Our mission is to help fellows become first-rate child and adolescent psychiatrists who dedicate their careers as leaders in this field.
Courses, seminars, and conferences
The principal didactics units during the two-year fellowship are:
- Advanced Psychiatry
- Child Development
- Clinical Pearls
- Diversity Equity and Inclusion
- Executive Functioning
- Neuroscience
- Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
- Practice of Medicine/Professional Development
- Psychotherapy
- Reading the Literature
First-year fellows have a summer introductory series (Nuts & Bolts) on key topics and second-year fellows have a weekly leadership seminar. Throughout both years, most rotations have weekly conferences.
Also available are several weekly departmental seminars such as Grand Rounds, Research Rounds, Advanced Resident Seminars, and conferences on developmental neuroimaging, genetics, and epidemiology.
Faculty interaction
In addition to supervision from the rotation director and faculty attendings, second-year fellows have weekly individual supervision dedicated to discussing fellows’ well-being including work-life balance, interpersonal communication, the secondary trauma of our work, and conversations around ongoing stressors.
Tracking your progress
Faculty complete fellow competency evaluations after each rotation. Fellows meet with the training director twice yearly to review this feedback and to review the fellows’ self-assessments on the CAP Milestones. In addition, fellows take the Adult and Child PRITE and complete the required clinical skills exams.