby (starring Alec
Baldwin). We invite you to ask him more directly about his contributions to this important
area of scholarship!
The residency recently had an all class reunion, with residents who graduated early in the
years of the program, including the 1970s, in attendance. Retired psychiatrists, mid-career doctors, and interns got
a chance to socialize and discuss the similarities and differences in medical training over the last 50 years.

Several residents have matched to Fellowships recently, including Jioachen Ke, MD, PGY 4 to U-Colorado for
CAP, Drs. Shatola and Madrigal to Stanford for CAP,
Rennie Burke, MD to UCSF for Public Psychiatry and
Connie Chen MD PGY4 to Stanford for Addiction.

Finally, our county also recently suffered a mass-
shooting. Though in the end their services were not
utilized, the residents volunteered their language skills
to translate for the Mandarin speaking farming commu-
nity. Several residents attended a vigil in Half Moon Bay,
and as a residency we remain committed to reducing
gun violence and supporting our community through
this difficult time.

Please share your thoughts, insights and experiences with your fellow members,
to be published in our next Psychiatric Physician issue.

CLICK HERE to submit.

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