Curriculum

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. A female therapist in blue medical scrubs sits on a bed in a patient's room speaking to a child.

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.