Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
Program Overview
School of Medicine Psychiatry and Neuroscience
The University of California, Riverside School of Medicine offers a comprehensive program in Psychiatry and Neuroscience, designed to train the next generation of physicians in innovative healthcare.
Program Overview
The program aims to provide a wide range of educational experiences, emphasizing both normal and abnormal development across a wide age range and multiple theoretical orientations. This approach enables residents to grow in their medical knowledge and competence through a gradually increasing level of clinical responsibility.
Psychiatry Residency
The Psychiatry Residency program offers a comprehensive curriculum, including:
- Program Overview
- Residency Program Leadership
- How to Apply
- Message from the Training Director
- Training Sites
- Resident Rotations
- Didactic Curriculum
- Call
- Meet our Residents
- Visiting Students
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
The Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship program provides a wide range of educational experiences, including:
- Program Overview
- Meet our Fellows
- Clinical Rotations & Experience
- Messages from the Fellowship Director and the Vice Chair
- Fellowship Training Sites
- Curriculum Overview
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Curriculum Overview
The goal of the curriculum is to provide a wide range of educational experiences that emphasize both normal and abnormal development across a wide age range and across multiple theoretical orientations. This approach enables fellows to grow in their medical knowledge and competence through a gradually increasing level of clinical responsibility during their two-year fellowship experience.
Seminar and Course Listing
The curriculum includes a range of seminars and courses, such as:
- Neuroscience Seminar
- Principles of Psychodynamic Psychotherapy with Children & Adolescents
- Therapeutic Engagement
- Family Therapy - Theory & Practice
- Developmental Psychopathology
- Basic Psychopharmacology
- Psychological Assessment
- Ethics in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Systems of Care
- Pediatric Consult - Liaison Psychiatry Seminar
- Play Therapy Seminar
- Evidence Based Psychotherapy
- Forensic Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Cultural Issues in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
- Infant/Preschool Observation & Assessment
- Department of Psychiatry Journal Club
- Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds
- Advanced Psychopharmacology
- Advanced Case Seminar
- Advanced Cognitive Therapies Seminar
- Department of Psychiatry Morbidity & Mortality Reviews
Core Competencies
The program aims to develop the following core competencies in its fellows:
- Evaluation and treatment of patients representing the full spectrum of psychiatric illnesses in children and adolescents
- Treatment of children and adolescents for the development of conceptual understanding and beginning clinical skills in major treatment modalities
- Evaluation and treatment of patients from diverse cultural backgrounds and varied socioeconomic levels
- Performance and documentation of an adequate individual and family history, mental status, physical and neurological examinations
- Basic neurobiological, psychological, and clinical sciences relevant to psychiatry
- The full range of psychopathology in children and adolescents
- Recognition and management of domestic and community violence
- Diversity and cultural issues pertinent to children, adolescents, and their families
- The appropriate uses and limitations of psychological tests
Fellowship Evaluation
The program includes a formal examination assessment procedure for cognitive knowledge, the Child Psychiatry Resident In-Training Exam (CHILD PRITE), developed by the American College of Psychiatrists. The results of this written examination help the program director assess the effectiveness of the educational program and identify areas of strength and weakness in the fellow's knowledge of child psychiatry.
Clinical Skills Assessment
A formal assessment of clinical skills is completed during each year of training, involving a board-style faculty-observed live patient interview and an oral examination. The assessment evaluates the fellow's:
- Interviewing skills
- Ability to elicit an appropriate present and past psychiatric, medical, social, and developmental history
- Mental status assessment
- Presentation of a verbal summary of the clinical data collected
- Presentation of a relevant formulation, differential diagnosis, prognosis, and provisional treatment plan
Resident Scholarly Activities
The program supports academic opportunities through financial support for attendance at meetings and other scholarly activities. Residents are expected to participate in scholarly activities, including academic journal club, and have the opportunity to present at departmental grand rounds. Residents also receive formal instruction in research and are encouraged to pursue research projects, with attendance at national meetings supported by the department.