Clinical Years

• The program's didactic curriculum is organized to teach the basic and clinical sciences of infant, child, and adolescent psychiatry. This includes examining multiple theoretical frameworks as well as pertinent conceptual issues that may not arise in clinical rotations.
• In most seminars, instruction is interdisciplinary in an effort to promote learning, enhance dialogue, and offer multiple perspectives.

Child Psychiatry-1st Year

• The emphasis during the first year of the fellowship is on development and psychopathology throughout the life cycle. There is a focus on understanding illness and adaptation in the context of the family.
• This early orientation in the psychiatric component of the residency to thinking in terms of psychosocial growth and developmental psychopathology facilitates consolidation of the identity as a "child and family" oriented practitioner.
• The resident rotates through inpatient child, adolescent, and day-treatment adolescent psychiatry, and the Developmental Neuropsychiatry Program at Southeast Louisiana State Hospital.
• In addition, they spend 6 months in a combined consultation role with the C/L service in the Tulane/Lakeside Women & Children’s Hospital and Infant Psychiatry with the Tulane Infant Team.
• The resident also begins to build their outpatient practice at the TUHC outpatient clinic.
  

Child Psychiatry-2nd Year

• During the second year of the fellowship, the emphasis is on consolidating child and adolescent psychiatry experience.
• The year is focused on child and adolescent psychiatry outpatient, school consultation, forensic psychiatry, and community mental health clinical rotations.
• The emphasis in these assignments is on continuity of care, the development of consultation-liaison skills, the consolidation of evaluation skills, and continued experience in short- and long-term individual, group, and family psychotherapy.
• An elective in either research or a specialized clinical area is available for 6 months during this year. Opportunities in clinical research abound. Other opportunities for more clinical exposure to young children, eating disorders, etc., are also available.
  

• In their elective time, child fellows are encouraged to develop a scholarly project.
• Additionally, PGY-5's may serve as liaisons to pediatric units, subspecialty team, or clinics in order to further consolidate their pediatric knowledge and skills.
• Second year trainees continue to attend the child and adolescent psychiatry seminars and receive supervision for clinical assignments and long-term therapy training as previously described. A basic proficiency in research methods in the clinical and behavioral sciences related to psychiatry is required.  Fellows are expected to present child and adolescent psychiatry grand rounds during this year and may collaborate on research projects or other scholarly endeavors.