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The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship is a 2-year training program offered through the Department of Psychiatry of Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth and affiliated with Dartmouth Health Pediatrics and the Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center.
Typically, residents enter the child and adolescent psychiatry program after the Postgraduate Year PGY-3 or PGY-4 year of adult psychiatry residency.
Mission
Our training mission is to prepare future leaders in meeting the diverse psychiatric needs of children and families in our region and nationally with expertise in collaborative care and innovative models of service especially to rural settings.
Program aims
The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program aims are to:
- Ensure Child and Adolescent Psychiatry fellows are competent in developmental psychiatric evaluations and broad evidence-based treatment approaches for the entire age span of childhood, adolescence, and transition-age into adulthood.
- Leverage the inpatient experience in Adolescent Psychiatry at Dartmouth to provide Fellows robust experiences in general psychiatric inpatient work and specialty work in neuro-immune related psychiatric disorders such as PANS/PANDAS and other complex medical-psychiatric presentations.
- Ensure all incoming child fellows receive exposure to substance abuse and eating disorders treatment approaches, as well as to formal research principles, quality improvement methodology, and have the opportunity for hands-on involvement in projects.