First Year
Our call covers the psychiatry consult/liaison service at Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta (CHOA) Arthur M. Blank Hospital. We do not take call for any inpatient psychiatric units. Call is almost entirely during the first year.
Fellows are on call for one week at a time approximately every four weeks. Call is from home on weekdays. Rounding occurs in the hospital on weekends.
Weeknights: Home call 5pm-8am. Answer questions by phone to support pediatric attendings and residents in the care of youth on the psychiatric C/L service at Arthur M. Blank Hospital. Average of three phone calls for the week, typically during normal waking hours.
Weekend days: Round on new psychiatry consults and high risk follow ups on Saturday and Sunday. Arrival time is flexible. On average, fellows are in the hospital for about four hours each day.