Clinical Fellowships and Training

Overview

Key features:

 

  • Specialized residency and fellowship tracks, including psychiatric research - designed for residents entering with a Ph.D. degree.
  • A vast group of research centers and programs investigating the whole spectrum of the neurosciences, from the gene through to human culture.
  • Close affiliations to other centers in the Greater LA area that support our training effort in community psychiatry and offer residents additional opportunity to select various ambulatory and ER rotations.
  • Inpatient programs to be based in the new 75-bed Resnick Neuropsychiatric Hospital, as part of the Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center, featuring the most advanced medical technology in the world, which opened in Summer 2008
  • Ambulatory care programs in the 300 Medical Plaza building at UCLA.

 

Full details on the Residency are available at www.semel.ucla.edu/residency.

Overview

Candidates in the general track who are interested in research and academic careers are encouraged early in their training to consider the possibility of devoting one year to full-time research training.

 

Residents who have completed the PG-3 year of residency are eligible for this special training.  Continuation of limited clinical activities may be permitted.  The schedule of research activities is developed on an individual basis, following designation of research training goals.

 

The resident may elect to pursue original research or to participate in ongoing projects.  Although research training emphasizes actual participation in research work and the assumption of responsibility for projects, time is available for taking appropriate University courses and attending seminars and research discussion groups.

 

The department offers a number of NIMH funded two-year post-residency research fellowships in clinical and basic psychiatric research.  Fellows work under the direction of a senior research advisor and also participate in a core research methods curriculum.  A large number of senior faculty participate as research mentors.  

 

Overview

This is a one-year program (with an optional second year for research) aimed at developing addiction psychiatrists with interest in and exposure to research.  The fellowship involves rotations on the inpatient ward, outpatient clinics, Consultation Liaison Service and Methadone Clinic.

Director/Instructor(s): 
Timothy Fong

Overview

The UCLA Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program is an ACGME- accredited program.

  1. During the first year, the fellows gain experience in the inpatient setting, in the outpatient clinic, and in long-term outpatient care. In addition to the inpatient rotations, the fellows rotate in the Pediatric Trauma Clinic once a week while on the consult liason rotation. In this clinic, they conduct clinical evaluations, as well as observe their peers conducting evaluations, through a one way mirror with supervision. First-year fellows also carry one long-term outpatient therapy case throughout the year. 
    Each fellow completes three 4 month-long clinical rotations:
    1. Child and Adolescent Inpatient Service/Adolescent Partial Program
    2. Young Child Partial Program
    3. Consultation-Liaison/ER.
  2. In the second year, the fellows work in the outpatient setting. In addition to outpatient work, second year fellows complete clinical rotations in consultation to community, school and forensic settings and carry at least two long-term outpatient cases. All second year fellows are required to do one elective in child and adolescent psychiatry for five hours per week. 
    The Fellows see children and adolescents for evaluations and treatment in five clinics: 
    1. High-Risk Child Clinic
    2. Child Anxiety Disorders Clinic
    3. General Child Outpatient Clinic
    4. Pediatric Psychopharmacology Clinic
    5. Pediatric Neuropsychiatry Clinic. 

Supplemental information is available on our Frequently Asked Questions page.