Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Program Description

The residency is fully accredited by ACGME and offers residents excellent clinical, educational, and research opportunities. The two-year residency has a university base and offers urban-suburban, public-private, and academic-community perspectives.

Program Leadership
Program Director and Associate Chair for Education Beth Ann Brooks, M.D. has more than 30 years experience in academic and administrative psychiatry. She was a member of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology's Committee on Certification in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry from 1996-2001 and the ACGME's Residency Review Committee for Psychiatry from 1994-1999 and again in 2001.  Currently she is a director of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology and chairs its Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Steering Committee.

Faculty
Clinical supervision and didactic instruction are provided by Board certified child and adolescent psychiatrists. Voluntary faculty supervise community rotations and clinical electives. Research mentors who are investigating childhood neuropsychiatric disorders and brain imaging are readily available to teach within the program.

Facilities
The major clinical sites include Hawthorn Center, a State of Michigan hospital for minors in Northville; University Psychiatric Center, a WSU faculty practice site with a multidisciplinary mental health services program for children and adolescents in Livonia; Children’s Hospital of Michigan within the Detroit Medical Center; Livonia and Redford Union Public Schools; and The Wayne County Juvenile Detention Facility in Detroit. Experience with adolescent chemical dependency occurs at Growth Works in Canton, community psychiatry at North Central Health Center in Detroit, and day care consultation at Schoolcraft College Children's Center in Livonia.

Clinical Rotations
Year I consists of 6 months inpatient followed by 6 months in the outpatient clinic, which includes experience evaluating preschoolers. There are two sequences in Year II:  pediatric consultation, child neurology, and continuous outpatients; and outpatient, school and forensic consultation, and experience in community psychiatry and chemical dependency. Up to 2 months are available for clinical and/or research electives. There is no overnight call in either year.

Didactic Curriculum
There are separate didactic sequences for Year I and Year II, with 2 monthly case conferences in common. Residents are expected to attend weekly departmental grand rounds. There is a required scholarly paper focusing on an evidence-based topic during Year II.

Evaluation Methods
Residents take the PRITE and Child PRITE, and there is an annual clinical skills examination. There are regular residents’ meetings with the chief resident as well as an annual residents’ retreat. The Residency Training Committee has resident representatives.

Entrance Requirements
Applicants must have completed 3 or more years as a resident in good standing in an ACGME-accredited general psychiatry program; all content requirements for general psychiatry, including the psychotherapy competencies, must be completed prior to matriculation. We participate in the Child Psychiatry Match; this is a paper application to individual programs and then a December 14, 2011 rank order list via computer to NRMP. Interviews usually are scheduled for Fridays between August and November. We will rank only those applicants who have passed USMLE or COMLEX 3, but we will consider interviewing those applicants whose examination results are pending.

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