Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Year I (Post-graduate Year IV/V)
The first year of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) training is primarily dedicated to consultation and inpatient clinical experience in a hospital setting. Residents will spend two four-month rotations on inpatient units, with the majority of their time devoted to inpatient care and one four-month rotation in consultative experiences to pediatrics and the emergency room.
The four-month rotation at Payne Whitney Manhattan provides an inpatient experience on a mixed adolescent/adult unit, where the CAP resident cares for patients ranging in age from early adolescents to college students. During the time on the Payne Whitney Manhattan adolescent inpatient rotation, residents will also share in the consultation to medically ill pediatric inpatients and to the emergency room.
The four-month rotation at the Payne Whitney Westchester provides experience in inpatient care on three units: Nichols Cottage for children aged 5-12, 7-North for adolescents 12-17 years old, and Bard House an intensive day hospital program for children aged 6-12. A small percentage of the first year CAP resident's time at Payne Whitney Westchester will be devoted to child and adolescent outpatient group therapy and school consultation in the White Plains Public School System.
The four-month rotation at the Morgan Stanley Children's Hospital will be divided between Consultation Liaison (C/L) and the Children's Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program (CCPEP). The C/L service provides child psychiatry consultation and liaison to pediatric subspecialty services including Neurology, Cardiac Transplant, Pain Management, and Hematology/Oncology. The CCPEP is the only emergency psychiatric unit dedicated solely to children and adolescents. Each of these services is accompanied by on site clinical teaching including individual supervision, rounds, and/or case conferences.
The didactic curriculum for first year CAP residents begins with a summer introductory course aimed at providing them with the fundamentals to begin their clinical rotations. After Labor Day, first year residents come together for a half day every week of formal courses and seminars. First year didactic courses include Development and Psychopathology, Family Therapy and Continuous Case Conference. Child Psychaitry Grand Rounds are scheduled as part of the didactic day.
