Program Overview
First Year Fellowship
4 months: Acute Child & Adolescent Psychiatry- Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (LCCA)<
4 months: Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry (CHOG)
The above experiences are longitudinal. Remaining time is devoted to didactics, research, outpatient continuity clinic, group therapy modalities (DBT, autism social skills group), and experiences in pediatric neurology, sexual abuse evaluations, palliative care, and HemeOnc.
Second Year Fellowship
The majority of the second year consists of an outpatient clinic with exposure to various settings, typically for three-month blocks, a half-day a week, including:
- Addictions (Hope House)
- Community Psychiatry (Transitional Family Services)
- Forensic psychiatry (Augusta RYDC)
- Pediatrics Enhanced Primary Care Clinic
- School Consultation (McDuffie & Richmond Counties)
- Student Health (Augusta University)
Additional elective time for research, QI projects, or other treatment modalities is available.
First Year Post Pediatric Portal
- 4 weeks: Adult Consultation Liaison (AU)
- 4 weeks: Adult Forensics (ECRH)
- 4 weeks: Adult Neurology (AU)
- 8 weeks: Child & Adolescent Consultation Liaison (CHOG)
- 4 weeks: Emergency psychiatry (AU Behavioral Health Unit)
- 12 weeks: Inpatient Adult Psychiatry (ECRH)
The remainder of the year begins longitudinal experiences in outpatient adult and child psychiatry.
Second Year Post Pediatric Portal
- A half-day a week of Acute Child & Adolescent Psychiatry- Psychiatric Residential Treatment Facility (LCCA)
- Outpatient clinics in both adult and child psychiatry
- Geriatric psychiatry experience
Third Year Post Pediatric Portal
The majority of the third year consists of outpatient clinics in both adult and child psychiatry with exposure to various settings, typically for three-month blocks a half-day a week, including:
- Addictions (Hope House)
- Community Psychiatry (Transitional Family Services)
- Forensic psychiatry (Augusta RYDC)
- Pediatrics Enhanced Primary Care Clinic
- Pediatric Neurology
- School Consultation (McDuffie & Richmond Counties)
- Student Health (Augusta University)
Additional elective time for research, QI projects, or other treatment modalities is available.
Call Responsibilities
Call is shared among CAP Fellows and Portals, averaging less than once per week. There are no in-house call responsibilities. In collaboration with faculty, fellows serve as back-up to general psychiatry residents, offering advice on case management of patients presenting to the CHOG ED.
Educational Time
CAP Fellows have Wednesdays blocked for educational activities, including didactics, psychotherapy seminars, and two hours a week of research time. Additional protected time for research and scholarly activities may be requested when the base time is not enough for a project’s needs.
Portals have the same educational experience as CAP fellows in the second and third year of training. In the first and second year of training portals join the general psychiatry program for their day of protected didactic time on Thursday.
Wellness Time
One half-day a month is reserved for wellness activities for CAP fellows and second and third-year portals.
Leave
- Three weeks (15 weekdays) of paid annual leave
- Bonus week of leave over winter break
- 14 days annual sick leave
- 6 weeks paid parental leave
- $100 for book funds
- 6-month Board Vitals subscription for graduating trainees
- Financial support for travel when presenting at conferences
- Free parking on campus
- Membership available at Campus Recreation Center ($20/month)
- Free counseling services
- Group health insurance for the House Officer
- Malpractice insurance
- Group life insurance
- Disability insurance
- Dental insurance, health insurance for the House Officer’s family and additional life insurance are available at an additional cost.