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First Year Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship

Rotations

  • Child Inpatient Unit
  • Adolescent Inpatient Unit
  • Consultation Liaison and Emergency Psychiatry
  • Pediatric Neurology
  • Outpatient Clinic
  • Partial Day Hospitalization
  • Normal Development Observation
  • Juvenile/Forensic Family Court
  • Early Intervention Substance Use Clinic

Other Educational Experiences

  • Partial Day Hospitalization
  • Normal Development
  • Family Court
  • Community Psychiatry
  • Simulation-Based Learning
    • Promoting youth mental health through simulation-based learning

Didactics

  • Normal Development
  • Child and Adolescent Diagnostic Interviewing
  • Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
  • Introduction to Psychopharmacology
  • Introduction to Psychotherapy
  • Introduction to Child and Adolescent Outpatient
  • Introduction to Acute Care (Inpatient and Consultation Liaison)
  • Introduction to Quality Improvement and Research Principles
  • Introduction to Psychosocial Services
  • Introduction to Social Determinants of Health and Outcomes
  • Transcultural issues

Second Year Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship

Rotations

  • Child and Family Assessment Clinic (CFAC)
  • Autism Clinic
  • First Episode Clinic
  • School Consults
  • Consults - Jefferson County Court
  • Outpatient Clinic
  • College Student and Transitional Age Youth Clinic
  • Electives

Other Clinical Experiences

  • Neurodevelopmental Disorders Clinic
  • Adolescent Juvenile System 

Didactics

  • Introduction to Child and Adolescent Forensics
  • Introduction to Public School Law
  • Introduction to Public School Administrative Issues
  • Introduction to Adolescent Addiction
  • Transition to Practice

Electives (Below are some electives taken in the past)

  • Parent Child and Interactive Therapy
  • Adolescent Addiction
  • College Student and Transitional Age Youth Psychiatry
  • Child and Adolescent Emergency Services
  • Integrated care in primary care
  • Collaborative Care in pediatric practice
  • Spirituality and Psychiatry
  • Sleep Medicine
  • Research Elective
  • Medical Education
  • Medical student Education

First and Second Year Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship

  • Research Principles and Quality Improvement
  • Fellows as Clinician Educators Program (FACEP)
  • Behavioral Therapies (including Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Parent Child Interactive Therapy)
  • Introduction to Family Therapy
  • Diagnostic Interviewing
  • Neurology/Neurobiology and Genetics 
  • Board Review
  • PRITE Review

Conferences

  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Grand Rounds (Monthly)
  • Journal Club (Monthly)
  • Multidisciplinary Case Conference (Weekly)
  • Psychopharmacology Case Conference (Monthly)
  • Patient Safety and Quality Case Conference
  • Wellness Series