Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Program

The Training Program

The Residency Training Program in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is a two year subspecialty program that is fully accredited by the American Council of Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Two residents per year are accepted into the program. Residents must have completed at least three years of psychiatric training prior to entering the program and have passed the USMLE Step 3 exam. The program provides a broad spectrum of well supervised clinical and didactic experiences in inpatient, outpatient, consultation liaison, and school psychiatry. The major goal of the program is to train competent child and adolescent psychiatrists whose ability to understand and treat the psychiatric problems of children, adolescents and families is based upon a firm theoretical and clinical foundation.

During the first year of their child psychiatry training, residents work on an acute inpatient unit for children and adolescents and perform consultations at Tampa General Hospital. They participate in a number of outpatient clinics at USF and participate in a CBT clinic at All Children's Hospital Rothman Center. Residents satisfy their training requirements for pediatric neurology during the first year.

During the second year of the training, residents participate in several clinics at All Children's Hospital in St. Pete, FL including an advanced psychopharmacology clinic working with medically complex children as well as diagnostic clinics for youth with pervasive developmental disorders, tic disorders and obsessive-compulsive disorder. Residents provide consultation to a variety of different schools and see continuity patients at USF's Sliver Child Development Center. Second year residents also see patients at an outpatient substance abuse treatment center. Research opportunities are available for interested residents.

Saundra Stock, MD
Associate Professor
Director, Child & Adolescent Training Program

Clinical Sites

1. Tampa General Hospital – TGH is a large multispecialty general hospital with a level one trauma center, burn unit and rehabilitation center. Residents provide consultation to a variety of pediatric services in the hospital. The neurology clinic is also at this location.
2. The Silver Child Development Center located at the University of South Florida Psychiatry Center is the site for general and specialty outpatient clinics. Residents will see patients at this site for a minimum of a half day per week throughout the two year program. Residents will conduct diagnostic assessments and see follow up patients employing both medication management as well as psychotherapy for patients under their care.
3. All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, FL is a pediatric multidisciplinary hospital with a variety of associated outpatient clinics. During the program, residents will see patients at the Pediatric Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic and the Rothman Center for Pediatric Neuropsychiatry. Residents will also perform psychiatric consultation for patients admitted to the hospital.
4. Hillsborough County Children's Crisis Center at Mental Health Care, Inc. – residents will see patients at the county's children's crisis center conducting urgent evaluations for children and families in crisis as well as caring for youth who are admitted tot eh crisis center. This is the only children's psychiatric inpatient facility in Hillsborough county serving families representing a wide range of demographics and diagnoses.
5. Dorothy Thomas Exceptional Center and Caminiti Exceptional Center - residents participate in consultations at two center based local schools. Residents will observe students in class and participate in multidisciplinary team discussions which include teachers and school staff.
6. Phoenix House – an outpatient substance abuse treatment center. Here residents see patients in the program for diagnostic evaluation and medication management as part of the multidisciplinary treatment team.

Faculty

• Mike Bengtson, M.D. - Division Chief
• Amit Razdan, M.D.
• Saundra Stock M.D.
• Mariann Suarez, Ph.D.
• Danielle Sutton, Ph.D.

• Jeffrey Alvaro, M.D
• Mark Cavitt, M.D.
• Tanya Murphy, M.D.
• Eric Storch, Ph.D.

Didactics

• Assessment seminar
• Development seminar
• Psychopathology and Psychopharmacology
• Psychodynamic psychotherapy
• Play Therapy
• Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy
• Interpersonal Psychotherapy
• Family Therapy
• Systems Based Practice
• Psychosomatic and Consultation
• Forensic Issues and Ethics in Child Psychiatry
• School-Based interventions
• Parent Management
• Clinical Case Conference
• Journal Club

How to Apply

1. Completed Psychiatry Post-Graduate Training Program Application 
2. A personal statement about your interest in child psychiatry
3. 3 letters of reference
4. updated CV
5. USMLE scores
6. Medical school transcript
7. Letter Attesting to General Psychiatry Board Eligibility - To be completed by your Training Director 

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