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Department of Behavioral Medicine and Psychiatry
Child and Adolescent Fellowship
Program Description
The Child and Adolescent fellowship program at West Virginia University is designed to offer a well balanced, well- rounded experience in prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of psychopathology in children and adolescents through exposure to normal and abnormal children and their families. Emphasis is placed on developing core competencies in Medical Knowledge, Patient Care, Practice-Based Learning, Interpersonal and Communication Skills, Systems-Based Practice and Professionalism. This two-year program prepares fellows for national boards. |
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Ben Lafferty, MD -Child Fellow
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The primary training site, Chestnut Ridge Center, is the psychiatric center for West Virginia University Hospitals (WVUH), located on the Robert C. Byrd Health Sciences Center campus. The hospital is a regional referral center providing fellows with the quantity and diversity of patient experience necessary for training. Other training sites include Children's Hospital at Ruby Memorial Hospital and Child Care Center, all part of WVUH. A formal curriculum is offered including supervision and rotations through inpatient, outpatient and day treatment services, consultation to courts, schools and community agencies. Fellows develop increasing competence in teaching administrative and clinical skills. Fellows will learn to function as a part of a multidisciplinary team working toward the BEST INTEREST OF THE CHILD.
| Level: PGY 4 |
Annual Stipend: $ 49,775 |
PGY5 Stipend: $50,860 |
| Positions: 2 |
Accredited by ACGME: Yes |
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| Application Deadline: November 15, 2008 |
Download APPLICATION |
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The multidisciplinary faculty includes adult and child psychiatrists, child psychologists, child social workers and experiential therapist. Fellows are supervised by Board Certified Child psychiatrists.
Required Rotations
First Year
- Adolescent Inpatient
- Youth Day Program
- Residential Treatment Program for Juvenile Adjudicated Substance Abusers.
- Pediatric Consultation/Liaison
- Outpatient
Second Year
- Outpatient
- School Consultation
- Family Assessment Clinic
- Consultation to general Pediatrics Clinic including Well Child Clinic
- Court Consults
- Pediatric Neurology
- Developmental Disabilities including Pervasive Development Disorders and Mental Retardation Clinic, Klingberg Center
- Community Mental Health Clinic
Second Year Electives
- Pediatric Consultation and Liaison
- Forensic Psychiatry
- Developmental Disabilities
- School Psychiatry Infant Psychiatry
- Research
- Community Psychiatry
- Psychological Assessments
- Inpatient acute adolescent unit
- Residential substance abuse unit
- Residential sex offenders unit
Didactic Lectures
Year One
Year Two
- Conference Series: Continuous Case Seminar
- Principles of Psychology: Child Psychiatry Research Seminar
- Social Psychiatry: Medical Ethics
- Social Psychiatry: Administrative Psychiatry and Practice Management
- Psychotherapy: Cognitive and Behavioral Therapy
- Psychotherapy: Psychodynamic Psychotherapy
- Psychotherapy: Other Therapies (Family, Group, Brief, Supportive, Interpersonal)
- Forensic Psychiatry: Child Abuse and Neglect
- Conference Series: Psychiatry Grand Rounds
- Conference Series: Psychotherapy Case Conference
- Conference Series: Child and Adolescent Case Conference
- Conference Series: Special Child Topics
- Conference Series: Consultation Liaison Case Conference
- Conference Series: Pediatric Grand Rounds
- Conference Series: Mock Oral Interview
- Conference Series: Research Retreat
- Psychopharmacology and Somatic Therapies: Advanced Psychopharmacology
Scholarly Activity
The fellows are required to participate in the annual off-campus two day Research Retreat where they choose a research project and a mentor and are required to present the outcomes at the School of Medicine’s Van Lier Research Day. The monthly Journal club encourages critical thinking and appreciation of research methods, and to review scientific data knowledgably. Grand Rounds, which occur weekly, also serve as a forum to interact with visiting speakers. Annual continuing medical education conference on child and adolescent psychopathology hosted by our department provides additional opportunities for learning. Research methods and scholarly activities are further enhanced via an abundance of seminar presentations led by our child psychologists, who are also the co directors of the Department’s Health Research Center.
Faculty
About Morgantown
Application and Interview
Applicants must have completed their third year of psychiatric residency prior to beginning the fellowship and be eligible to obtain a West Virginia license. Those currently in a residency program must be in good standing. Application deadline is November 15, 2008. Once a completed application with letters and transcripts is received, candidates will be contacted to arrange an interview. The Child Division will provide accommodations on the evening before the interview day. Please call Lova Oliver, 304-293-5251 for assistance in the application process.
Information about all WVU programs can be obtained from the Graduate Medical Education website.
Download Application
Address correspondence to:
Bharati S. Desai, MD
Director of Child Fellowship Program
West Virginia University School of Medicine
Department of Behavioral Medicine & Psychiatry
930 Chestnut Ridge Road
Morgantown, West Virginia 26505-2854
Telephone: 304-293-5251
Fax: 304-293-8724
E-mail: Lova Oliver at loliver@hsc.wvu.edu
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