Program Overview & Goals

APPLICATION PROCEDURE

CHILD & ADOLESCENCE
FELLOWSHIP APPLICATION
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To apply, please submit the following materials:

• A completed application form
• CV
• Medical school transcript
• A statement of professionals goals and interests
• All documents pertaining to licensure
• Three (3) letters of recommendation from persons familiar with your current work. One should be from your current training director.

Interviews begin in September and continue through December of the year prior to anticipated entry into the program.

Applications for a residency in Child & Adolescent Psychiatry may be obtained from:

Barbara Anthonson, Secretary, Child & Adolescent Training Program
Department of Psychiatry
SUNY Upstate Medical University
750 E. Adams Street
Syracuse, NY 13210
anthonsb@upstate.edu
315-464-3175
FAX: 315-464-3134

The Child & Adolescent Residency Program at SUNY Upstate Medical University is fully accredited by the A.C.G.M.E. The residency program provides a core of clinical, didactic, and research experiences necessary for compressive training for child and adolescent psychiatrists. The faculty help to guide the resident's experience and deepen clinical sophistication through supervision, by acting as role models demonstrating high-level clinicianship, by their activities in the research domain, and by their involvement in professional activities.

The residency program offers two positions each in the first and second year of training. A variety of both inpatient and outpatient experiences offer trainees opportunities to work with children and families.

• Expand the medical knowledge base to include sophisticated knowledge of human development systems theory (context) so that development of the child is seen as co-dependent with the growth and development of the parents.
  • Residents will acquire knowledge of the family, the arena of psychological growth.
  • The program will teach residents about children in their developmental context.
  • Residents will graduate with treatment skills related not only to children, but to in-depth work with families and other crucial systems. The result is a psychiatrist with sophisticated understanding of children, adolescents and families in sickness and in health.
  • Residents will possess mature clinical judgment and thorough knowledge of the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of psychiatric problems and disorders of childhood, as well as common pediatric medical and neurological disorders which relate to the practice of child psychiatry.
    
• Graduate residents with skills that enable them to provide leadership through consultation, supervision, and teaching for the advocacy of children, adolescents and families within the medical profession and the community at large.
  
• Educate residents in generally accepted patterns of thinking about and treating children, adolescents and families. And to encourage a thoughtful, questioning approach to clinical work. Between the two processes a pattern of beliefs, values and mature clinical responsibility emerges.
  
• Develop in residents a balance between knowledge and caring that leads to competent treatment and a satisfying professional life, grounded in a mature professional ego.
  
• Create an awareness of the impact of work with children and families on the professional's personal life and to guide residents in dealing with stresses.
  
• Develop knowledge of research, research methodology, and broad acquaintance with the scientific and professional literature related to child psychiatry. This will be accomplished through participation in Grand Rounds, Journal Clubs, seminars and ongoing departmental research. Residents will be required to prepare a paper for presentation at Grand Rounds or a national meeting, as well as to submit one article for publication during their two years of Residency.
  
• Develop a stimulating clinical and intellectual milieu that will lead graduates toward careers in academic child psychiatry.