First-year
Fellows rotate and train at multiple locations including St. Louis Children’s Hospital, in the acute inpatient unit, the emergency room, consult on the medical floors, and treat patients at the eating disorders and neurology clinics. Fellows also rotate at Hawthorn Children’s Psychiatric Hospital, a state-supported facility where lengths of stay average four to six weeks, allowing the fellows to follow patients through extended courses of treatment.
- Acute Inpatient Psychiatry at St. Louis Children’s Hospital (Pediatric Behavioral Health Unit)
- Consultation Service at St. Louis Children’s Hospital
- Eating Disorders at St. Louis Children’s Hospital
- Electives (multiple options)
- Inpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at Hawthorn Children’s Psychiatric State Hospital
- Pediatric Neurology at St. Louis Children’s Hospital
Second-year
The second year prioritizes independence and flexibility. Fellows experience an acceleration in outpatient work, autonomy, and therapeutic practice while rotating on school consultation, infant and preschool clinic, substance use disorders, outpatient community mental health, and psychotherapy. They have built-in administration time, too.
- School Consultations
- Infant & Preschool Clinic
- Substance Use Disorders
- Outpatient Community Mental Health at BJC-BH
- Psychotherapy Clinic
- General Outpatient Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Continuity Clinic at 4444
Calls
Fellows take home calls at St. Louis Children’s Hospital to learn emergency evaluation and management skills that are very useful and will make our graduates comfortable with any psychiatric patient emergency. Calls are geared towards this learning objective and not toward service to the hospital.
- Home calls end at 9:30 pm and there is never a requirement to work at the hospital overnight.
- First and second-year fellows take calls one evening per week (on average).