Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
This is a wonderful and exciting time for the field of child psychiatry. Since establishing itself as a distinct subspecialty in 1960, significant advances in the developmental neurosciences, in the epidemiology, nosology, and effective treatments of childhood disorders and in research methodologies have been made. At the same time, we face a nation-wide shortage of trained child psychiatrists and declining numbers of child psychiatrists willing to pursue careers in research or academic medicine.
The merger of the teaching hospitals of Cornell and Columbia into NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital has provided Weill Cornell Medical College with many exciting possibilities for collaboration with our cross-town partner institution. The Departments of Psychiatry at both Weill Cornell and Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons are proud to be able to offer one of the first programs to take advantage of the unique strengths of both institutions. The creation of The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training Program of Columbia and Cornell Universities is the exciting result of merging three existing child and adolescent psychiatry training programs; two affiliated with the Weill Medical College of Cornell University and the third with the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. The vast resources of The NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Payne Whitney Manhattan, Payne Whitney Westchester, The Children's Hospital of New York, The New York State Psychiatric Institute, and Columbia and Cornell Universities, provide residents access to distinguished faculty and a broad array of training opportunities. The resulting residency has unparalleled academic, clinical, and research assets. Under the leadership of Training Director Elisabeth Guthrie, MD, and Associate Training Director Rebecca Rendleman, MD, this two year ACGME accredited child and adolescent psychiatry training program admits 12 residents per year.
Our mission is to provide our residents with excellent clinical skills in a variety of settings and a strong foundation for a professional life of scholarship, research and teaching. Our program's dedication to evidence-based interventions and to research principles distinguishes us from other competitive programs. We also provide extraordinary opportunities for each trainee to consider a career in scholarship and research. To facilitate this mission the program offers training in the most important and useful methods of diagnosis and treatment across a broad range of clinical problems; facilitates experience with socio-economically and culturally diverse patient populations; provides an in-depth exposure to research methods and strategies; and affords ample opportunities to develop competency in clinical teaching, consultation, and systems administration.
The child and adolescent psychiatry training program accepts 12 residents in each year through the child psychiatry match. Residents may begin their training in child and adolescent psychiatry after completing a year of internship and either two or three years of a general psychiatry residency (starting at the PGY-IV or V year).
