Welcome to Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
We have everything that you would expect of a major academic center, from advanced inpatient units, diverse specialty outpatient clinics, a wide array of clinical and basic science research labs and cutting-edge institutes for innovation. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center, a modern, thriving academic medical and research facility is situated alongside of Dartmouth College in a beautiful area of the upper Connecticut River Valley in northern New England. With the Vermont Green mountains to the west and the White Mountains of New Hampshire to the east, and major cities like Boston and Burlington within easy striking distance, we offer a welcoming, collegial atmosphere with unsurpassed quality of outdoor life.
Program information
Introduction
Welcome to Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship program! Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center and Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth is the largest academic medical center system north of Boston, located in the beautiful upper Connecticut River valley. We are a medium-size fellowship program (“Goldilocks zone” with 6 Child Fellows) within a large 2 state (Vermont and New Hampshire) rural region. Dartmouth College, the smallest of the Ivy League schools, provides a unique cultural and intellectual hub and a rich diversity of resources in our area. Our community is safe, family-oriented with abundant outdoor activities available year-round. We emphasize tailoring our training experiences to our fellows' unique interests, where learning the art, craft, and science of child psychiatry can be pursued with strong collegial support. Our program has a close-knit, family feel where fellows work closely with faculty in providing subspecialty care across a variety of clinical experiences (e.g., PANS/PANDAS, Autism Care, Neurodevelopmental, Psychotherapy, Neuropsychological testing, Inpatient med-psych expertise, Psychopharmacology, and Consultation-Liaison, to name a few). We were innovators in Tele-psychiatry and have developed unique models of care owing to our rural location. Our fellows have excellent opportunities to develop expertise as collaborative consultants with pediatric and primary care colleagues. We have excellent resources for those fellows seeking research opportunities or with interests in population health, including: The Dartmouth Institute for Healthcare Policy Research, Thayer Engineering School, Tuck Business School and our Center for Technology and Behavioral Health.
There are opportunities through our Leadership in Preventative Medicine Program to pursue an MPH simultaneously with Child Psychiatry training at no cost to you. We have historically had an extraordinarily diverse group of Child Fellows who go on to pursue a variety of careers in academic child psychiatry, research, further fellowship training in Forensics, Autism and Addictions, as well as hospital or group-based practice. There are many opportunities in the local region for fellows to pursue their careers after training. Are you looking for a high- volume, high- intensity, high-stress program in a big city setting? Then look further, because that is not us. However, if you are looking for a program that offers a broad training experience in the art, craft and science of child psychiatry, that emphasizes quality in learning, time for patient care, and has close working relationships/mentoring with faculty, then we just might be the program for you. We would be happy to speak with you about the many exciting opportunities here at Dartmouth, so please feel free to reach out to us for more information.
Rotation schedule
CAP-1 Year
Off-site rotations include: a 1 month rotation at the Brattleboro Retreat; and Development Rotations at Dartmouth Child Care Center and the Bernice A. Ray School.
On-site Clinics/Rotations include: 8 months outpatient child psychiatry; a 3 month inpatient Adolescent Psychiatric Unit Rotation at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center; as well as additional on-site rotations in Pediatric Neurology, Child Development Clinic, PANS/PANDAS Clinic, and Psychotherapy.
CAP-2 Year
Rotate off-site twice a month at West Central Behavioral Health or Sununu Youth Services Center; Brief off-site rotations at Cambridge Eating Disorder Center in Concord, New Hampshire and Second Growth Substance Abuse in Hartford, Vermont. On-site clinics include: Consultation and Evaluation Clinic, Psychotherapy, Autism Clinics, and more. Year two is the year to do an elective should you choose to do so and to complete your Senior Project (typically a Grand Rounds level presentation on a topic of your interest presented to the group at the end of the year).
Working at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
We offer competitive benefits, stipends, insurance, and assistance programs.
We have a beautiful, modern, well-equipped and resourced medical center with free parking and many amenities in house.
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Conferences
Every Tuesday at 8 am the Psychiatry department hosts Grand Rounds for all of its sections. Psychiatry also hosts a department wide Journal Club at noon on Fridays. When meeting in person for Journal Club, Psychiatry hosts a light lunch. In addition to these, Thursdays are dedicated to Didactics for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. We try to do an off-site field trip of sorts to another institution or program to see how they practice and educate, or to other locations to see how they provide care. Another special didactic event we hold twice a year is an Ethics Case Conference that has quickly become a favorite of all the Fellows, as well as the PGY-3 Residents who join us.
A video message from alumni - Dr. Larry Mitnaul
Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency (LPMR)
- Builds on TDI strengths in outcomes research, improvement, population health and institutional commitment to quality, safety, and value
- MPH degree from TDI – tuition paid by program!
- Opportunity to lead change and improvement at Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center
- Two month governmental public health experience
- Dedicated faculty coach; teaching opportunities; unique multi-specialty resident/fellow/faculty group
- May incorporate research in one year of program (3 + 1)
- continue clinical work
- moonlighting allowed
- Graduates are in demand and employers are very interested in their mix of clinical skills plus improvement and change knowledge and experience
- Visit the LPMR web page, email Tina Foster at tina.c.foster@hitchcock.org or contact an alumni member to learn more!
Orientation, simulation and skills labs
We have a Patient Safety Training Center, also known as the "Sim Center."
There are skills labs, including suturing, laparoscopic and robotics training and more. While the Sim Center offers many training opportunities, the one most utilized by our fellows is renewal of their BLS there. If a fellows is interested in utilizing more open opportunities there, electives can be explored.
Match communication code of conduct
We follow the NRMP guidelines for the Match process. We will not contact you but are happy to hear from you and to answer questions you may have that are not answered during the application and interview process.
Contact us
Phone: 603-650-4523
rebecca.d.roberts@hitchcock.org, Program Coordinator
craig.l.donnelly@hitchcock.org, Program Director
Life in the Upper Valley
The Upper Connecticut River Valley area of central New Hampshire and Vermont includes the towns of Hanover and Lebanon, New Hampshire. Known as "The Upper Valley," this region attracts people from around the world for its scenic beauty.
The Upper Valley area offers a wide variety of cultural and recreational activities for people of all ages.