Child and Adolescent
Psychiatry Fellowship Program
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The Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry offers a fully accredited, two-year fellowship training program in child and adolescent psychiatry. Entrance to the program commonly follows completion of the PGY-3 year. The training is designed to provide the fundamental knowledge and skills essential to success in academic and practice settings.
A biopsychosocial, developmental, multi-system framework provides the foundation for the Division's education and training programs. It is the goal of the program to foster an integrated understanding and utilization of biologic, individual psychodynamic, family systems, psychopharmacologic, cognitive, behavioral, and community perspectives. The fellow is exposed to patients of varied psychopathology, ethnicity and socioeconomic backgrounds. An average of 4 hours per week of on-site individual supervision for each fellow complements the didactic curriculum. The program prides itself for its collegial environment that fosters individual development. Focus is not only on clinical skills, but personal development, as well. (APPLY FOR TRAINING)
TRAINING EXPERIENCES:
Diverse clinical experiences are available through the following clinical rotations. Our clinical sites serve an inner-city urban poor population, accentuating psychosocial challenges, thereby increasing disease burden. This requires trainees to become proficient and creative team members to engage families and deliver care.
University Hospital (UH, Newark)
Pediatric Consultation-Liaison Service (Inpatient Units)
The Division is responsible for psychiatric assessment and care delivery to any UH unit to which children are admitted. Frequent consultations come from the general pediatric unit, as well as the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU) and Labor & Delivery. Medical illnesses represented include Diabetes, HIV, Osteosarcoma (for which our Orthopedic specialists attract regionally), Sickle Cell Disease, but also predominantly psychiatric presentations, such as Conversion Disorder.
Pediatric Psychiatry Emergency Room Consultation-Liaison
The Division receives 800-1000 Emergency Room consultations annually, mostly for the assessment of suicidal risk, but also run-away behavior, behavioral disruption; and altered mental status, including new onset disorders (such as Schizophrenia and Bipolar Disorder). Many times, we will follow up with patients first seen in the ER, when they are admitted to the inpatient units, such as after serious suicide attempts or traumatic injury.
Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care (UBHC, Newark)
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Outpatient Services
Located in the same building as the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, UBHC's Child & Adolescent Psychiatry "Unit" is a vibrant community mental health center, staffed by competent clinicians of varying backgrounds and clinical interests. Both first and second-year fellows carry outpatients in the clinic and receive psychotherapy and caseload (child & adolescent psychiatrist) supervision.
Child and Adolescent Partial Hospitalization Program
Also known as the "Challenge Program," this rotation offers a multidisciplinary team-based treatment experience to significantly mentally impaired children and adolescents.
Consultation to Schools
Within the UBHC experience, fellows provide comprehensive consultations to schools, assessing youth in the context of their schools and collaborating with school personnel in the process.
Rutgers New Jersey Medical School
Autism Clinic
Second-year fellows assess and treat children and adolescents on the Autism Spectrum in a once-weekly clinic, carrying their patients for a full year. This is a coveted experience, as Autism incidence is increasing and competence in this area is sought by prospective employees. The experience exposes fellows to other developmental disabilities and interfaces fellows with specialists in pediatric genetics and development.
Rutgers School of Nursing
François Xavier Bagnoud (FXB) Center
The FXB Center's dedicated multidisciplinary team provides care to perinatally HIV-infected children and adolescents. The Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is proud to offer its fellows participation in their care. This once-weekly clinic during the second year of training will expose fellows to some of their greatest challenges, in terms of psychosocial complexity and treatment alliance. The extraordinary team includes clinical social workers and nurses who have invested years in the care of clinic patients, sometimes from their births.
