The first year of training focuses on the evaluation and treatment of children and adolescents who are hospitalized at Bradley and Hasbro Hospitals. Each resident spends eight weeks each on the child inpatient unit and on the adolescent inpatient unit. Additionally, the resident spends two months on the Child Psychiatry consultation/liaison service at Hasbro Hospital. Two months are devoted to the Crisis Intervention Clinic/ Urgent Care Rotation at Bradley Hospital and two months to the Child Psychiatry Emergency Department at Hasbro Children’s Hospital. Trainees rotate for one month with the nationally recognized Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities. Each trainee additionally spends one month on Hasbro 6 inpatient med/psych and one month in the pediatric neurology outpatient clinic. Residents provide treatment to patients that represent diverse clinical disorders and include children of all ages. The principles and practices of a variety of assessment and treatment methods are taught on each rotation. The resident is a member of a multidisciplinary treatment team and learns about multi-modal treatments.  

Psychotherapy training and experience is also emphasized throughout the first year through a weekly half-day outpatient psychotherapy clinic as well as weekly individual supervision and group didactics.

Sample Year 1 Schedule

*NOTE: We use a 4-week block system, which gives 13 blocks rather than 12 months

The second year curriculum is determined collaboratively with the program directors, which allows trainees to create individualized tracks based on their specific career goals as well as upon identified gaps in their clinical education. Primary teaching sites include inpatient, partial hospital, outpatient, and community mental health settings. Outpatient psychotherapy/ psychopharmacology may also be emphasized. Trainees are required to have experience in school and community psychiatry, as well as a half-day per week psychopharmacology clinic. Clinical rotations in the second year provide numerous opportunities for sub-specialty experiences under direct supervision by a Brown University faculty child psychiatrist. These may be organized into block or longitudinal schedules.

Below are two examples of the many possible Year 2 schedules that trainees may individualize in collaboration with their supervisors:

A) Sample "block" schedule

B) Sample longitudinal/"immersion" schedule