Welcome, and thank you for your interest in our program!
There has never been a better time to apply to our Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine. We are confident that we offer training that is exceptional and difficult to replicate elsewhere. We are particularly collegial and nurturing and provide a supportive environment in an unusually research-rich setting.
Our fellows work side-by-side with known research leaders in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry who are outstanding clinicians, teachers, and mentors. We have faculty on the Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Editorial Board, and our current year’s divisional federal funding total exceeds 6 million dollars.
What you’ll learn
The overall goal of the Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellowship training program is to help each fellow develop the necessary knowledge, skills, and experience to enjoy a productive career as a child/adolescent psychiatrist in either a clinical or a research career. To obtain this goal, a fellow is active in a progressive series of clinical, educational, and research experiences designed to enhance the fellow’s abilities continuously.
The fellowship provides a combination of didactic and clinical work, which is broad enough to ensure knowledge of the wide variety of disorders of childhood and adolescence, and yet ensures thorough diagnostic and treatment skills.
Our program requires all fellows to gain competence in clinical child psychiatry and to address mental disorders from infancy through adolescence in terms of the individual, their family, and their social setting. Developmental considerations are at the core of the conceptual approach.
Our graduates have pursued distinguished careers, securing roles in private practice, community mental health organizations, academic settings, and independent research.
The WashU difference
As a Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow at Washington University in St. Louis School of Medicine, you will actively engage in:
- a remarkable inpatient setting providing the highest level of acute psychiatric care for Missouri children and adolescents.
- a consultation-liaison rotation in a world-class children’s hospital.
- a multidisciplinary eating disorders rotation designed to foster collaboration among healthcare professionals and deliver comprehensive, patient-centered care.
- a telepsychiatry rotation focused on supporting engagement for substance use disorders in a virtual setting.
- a phenomenal infant-preschool clinic with extensive outpatient experiences in both academic and community mental health practices.
- school-based educational and behavioral planning for children with developmental disabilities within the school setting.
- a psychotherapy clinic with real-time video-based monitoring and feedback.
- a two-year didactic curriculum including a leadership series and an executive functioning series.
- an ever-expanding portfolio of other innovative clinical programs.
Our program prioritizes continuity of care and offers extensive opportunities for engagement with children within the community. This range of exposures equips fellows for careers in every conceivable setting. Our instructional methods are both innovative and centered on the needs of learners. We provide a variety of research training opportunities for emerging clinician-scientists in child psychiatry, both during and following fellowship.
