About the Program

The Fellowship 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). Three residents per year are accepted into the program. 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.

What to Expect 

The second year of the training is all outpatient care. Fellows participate in an advanced psychopharmacology clinic at John Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg working with medically complex youth as well as providing consultation to hospital inpatient teams.  Second year fellows also see patients at a community mental health center throughout the year. Fellows have rotations in school consultation and an outpatient intensive substance treatment program. Research opportunities are available for interested fellows.

Gracepoint Children’s Crisis Stabilization Unit in Tampa. Fellows will see patients at Hillsborough county’s children’s crisis center conducting urgent evaluations for children and families in crisis as well as caring for youth who are admitted to the crisis center. This facility serves children from a range of socioeconomic backgrounds including children with Medicaid or no insurance the majority of whom are brought for assessment on an involuntary hold. Fellows work in concert with an interdisciplinary team providing psychiatric assessments and crisis intervention services

Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital in St. Petersburg, FL is a pediatric multidisciplinary hospital with a variety of associated outpatient clinics. Fellows are at this site one to two days per week during their second year. Fellows perform psychiatric consultation for patients admitted to the hospital and see patients in the Pediatric Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic. The outpatient clinic specializes in psychopharmacology for youth with complex medical and psychiatric disorders.

Northside Behavioral Health is a community mental center in Tampa located close to USF’s campus. Second year fellows will conduct psychiatric evaluations for youth being served at this site and interfacing with a multidisciplinary team to create treatment recommendations. Fellows will have the opportunity to co-lead groups for families that have experienced trauma as well as provide parent management training.

The Silver Child Development Center located at the University of South Florida Psychiatry Center is the site for general and specialty outpatient clinics. Fellows will see patients at this site for a minimum of a half-day per week throughout the two-year program. Fellows will conduct diagnostic assessments and see follow up patients employing both medication management as well as psychotherapy for patients under their care.

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