| This is a full-time, one-year fellowship (a second year for research may be arranged) for a psychiatrist who has completed residency and requires a permanent Illinois medical license. All clinical activity occurs at Northwestern Memorial Hospital (NMH), which has 92 ICU beds and more than 700 inpatient beds. The multidisciplinary NMH Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Service provides more than 1,800 new consultations and more than 4,000 separate patient contacts annually. The Division of Psychosomatic Medicine of Northwestern University's Feinberg School of Medicine sponsors this fellowship. This fellowship fully adheres to standards for clinical experiences, didactics, and supervision with attainment of core competencies, as detailed in the training standards approved by the ACGME towards added qualification in this specialty by the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Core responsibilities and training will be in consultation with and liaison to the Oncology Service (inpatient/outpatient), including bone marrow transplantation, hematological malignancies, and solid tumors. Fellows will be immersed in psycho-oncology research in distress and symptom management in cooperation with the Palliative Care Program of NMH, the Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, and the Lynn Sage Breast Center. Fellows will be expected to generate an independent clinical or academic research project (for example, primary research, an evidence-based medicine review of published studies, review of basic science with potential applications for translational research, and curriculum design), with mentoring for design, methods, data analysis, presentation, and publication. Fellows will become familiar with processes for administration of a large, busy C-L service, including quality improvement, risk management, ethics, correcting systems barriers, forensic psychiatry and public policy in guardianship and psychiatric commitment, billing and documentation, and supervision of an interdisciplinary team with Advance Practice Psychiatric Nursing and Neuropsychology. Fellows receive extensive, regular supervision from attending psychiatrists to hone skills in psychopharmacology for complex medical patients, brief dynamic and supportive psychotherapies, cognitive-behavioral therapy, hypnotherapy, family assessments and detailed understanding of indications for specific laboratory investigations, neuropsychological assessment, and neuroimaging. Psychosomatic Medicine fellows will collaborate with fellows in Addiction Psychiatry and Geriatric Psychiatry on joint projects and in a journal club. Fellows provide limited supervision for general psychiatry residents and medical students and a small number of didactic sessions in the general psychiatry residency curriculum. Fellows have no scheduled call and have weekends free, with ample time for independent study and easy access to a world-class medical library. Salaries and benefits are highly competitive and comfortable, affordable housing is located nearby. Send CV, letter of interest and three letters of reference to: Joshua L. Straus, MD
Director, Division of Psychosomatic Medicine
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Northwestern University
Feinberg School of Medicine
446 E Ontario, Suite 7-250
Chicago, IL 60611 (312) 926-8411
Fax: (312) 926-4840 jstraus@northwestern.edu
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