Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Fast Track

Vanderbilt is excited to offer our Child Psychiatry Integrated Training track. This program is a five year integrated program with the following unique features above and beyond the exposure that all of our residents receive in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry:

PGY1:

  • Career Development: Work with Child Faculty supervisor to identify an area of interest and mentor within Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
  • Clinical: (can include up to)
    • 1-2 months of General Pediatrics
    • 1 month of Pediatric Emergency Medicine
    • 1 month of Pediatric Neurology
  • Advising: Supervision by Child Faculty

PGY2:

  • Career Development: 
    • Work with Child Faculty mentor on planning clinical and research electives.
  • Clinical: 
    • 1 Month Child CL
  • Advising: 
    • Identify areas of potential research, collaboration with mentor

PGY3:

  • Career Development: 
    • ½ day dedicated elective time for research or clinical interest
    • Research elective opportunities in autism, anxiety, substance abuse and more
  • Clinical: 
    • Clinical elective opportunities including autism, consult-liaison, outpatient child psychiatry and education-based psychiatry
  • Advising:
    • Continued work with Child faculty focused on building lasting clinical and research experiences that will bridge residency and fellowship training.

PGY4/5:

  • Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship