Level: PGY-5 or higher
Positions: 1
Annual Stipend: $73,756 (PGY-5, 2022–2023)
Accreditation: ACGME
Mission Statement
The mission of the Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship Program is to prepare our fellows to become the next generation of leaders in clinical care, education, research and advocacy.
Clinical Experiences
The fellow will spend four months at each of the three primary sites: Emory University Hospital, Grady Memorial Hospital, and the Atlanta VA Medical Center. These clinical sites include training in psychiatric consultation and management of medical and surgical inpatients and outpatients. Each medical center offers opportunities to work with a special population of patients in a variety of clinical settings (oncology and transplant patients at Emory Hospital; HIV/AIDS patients at Grady IDP; and patients with PTSD at the VA).
Didactic Experiences
There are weekly seminars and teaching conferences covering the full range of psychosomatic medicine topics throughout the year. In addition, to specific didactic sessions for the CL fellow, there are didactics and teaching conferences that are done in collaboration with Emory’s Geriatric, Addiction and Child fellowship programs as well as the Atlanta VA Quality Scholar’s program. In 2017, the fellowship program in collaboration with Vanderbilt, UNC, UCSD, Hartford, Chicago and Michigan has started a shared seminar series in which we present and discuss topics specific to consultation liaison psychiatry. In addition, there are daily teaching rounds where the emphasis is on diagnostic and interviewing skills, case presentations, short-term therapy, optimizing collegial relationships with other health providers, and professionalism. Considerable individual supervision is provided. Additionally, didactics of Emory’s Psychiatry Department are open to fellows– including bite-sized teaching, teaching conferences, grand rounds, etc.
Research
Emory's Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship is academically oriented and strives to create new knowledge in consultation-liaison psychiatry. Fellows will participate in ongoing research projects that focus on clinical care, quality improvement and clinical education. They are also encouraged and supported to develop their own research project that may pertain to their specific interests.
Faculty
The faculty consists of psychiatrists who are board certified in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry and have an extensive background of experience in clinical care, education, quality and scholarship. Each of our faculty is involved in the various clinical, didactic and research experiences of the program.
Salary
The annual salary for 2021-2022 is $73,026. Fellows receive the standard benefit package associated with being housestaff at Emory.
Living in Atlanta
More information about living in Atlanta may be found.