The two-year training program in child & adolescent psychiatry at the University of Colorado School of Medicine is comprehensive, involving: consultation, diagnostic evaluation, and treatment of children from birth to 18 years and their caregivers. The settings include outpatient clinics, inpatient units for children and adolescents with emotional disorders, a rich consultation/liaison service, a child psychiatry emergency department, neuro psychiatric care unit, and eating disorder unit. Training sites are located within the Children's Hospital Colorado, one of the top 10 children's hospitals in the country, Denver Health, and the University of Colorado. Supervision is offered in intensive individual psychotherapies, planned short-term therapy, crisis intervention, infant psychiatry, and parent, family, group, psychopharmacologic, and other therapeutic modalities. In the second year of the training program, significant time is set aside weekly for individualized educational electives.
The Division offers training programs for general psychiatry residents, medical students, psychologists, social workers, pediatricians, nurses, and other categories of students. It utilizes resources of the Department of Psychiatry, the Department of Pediatrics and other departments of the University of Colorado. The faculty and staff of the Division are actively involved in a number of research studies in which child psychiatry residents and other trainees can participate. Arrangements for full training in child psychoanalysis can be made through affiliated psychoanalytic institutes.1 Psychiatry residents traditionally are selected by the child and adolescent psychiatry program selection committee for ranking within the National Resident Match Program (NRMP) for admission at the conclusion of the postgraduate third or fourth year. The two year training program in child an adolescent psychiatry is a comprehensive program involving consultation, diagnostic evaluation, treatment, and systems based practice collaboration, of children from birth to 18 years, their parents/caregivers and families.2 A variety of clinical settings are employed to allow the resident to gain competency in all six areas of competency. Clinical settings include an outpatient clinic, psychiatric day hospital settings for traumatized preschool children, developmentally disabled children, mentally ill children and medically ill children with co morbid mental illness; intensive patient experiences or child and adolescent inpatient units and a residential treatment setting and consultation liaison programming in pediatric inpatient, pediatric outpatient, and systems of care sites in school, community, mental health and outpatient setting, providing services to children involved in child welfare, developmental disabilities, and juvenile justice. Approximately a day weekly is devoted each year to an intensive curriculum encompassing developmental, diagnostic, treatment, administrative, ethical, and research topics essential to an effective practice of child and adolescent psychiatry.3
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