The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship strives to foster trainee connection and well-being through a variety of methods including:

• program-supported social gatherings and twice yearly retreats with trainees across classes and faculty across disciplines
• the livable, affordable, artsy, and diverse city of Providence with ready access to beaches, farmers markets, bike paths, amazing restaurants, quaint rural New England, and the urban centers of Boston and New York
• a minimal call schedule
• a weekly Perspectives in Wellness and Practice group led by a psychologist with expertise in this practice
• program support for establishing and maintaining a practice of attending therapy, if desired, throughout training

Graduates of our program have gone on to pursue thriving careers in diverse practice locations and have also assumed leadership roles around the country in clinical practice, teaching, research, and administration.

Residents develop competency in the diagnosis and treatment of children and adolescents with emotional, physical, and developmental disorders. Didactics and interactive seminars emphasize all aspects of the field, including neuroscience and evidence-based treatments, ranging from psychopharmacology to a variety of both psychodynamic and time-limited, manualized psychotherapies. Clinical rotations are arranged in an orderly progression of increasing responsibility, and are supplemented by courses, seminars, individual supervision, and small group supervision. The program offers a wide exposure to all aspects of child psychiatry and includes additional elective experiences in areas that allow for the development of specific expertise. 

Throughout the two years of training, child and adolescent psychiatry trainees participate 3-6 hours per week of psychotherapy and individual supervision, and six protected hours per week of didactic seminars and Grand Rounds. There is direct faculty supervision in family and group therapy throughout the two years of training. The weekly curriculum covers normal child development, developmental psychopathology, diagnosis and formulation, and psychological, behavioral and pharmacological therapies. There are monthly case conferences and journal clubs, as well as quarterly division-wide morbidity and mortality conferences for interactive learning.  Seminars and other training experiences are frequently shared with trainees from other disciplines such as general psychiatry, pediatrics and psychology. Priority is placed on all educational activities, with both the training program and supervising attendings committed to protecting time for teaching and supervision.