Fellows will see patients at Manatee 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. Located in Bradenton, 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.

Fellows see patients for evaluation and medication management at this Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC). Fellows provide care to families being seen within this system in concert with an interdisciplinary team including primary care  providers, case managers and therapists.

This clinic located on USF’s main campus in Tampa provides consultation to schools that are having difficulty managing children in the classroom environment. Fellows participate in assessments and team meetings. This site conducts many autism evaluations and residents will participate in specialized evaluations including the ADOS.

A pediatric multidisciplinary hospital with a variety of associated outpatient clinics. Fellows are at this site several days per week for portions of the first year while working in the Eating Disorder clinic as well as pediatric neurology, genetics and developmental pediatrics. In their second year, fellows spend one to two days per week seeing patients in the Pediatric Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic and they can perform psychiatric consultation for patients admitted to the main hospital. The outpatient clinic specializes in psychopharmacology for youth with complex medical and psychiatric disorders. Fellows also work in the Sleep Medicine clinic during their second year. Electives in wide variety of services are available at this site (e.g. additional CL time, diabetes, pain management, child life or others based on fellow interests).

Located on the University of South Florida’s main campus in Tampa. Fellows will see patients at this site for a minimum of a half-day per week for 1 year as a continuity clinic. Fellows will conduct diagnostic assessments and see follow up patients employing both medication management as well as psychotherapy for patients under their care.

This center offers an integrated practice of clinical care for individuals with obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), autism spectrum disorders, tic disorders, PANDAS, trichotillomania, learning disorders, and body dysmorphic disorder that is all-encompassing and multi-disciplinary, from diagnosis and evidence-based treatment to education, research and outreach. Fellows work at this site one day per week during their second year performing diagnostic evaluations and providing ongoing patient treatment.

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.

The primary care consultation is one day per week rotation for second year fellows to practice conducting psychiatric mental health assessments of children and adolescents in the primary care setting utilizing the consultation-only model of care. Fellows gain experience assessing youth and meeting with families in person with the pediatric resident or faculty. The fellow will collaborate in real time with the pediatrician to provide evidence-based psychopharmacologic and other treatment recommendations to the pediatrician. The pediatrician will continue to provide care and follow up for their patient.