Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Program

Mission

The overall goal of the Child and Adolescent Fellowship Training Program at the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center School of Medicine in Lubbock is to have each fellow develop the necessary knowledge, skills, and attitudes to enjoy a productive career as a psychiatrist. In order to achieve this goal, the fellow is active in a progressive and contemporary series of clinical, educational, and scholarly experiences designated to continuously enhance clinical abilities. Biological, psychological, and social factors are integrated into didactic as well as clinical teachings in order to assist the fellows conceptualize, the constellation of signs and symptoms of mental health disorders in a comprehensive integrated systems perspective.

Each fellow participates in a variety of clinical and educational activities including Case Conferences, Journal Clubs, standardized clinical skills examinations, and scholarly activity. Fellows attend a half-day per week of didactic courses/activities that are prearranged and scheduled prior to the beginning of the academic year. Didactic teaching provides an augmentation of clinical training and education. The didactic activities are designated to integrate the art and science of teaching, learning, and practicing in all core areas of psychiatric training. Many didactics are interdisciplinary and collaborative, and they are taught by a wide range of mental health experts to provide a wide range of clinical knowledge and perspectives. The mainstay of training, as in all clinical education programs, is supervision in patient care. Fellows receive a significant depth of supervision in therapy, assessment, medication management, child abuse, justice-involved youth, adolescent medicine and developmental pediatrics, first episode psychosis, adolescent substance abuse, pain management, and more.