Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program

The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship is a two-year fully accredited program which can be entered after the third or fourth year of residency training. There are two or three fellows in each year. The program is eclectic with a broad-based curriculum which approaches the child from a biopsychosocial viewpoint. The program is fully accredited by the Accreditation Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).

The first year of the fellowship program is spent at a residential treatment center and in the outpatient clinic. This year is devoted to gaining the fundamentals of child psychiatric evaluation and treatment. Our outpatient clinic is a community mental health center with a large clientele of patients of various ethnic backgrounds, age ranges and a wide range of diagnoses.

In the second year the fellow is able to expand his or her skills to more complicated cases and to other settings. The fellow continues seeing patients in the outpatient clinic as well as rotates through consultation services and specialty clinics. Rotations include pediatric and ER consultation-liaison, forensic psychiatry, neurology and St. Anne's Residential Services for teenage mothers, and a school-based substance abuse program. Fellows rotate through all the specialty clinics in the outpatient division which include: Telepsychiatry Developmental Disabilities Clinic, Child Psychopharmacology Clinic, Early Childhood (0-5) Clinic, and the Adolescent-transitional youth substance abuse program.

There are courses in child development, psychopathology, practice guidelines, treatment strategies, psychopharmacology, school and psychoeducation and family therapy. Supervision consists of two individual as well as group supervisions per week in outpatient as well as rotation-specific supervision.

Fellows are encouraged to see patients in a variety of treatment modalities including both short-term as well as long-term therapy. Supervisors support training which enables a dynamic understanding of the child and family and the development of state of the art skills to treat them.

If you are interested in applying for the fellowship program, please click here for additional information and see a complete list of items required for your application.

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Child Psychiatry Application Requirements

Application materials are accepted between August 15th and October 1st for the upcoming academic year.

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