Level: PGY-5 or higher
Positions: 1
Annual Stipend: $75,969 (PGY-5, 2023-2024)
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, scholarship and advocacy in the field of consultation liaison psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine.
Clinical Experiences
Fellows spend four months at each of three primary sites: Emory University Hospital, Grady Memorial Hospital and the Atlanta VA Medical Center. Each clinical site provides in-depth training in the field of consultation liaison psychiatry in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Each setting allows for opportunities to work with a variety of specialized population settings, which include Emory’s Winship Cancer Institute, Emory’s Organ Transplant Center, Grady’s Infectious Disease Program and the Atlanta VA’s addiction programs.
Didactic Experiences
The CL fellows are provided weekly didactic seminars and teaching conferences, covering a full range of topics specific to consultation liaison psychiatry and psychosomatic medicine. In addition to specific didactic sessions for the CL fellow, there are didactics that are done in collaboration with Emory’s Geriatric, Addiction and Child fellowship programs, as well as the Atlanta VA Scholar’s Program.
In collaboration with the Addiction and Geriatric Psychiatry fellowship programs, the CL fellows participate in a “How to Teach Program.” In the How to Teach Program, fellows are provided a number of didactics throughout the year on how to become a better teacher, educator and presenter. With the completion of the How to Teach Program, fellows give an education presentation, providing the audience an opportunity to critique the fellow’s teaching performance.
In collaboration with the Geriatric Psychiatry Fellowship, the CL fellows participate in a monthly fellow’s case conference, where complex patient cases are presented by the fellows to CL and Geriatric psych faculty as a means to engage in educational discussions based on those cases.
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 to participate which include bite-sized teaching, resident 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 2023-2024 is $75,969 (PGY5). Fellows receive the standard benefit package associated with being housestaff at Emory
Living in Atlanta
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