Community Psychiatry Fellowship
Membership data compiled by the American Psychiatric Association (APA) reported that early career and mid-career psychiatrists now work more hours in publicly funded organizational settings than in private practice settings. However, the development of a psychiatric workforce that is formally prepared to enter into public sector settings to provide not only direct care, but to also assume leadership positions as medical directors and administrators, has lagged over the years.
Traditional residency training programs in Psychiatry have often focused rather narrowly upon the interplay between the brain, pharmacology and the biological processes that contribute to mental health disorders. However, a worldwide recovery movement, largely driven by recipients of behavioral health services, has challenged psychiatrists to understand and expand the scope of practice beyond diagnosis and medication management. This is particularly true for those psychiatrists working with individuals who often suffer from the most serious and persistent mental illnesses and who rely upon community-based, publicly-funded systems of care.
One of the primary goals of this initiative in community/public psychiatry is to attract, educate and retain psychiatrists to practice in the public sector upon completion of their training. Although most will be well-prepared for a career in academic public psychiatry, this is not an overt objective of the Fellowship. Hence, this new departmental initiative provides an excellent opportunity, based upon clinical setting, educational resources, faculty expertise and on-site leadership, to implement a one-year, non-ACGME PGY-5 Fellowship in Public Psychiatry, the first in Florida.
The University of Florida College of Medicine Department of Psychiatry is currently accepting applications for a PGY-5 Fellowship in Community Psychiatry to start immediately.
This fellowship in Community Psychiatry is under the guidance of Richard Christensen, MD, Chief of Public Psychiatry, and Wayne L. Creelman, MD, McCabe Clinical Eminent Scholar Chair in Psychiatry & Community Mental Health.
The fellowship offers consultation-liaison training in a wide variety of settings. These clinical experiences are accompanied by didactics, interviewing and psychotherapy instruction. Training is tailored according to the fellow’s area of interest and career goals. The fellowship is based in spectacular Vero Beach, Florida at the University’s Center for Psychiatry & Addiction Medicine.
Qualified applicants will have completed an accredited psychiatry residency in the US, have passed all necessary exams to obtain a medical license in Florida and be board certified or board-eligible. This is a one or two-year position. Applications are now being accepted .
Interested individuals should send a letter of interest and current C.V. to:
Wayne Creelman, MD
Center for Psychiatry & Addiction Medicine
840 37th Place, Suite 2
Vero Beach, FL 32960
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