Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship is a two-year fully accredited program which can be entered after the third or fourth year of residency training. There are three fellows in each year. The program is eclectic with a broad-based curriculum which approaches the child from a biopsychosocial viewpoint.
The first year of the fellowship program is spent at a residential center and in the outpatient clinic. The first year is devoted to gaining the fundamentals of child treatment. Our outpatient clinic is a community mental health center with a large clientele of patients of various ethnic backgrounds and a variety of diagnoses. Our clinic also contains the oldest therapeutic preschool in Los Angeles and a large 0 to 5 program with infant mental health training, so the exposure to young children is excellent.
The second year of fellowship is spent in consultation services on and off site in specialty clinics and in continuing in outpatient clinic. In this year the fellow is able to expand his or her skills to more complicated cases and apply skills to other settings. Rotations are on Cedars pediatric service and the Shriner's burn and orthopedic hospital, custody evaluations at the Los Angeles Superior Family Court downtown, and school consultation at a nearby school site. Specialty clinic rotation this year includes ADD Clinic, Psychopharmacology Clinic which works in neurology and developmental pediatrics, Early Childhood Clinic and Telepsychiatry Clinics which serves mentally retarded and autistic patients at rural California teleclinics.
There are courses in child development, psychopathology, practice guidelines, treatment strategies, psychopharmacology course and seminar, genetics for psychiatry, child research seminar, and psychoeducational seminar. There are observation courses in individual play therapy and diagnostic assessment of children 0 to 5 and in family therapy.
Supervision consists of two individual and two group supervisions per week in outpatient as well as rotation-specific supervision.
Fellows are encouraged to see patients in both short-term as well as long-term therapy, and supervisors, some of whom are child analysts, are available to support training which enables a dynamic understanding of the child. Many fellows finishing this program go into private practice in the Beverly Hills area.
For more information about the child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship, please contact:
| Roxy Szeftel, MD, Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry |
| Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |
| 8730 Alden Dr., Room W128 |
| Los Angeles, CA 90048 |
| Phone: (310) 423-3564 |
| Fax: (310) 423-0114 |
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