Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Curriculum
Lehigh Valley Health Network (LVHN) is an advanced tertiary care network that has a longstanding tradition of quality team medical education. There is a long track record of medical student teaching, training and education within both the psychiatry department as well as other departments.
Fellowship program will be led by Program Director Dhana Ramasamy, MD. Fellows also will learn from our dedicated faculty members who have expertise. PGY-1 year consists of 13 four-week blocks, and the PGY-2 year is a continual clinic for 12 months.
PGY-1 Rotations
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Emergency Psychiatry |
1 block |
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Consultation Liaison Psychiatry |
1 block |
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Pediatric Medicine/Toxicology |
1 block |
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Specialty Pediatrics-Endo/Adol Medicine |
1 block |
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Pediatric Neurology |
1 block |
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Neurodevelopmental/Electives |
1 block |
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Inpatient Child Psychiatry |
1 block |
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Partial Hospitalization |
2 blocks |
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Inpatient Adolescent Psychiatry |
4 blocks |
PGY-2 Rotations
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Ambulatory Care 2.5-3 days/week |
12 months |
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Community Psychiatry 1.5 days/week |
9 months |
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Elective/Research 1 day/week |
3 months |
Fellows will participate in the following programs and have options for electives based on their career goals and preferences.
- Inpatient adolescent unit
- Psychiatric emergency services
- Adolescent partial hospitalization program
- Consult liaison psychiatry
- Inpatient child unit
- General pediatrics
- Pediatric neurology
- Pediatric endocrinology
- Adolescent medicine
- Toxicology
- Pediatric sleep lab
- LVHN day program
- Community psychiatry
- Developmental assessments
- LVPG Down Syndrome Medical Clinic
Teaching conferences
The psychiatry program at LVHN provides a full array of educational experiences for its fellows. Fellows will have a dedicated half-day per week for learning. This time will include group supervision during which they will present cases to their faculty supervisor. It will also include a monthly journal club and a monthly patient-care conference, which are both led by fellows and supervised by faculty members. Finally, it will include a weekly educational lecture series provided by faculty.
Additionally, the department of psychiatry holds monthly grand rounds in which local and national speakers are invited to present on relevant topics in the field. Twice per year, the department holds morbidity and mortality conferences to review recurrent patterns that contributed to adverse patient care and discuss possible corrective actions.
Didactics
PGY-1 and PGY-2 have didactics on Wednesdays from noon-5 p.m.