Our Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship curriculum ensures all fellows have a broad set of training experiences that include traditional mental health practice settings as well as innovative care delivery approaches. Because the program is educationally driven without service-dependent experiences, fellows can select specific clinical settings or patient populations to fulfill program and RRC requirements.
In the first year, the fellows focus on acute care in the inpatient, partial hospitalization, and inpatient pediatric consultation settings, all through a family-centered lens on interdisciplinary teams. On these rotations, fellows hone skills in developmentally-specific assessment and the broad array of interventions including psychopharmacologic and therapeutic approaches.
First-year fellows also begin their longitudinal outpatient therapy experience that continues throughout the fellowship. Through training experiences and didactics, fellows develop an appreciation of typical development, developmentally-specific presentations of psychopathology as well as an understanding of adaptation to illness.
The second year focuses on longitudinal outpatient care, including therapy, team-based outpatient care in a multidisciplinary practice, crisis evaluations, early childhood mental health, and an elective longitudinal experience. Fellows develop a strong basis of psychopharmacologic skills and therapeutic approaches across a diverse set of clinical sites.Because our program is small and educationally driven, substantial tailoring to individual interests is possible within the scope of the RRC requirements.
