The Department of Psychiatry offers a variety of postgraduate subspecialty training programs
The Robert Wood Johnson Medical School program provides the opportunity to go beyond the training in general psychiatry to become a highly skilled provider of comprehensive medical care to children and adolescents suffering from psychiatric disorders. To achieve this goal, the training includes a carefully selected array of clinical and didactic experiences that ensure that the trainee will have the knowledge and skill to function with confidence in the wide variety of settings in which today’s child and adolescent psychiatry practices.
The Geriatric Psychiatry training program provides advance training in the subspecialty. Emphasis is on scholarship, self-instruction, development of critical analysis of clinical problems, and the ability to make and carry out difficult consultative care for patients in both inpatient and outpatient settings. Focus is on multidimensional biopsychosocial concepts of treatment and management as applied both in inpatient facilities (acute and long-term) and in the community or home settings. There is also an emphasis on the neuropsychiatric and iatrogenic aspects of illness as well as on sociocultural, ethnic, economic, ethical, and legal considerations that may affect psychiatric management.
The Department of Psychiatry offers a one year postgraduate residency in addiction psychiatry located at Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, University Behavioral Healthcare and the VA New Jersey Healthcare Systems in Lyons, NJ. Fellows develop specialized skills in evaluation and management of acute detoxification, substance abuse in the medically ill and the dual diagnosed patient. Fellows also are broadly exposed and encouraged to participate in the myriad of clinical research projects in the division. An extensive didactic curriculum and varied clinical experience will provide the clinician knowledge and skills to render excellent care to this growing patient population.
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