The child and adolescent program is based primarily at Children's Memorial Hospital. The attending physicians in the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at the 270-bed Children’s Memorial are an integral part of the Feinberg School of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. The two-year residency (fellowship) program in child and adolescent psychiatry follows three or four years of general psychiatry residency training. The program's biopsychosocial model provides a flexible curriculum in diverse clinical settings. It also offers an opportunity for interdisciplinary learning with students and faculty members from neurology, pediatrics, psychology, social work, and speech pathology. Residents (fellows) master the basic skills of child and adolescent psychiatry and develop special interests to foster to their career goals. Opportunities are available for mentored research. The department at Children's Memorial logs more than 21,000 outpatient visits each year. Patient ages range from infancy to adolescence, and patients come from all socioeconomic, racial, and ethnic groups. Their problems span the full range of diagnostic categories, including attachment disorders, behavior disorders, ADHD, anxiety and mood disorders, autism, learning disabilities, mental retardation, organic brain dysfunction, psychoses, and somatoform disorders. Outpatient treatment modalities include individual, group, and family therapy; parent counseling; pharmacotherapy; and combined treatments. The Warren Wright Adolescent Center treats outpatients with psychiatric and/or substance use disorders at Northwestern Memorial Hospital. The inpatient psychiatric unit at Children's Memorial contains 12 beds for children and young adolescents. The partial-hospitalization program has a capacity of 12 children. A multidisciplinary team provides consultation to pediatric services.
Children's Memorial is located in Chicago's Lincoln Park area, three miles from Northwestern's downtown campus and several other McGaw Medical Center hospitals. A shuttle bus service links Children's Memorial to the University and hospitals.
An elevated train station two blocks from the hospital offers express service to Evanston, site of Northwestern's main campus. Four first-year residents (fellows) are accepted in the program each year at a PGY-4 or PGY-5 level. MaryBeth Lake, MD
Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director of Education and Child and Adolescent Residency Training, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Mina K. Dulcan, MD
Professor of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Director, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Osterman Professor and Head of Child Psychiatry
Children’s Memorial Hospital For more information, contact Education and Training Coordinator Arianne Marcoux, Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Northwestern University, Feinberg School of Medicine, Children's Memorial Hospital, 2300 Children's Plaza, Box 10, Chicago, Illinois 60614-3394, 773/880-4833; fax 773/880-4066 or visit the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Web site.
E-mail: amarcoux@childrensmemorial.org |
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry