Snapshots
Viet was born and raised in southern California and aside from leaving occasionally (there were brief affairs with Nebraska, Berkeley, and Washington, DC), she really had no reason to leave. With a public health background, she graduated medical school at UCLA with a passion for community and global health. Having no idea which specialty to choose, she took an online quiz (not buzzfeed) which indicated that psychiatry would best suit her appreciation for interaction with people as well as creativity. She quickly dismissed this, because it was just an online quiz, and what does it know about her? But here we are, many years later, as she discovers how difficult it is to write in the third person about herself. If you want to talk to Viet, she is interested in global health, emergency psychiatry, traveling, YouTube, cats, buzzfeed quizzes, cat videos, and the city of Los Angeles.
Education:
M.D.: UCLA
M.P.H.: UC Berkeley
B.S.: Biochemistry, UC Riverside
None. We do not take call during our fourth year.
- The year consists of 13 blocks.
- 6 blocks are spent doing non-psychiatry rotations, which include the following: 1 block of inpatient medicine at the VA, 1 month of Emergency Medicine at the VA, 2 months of ambulatory medicine at the Sepulveda VA, 1 month of neurology at the VA, and 1 month of Neurobehavior at the VA.
- 6 blocks are spent doing psychiatry rotations, which include the following: 2 months of inpatient Geriatric Psychiatry at UCLA, 1 month of Psychiatric Intensive Care Unit at the VA, 1 month of Emergency Psychiatry at Harbor, 1 month of Dual Diagnosis at the VA, and 2 blocks of 2 weeks of Night Float at UCLA, each of which is paired with 2 blocks of 2 weeks of vacation.
- Addiction Clinic
- Anxiety Disorders Clinic
- Asian Pacific Mental Health
- Assertive Community Treatment at VA
- Beit T’Shuvah Center
- Bipolar Clinic
- Borderline Personality Disorders Clinic
- CBT Clinic
- CBT for Schizophrenia
- Child Evaluation Clinic
- Couples Therapy Clinic
- Didi Hirsh Mental Health Center
- Eating Disorders Clinic
- Eating Disorders Group
- Edelman Mental Health Center
- Family Therapy Clinic
- General Outpatient Clinic
- Geriatric Evaluation Clinic
- HIV Clinic
- Hypnosis Seminar
- Intensive Short Term Dynamic Psychotherapy
- Interpersonal Psychotherapy Clinic
- Mental Health Intensive Case Management
- Mood Disorders Clinic
- Neurobehavior Clinic
- OCD Intensive Treatment Program
- Partial Hospitalization Program
- Post Deployment Clinic at the VA
- Primary Ambulatory Care Clinic
- Psychosis Clinic
- PTSD Clinic
- Schizophrenia Clinic
- Smoking Cessation Clinic
- St Joseph’s Homeless Outreach Program
- VA Day Treatment and Day Hospital
- VA Domiciliary
- VA Prolonged Exposure Therapy Clinic
- Venice Family Clinic
- Women’s Life Center
- Women’s VA Comprehensive Clinic
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