Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Columbia

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there are

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you know several things that i feel like

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make our program a good choice an

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exceptional choice for

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child psychiatry besides just choosing

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child psychiatry as a field which is an

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amazing choice in itself

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a lot of programs tend to focus on like

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psychopharmacology but we actually

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really do

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focus on psychotherapy and

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psychopharmacology and

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working with patients in both directions

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to help them

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you know achieve a good result our

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residents have enough patience and a big

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enough caseload to

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to learn and to grow as a doctor and to

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feel comfortable working with patients

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but at the same time

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we keep it at a level where they can

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still

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you know read about the patients learn

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about the patients explore different

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things that they need to explore to help

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that patient and so

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we have a really good balance of um

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allowing them to learn while getting

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them to work

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we have a really strong concern for

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their well-being in all areas

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i think my level of autonomy progressed

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a lot quicker than i thought it was

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going to

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and i think the the attendings do a

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great job of

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treating us where we should be and

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letting us kind of have as much autonomy

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as we want to take on

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to a certain extent a unique thing that

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we have in this program

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is the ability to do some moonlighting

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and i think that also

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added to my autonomy as a pjy5 i've been

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moonlighting since pgy2

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and i really feel like that's going to

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help me in the long run because

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i've been doing some decision making you

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know you know what i'm

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having these moonlighting shifts that

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you know maybe i wouldn't necessarily

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come up in my day to day of my training

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especially if there's an attending right

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there

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to maybe help me with that answer and so

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this kind of pushes

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a little more responsibility on you of

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you're the one in charge you're the one

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making the decision you can't just

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look you're attending for the easy way

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out maybe that's allowed me to kind of

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gain confidence in myself as a provider

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one of our affiliate sites is the south

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carolina department of juvenile justice

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we're with dr getz our assistant

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director over there

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and we get a lot of experience doing

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court evaluations

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for different youth and minors that

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really come from all different parts of

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the state we travel around to

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a variety of the different elementary

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schools in that district

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and seeing the different grade levels

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some of the different

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work that they do as far as iep

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individualized education plans and 504s

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they also do work in the children's

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cancer center

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and work at the metropolitan

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children's advocacy center which works

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with children who've had potential abuse

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in their history so and have the

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experience in our outpatient clinic

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where they're doing outpatient

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evaluations med management

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um psychotherapy so um i think that

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when you come here you're going to get

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the opportunity to work in a lot of

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different places and you're going to

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really understand and know

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where you kind of fit in and what you

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would want to do in the future child

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psychiatry is

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a key to being a better psychiatrist

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overall

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you