Education
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
The Training Program
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
During the first year of their child psychiatry training, fellows work on an acute crisis stabilization unit at a community mental health center for four months. Fellows participate in a number of outpatient clinics at USF including genetics, early steps, parent-child interaction training and have a continuity clinic at the Silver Child Development Center (SCDC). Fellows participate in a CBT clinic at USF Rothman Center in St. Petersburg as well as training with an interdisciplinary team at Johns Hopkins All Children’s Hospital (JHACH) Eating Disorders clinic in St. Petersburg. Fellows rotate for 8 months at the James A Haley VA proving Parent-Management Training to veteran parents and spend 8 months learning how to treat substance use disorders at Cove Behavioral Health for adolescents, transitional age youth and pregnant women. Additionally, fellows satisfy their training requirements for pediatric neurology during the first year. All fellows have protected didactic time on Thursday mornings, and 1-hour of protected supervision time each week.The second year of the training is all outpatient care. Fellows participate in an advanced year-long continuity psychopharmacology clinic at JHACH working with medically complex youth as well as providing consultation to hospital inpatient teams. They also rotate at JHACH Sleep Medicine clinic and can facilitate an overnight sleep study. Second year fellows maintain their continuity clinic for medication management and therapy at SCDC, enabling them to follow the same patients for up to 2 years. Fellows have rotations in school consultation and two blocks of elective time. Unique to our program is a consultation-only primary care integrated psychiatry year-long rotation for the second-year fellows. The fellows are embedded in pediatric primary care clinics to provide real-time psychiatric consultation and teaching to pediatric residents and attendings. They also teach a parent management training course called “Hot Docs” to parents in the community. Research opportunities are available for interested fellows.
Training Affiliates
A residential program serving high-risk girls in the juvenile justice system, ages 14 to 18, who are in need of comprehensive mental health services. Fellows work a half day per week for four months in their first year conducting psychiatric assessments and medication management and learning about pediatric forensics.
Provides intensive substance abuse treatment to adolescents, adults and pregnant women. Substance use and substance use disorders are common co-morbid conditions for adolescents and transitional age youth with psychiatric conditions often requiring specific intervention. The fellow at Cove will conduct evaluations of adolescents and transitional age youth in the program who have a demonstrated substance use problem to assess for psychiatric co-morbid disorders. The fellow will work as a member of a multidisciplinary treatment team to provide assessment and medication management (including medication assisted treatment) for patients enrolled in the program.
Resources
Faculty - University of South Florida site
Leigh Ruth, M.D.
Saundra Stock, M.D.
Faculty - Johns Hopkins All Children's Hospital
Jeffrey Alvaro, M.D.
Mark Cavitt, M.D.
USF Rothman Center in St. Pete
Adam Lewin, Ph.D.
Didactics
The residents in the child and adolescent program attend a half-day per week of educational conferences on Thursday mornings. The didactic program is set on a two-year cycle allowing all residents in the program to attend conferences together. The didactic series includes:
- 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
For more information on current stipend and benefits, housestaff handbook, wellness programs and more, please visit USF Graduate Medical Education.
Requirements for Applicants
Residents must have completed at least three years of psychiatric training prior to entering the program and have passed the USMLE Step 3 exam. Residents also need to have successfully passed 2 adult CSEs to enter the program.
How to Apply
Interested applicants should submit the following:
- Apply through the National Resident Matching Program Electronic Residency Application Service (ERAS) website at www.nrmp.org
- Register for a National Resident Matching Program Number
After registering please submit material below through ERAS:
- ERAS application
- A personal statement about your interest in child psychiatry
- 3 letters of reference (including letter from Program Director with Attestation as below)
- Updated CV
- USMLE scores Medical school transcript
- ECFMG certificate, if international graduate
- USA Citizenship, Permanent Resident status or J-1 visa
Verification of General Psychiatry Board Eligibility:
- Letter Attesting to General Psychiatry Board Eligibility - To be completed by your Training Director including dates of successful adult CSE examinations.
Contact information:
Education Office
3515 E Fletcher Ave Tampa, FL 33613
Mathdany Clark - mnoel@usf.edu
(813) 974-5926