Mills-Peninsula offers a broad spectrum of services for adults experiencing psychiatric disorders, ranging from outpatient assessments to intensive inpatient care. The resident is part of a multi-disciplinary treatment team within an acute inpatient treatment facility structured as a therapeutic community. This site provides residents an important experience with higher socioeconomic status patients who choose a dynamically oriented hospital program. The Dual Diagnosis program enables the proper assessment and processing of integrated treatment at any of the three levels of care. Treatment modalities include individual, group, and family therapies, as well as psychopharmacology and electroconvulsive therapy.
Residents have responsibility for one to three inpatients.
Residents have primary responsibility for 5 to 10 inpatients and serve one-half day per week in an outpatient clinic. Residents spend 9 hours per week in attending rounds and 3 hours of daily didactic instruction with clinical correlation by senior neurology residents. Faculty consists of 1 attending and 2 senior neurology residents in a department of over 30 neurologists. Kaiser-Permanente Medical Center is a 318 bed community hospital that provides care for approximately 250,000 members of the Kaiser Foundation Health Plan. Many Stanford residents of various specialties have clinical rotations here.