Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Rotations
Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Rotations
Rotation Sites, Schedules, & Call
CAP 1 Schedule
The fellows rotate for three months on the inpatient unit at the Huntsman Mental Health Institute (HMHI), a free-standing inpatient psychiatric facility, which has 66 child and adolescent inpatient beds, including a latency unit, two teen units, and a Comprehensive Assessment and Treatment Unit (CAT Program). HMHI has consistently been in the top tier of academic psychiatric facilities for the high-quality care that they provide. HMHI gets inpatient referrals from throughout Utah, five surrounding states, and the CAT program sees patients from all over the world.
Fellows rotate on the Consult/Liaison service at the nationally recognized Intermountain Primary Children's Hospital. Primary Children’s Hospital, owned by Intermountain Healthcare, is the tertiary referral center for Utah and six surrounding states. Fellows spend a crisis month in the psychiatric ED and spend an inpatient psychiatry month at Primary Children’s Taylorsville Behavioral Health Campus (PCH Taylorsville).
Fellows also spend four months in the latency and Adolescent Day Treatment programs at HMHI or Primary Children's, which sees patients from all over Utah and three neighboring states. During these rotations, they work with adolescents with substance use disorders and advance their individual, group, and family therapy skills. They also work closely with our academic specialist to liaise with schools.
Fellows spend one-half month learning about school interventions within Jordan School District.
CAP 2 Schedule
- Year-long outpatient Child & Adolescent Psychiatry continuity clinic, typically at HMHI Downtown Clinic or PCH Taylorsville.
- Integrated behavioral health referrals within pediatrics clinics through Mental Health Integration.
- Experience at HMHI HOME Program, which is a capitated multidisciplinary medical home for patients with comorbid developmental and psychiatry illnesses.
- Comprehensive autism testing and treatment experience at the Autism Spectrum Disorder Clinic.
- Child Neurology training at Primary Children’s Hospital.
- Time in the Safe and Healthy Families program at Primary Children’s Hospital, working with child abuse pediatricians and trauma mental health specialists.
- A longitudinal outpatient psychotherapy clinic experience.
- Working with a developmental pediatrician, seeing normal children, performing developmental evaluations.
- Opportunities for electives to further hone a specific area of interest.
Call
- Fellows take approximately 8-10 weekends of call over their two years of training.
- Home call with weekend daytime admissions.
- No in-house overnight call.
Other Opportunities / Electives
- Flexibility to create your own opportunities.
- Interventional Psychiatry
- Juvenile Justice Services
- Resident as Teacher
- Substance Use & Pregnancy-Recovery, Addiction, and Dependence (SUPeRAD) Clinic
- The Children's Center
- Youth Residential Treatment Unit