The goal of the fellowship is to facilitate recruitment and retention of high caliber psychiatrists in the public sector. The Fellowship is a one year full-time training program for psychiatrists who have completed accredited psychiatric residency training and who plan to devote their careers to working with high risk populations in the public sector. Fellows spend two days per week in seminars at Psychiatric Institute, learning the major principles and practices of public psychiatry. They spend three days each week applying these concepts at an agency providing comprehensive mental health services in the public sector. Each fellow meets weekly with a core faculty preceptor who provides crucial guidance in all didactic and field experiences, and with a field placement supervisor who provides clinical and administrative supervision of work at the field site.
Field placement sites are carefully selected to provide a year-long, in-depth experience of how a particular mental health service works and how the psychiatrist as clinician or manager contributes to its effort. Fellows with special interests can also choose alternative sites. In conjunction with the field site supervisor, each fellow negotiates a contract to perform certain duties. The duties usually include participation on a clinical team and a combination of direct patient care, supervisory consultation, administration, and program evaluation. Through these field placements the fellowship has developed ongoing liaisons with a wide variety of community mental health, municipal, state, and nonprofit agencies.
Fellows receive appointments as Post Doctoral Clinical Fellows in the Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Field placement sites are carefully selected to provide a year-long, in-depth experience of how a particular mental health service works and how the psychiatrist as clinician or manager contributes to its effort. Fellows with special interests can also choose alternative sites. In conjunction with the field site supervisor, each fellow negotiates a contract to perform certain duties. The duties usually include participation on a clinical team and a combination of direct patient care, supervisory consultation, administration, and program evaluation. Through these field placements the fellowship has developed ongoing liaisons with a wide variety of community mental health, municipal, state, and nonprofit agencies.
Fellows receive appointments as Post Doctoral Clinical Fellows in the Department of Psychiatry, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Columbia University.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
Eligibility Requirements
Candidates for the Fellowship must have completed an accredited residency program in psychiatry or child psychiatry. In addition, the candidate must have, or be eligible to obtain, a New York State Medical License prior to entry into the program. Of primary importance in the selection process will be the candidate's demonstrated interest in public mental health issues, especially those concerned with achieving better care for poor and otherwise disadvantaged adults with severe and persistent mental illness. Other factors considered in the selection process include the candidate's interest and ability in a) working as part of an interdisciplinary team, b) psychiatric leadership, c) internal program evaluation and d) other academic endeavors. The selection committee complies with the intent of the Affirmative Action Program and the Americans with Disabilities Act.