Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship

Our first class of fellows graduated in 1979. We have the benefit of more than a quarter century of experience in child and adolescent psychiatric fellowship training.

Over the two years of the fellowship, you will have experience at more than 10 high-quality clinical rotation sites, all with highly regarded on-site clinical faculty supervisors. You will gain ongoing treatment experience with a variety of patients in the Jefferson Child & Adolescent Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic, and will be exposed to broad age and developmental ranges, treating child and adolescent patients with a variety of clinical diagnoses.

Our training program provides high-quality, formal didactic and seminar-style sessions led by expert child and adolescent psychiatry faculty and invited lecturers. These sessions include a psychodynamic continuous case conference, journal club, case conferences, and lectures. 

Our trainees also have opportunities to be involved in the teaching and supervision of medical students, general psychiatry residents, pediatric residents, and multidisciplinary treatment teams in multiple clinical contexts. Our fellows, supported by a faculty mentor, present at departmental grand rounds on a clinical topic of their choice during the second year of training. These teaching experiences prepare our fellows for careers in academia and medical education as faculty and clinical supervisors.

During the two years of training, our child and adolescent psychiatry fellows have opportunities to become involved in or develop their own clinical research interests and projects. These projects have support from the major academic Department of Psychiatry & Human Behavior of Sidney Kimmel Medical College at Jefferson, which provides fellows with guidance on using the library, statistical analyses, and research design.  

There are also opportunities to get involved with ongoing clinical research activities that occur at our major training sites. Additionally, fellows can also participate in a clinical research seminar where they receive direct supervision with a nationally recognized clinical research faculty member. 

We have an exceptional mix of clinical faculty supervisors who are committed to professional mentorship of our trainees. The Child & Adolescent Psychiatry training program at Jefferson is truly unique because of our affiliation with the larger university; this allows our resource pool to be broad enough to provide a breadth of clinical training experiences and academic resources, while also remaining small enough to provide meaningful, individualized mentoring and camaraderie among our cohorts.

Our fellowship has an extensive leadership team, composed of a Training Director, an Associate Training Director, and an Assistant Training Director. This allows us to dedicate resources for continuous improvements of the quality of our training program. Our leadership team is progressive, with a dynamic mix of experience and youth, positioning us to innovate and strengthen our training program effectively, year after year. We have firm support from our department and the Sidney Kimmel Medical College to maintain our core mission of providing high-quality clinical training in child and adolescent psychiatry.

We are located in Center City, Philadelphia, in the heart of the downtown area – only blocks away from Independence Hall, the Liberty Bell, the National Constitution Center, Chinatown, the Gayborhood, major shopping districts, and the Market East/Jefferson Station commuter train station. It is a safe area in which to live, work, and play. For sports fans, we have a number of major professional sports teams – the Eagles, Phillies, Sixers, Flyers, and Philadelphia Union. Philadelphia is home to the Wells Fargo Center, which hosts sporting events, a number of concerts, and other major entertainment events.

There are also smaller contemporary concert venues throughout Center City, all close to the Jefferson campus, in addition to museums. 

Check out some of the attractions listed below to learn more about what the city has to offer.

• The Philadelphia Convention Center is a 10-minute walk from Jefferson’s campus.
• Our city also has the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, home of our world-renowned Philadelphia Orchestra.
• You can see performances of some of the world’s most talented up-and-coming musicians, training close by the Curtis Institute of Music.
• Live theatrical performances surround Jefferson, and performances can be seen at the Academy of Music, and the Walnut Street Theater.
• The Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Barnes Foundation have international stature as museums of fine art, both historic and contemporary, both of which can be found in the Art Museum district, also home to the Rodin Museum among others.
• There are many other museums and art installations across the city as well, including the Mutter Museum of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia, a medical museum that contains a collection of anatomical and pathological specimens, wax models, and antique medical equipment.
• Convenient location: Philadelphia is within two hours of New York City, Baltimore, and the New Jersey shore communities, and within three hours of Washington, DC.