WELCOME

It is our pleasure to welcome you to the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training Program at the Child and Family Institute at St. Luke's - Roosevelt Hospitals and Beth Israel Medical Center.

For over half a century, the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center (SLRHC), a University Hospital of Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons, has been an integral part of the Department of Psychiatry. Beginning in the late 1940's, before Child and Adolescent Psychiatry was even a recognized field, St. Luke's (SL) and Roosevelt (RH) Hospitals were providing care to children and their families afflicted by mental illness.

In addition to the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training Program, the division has nationally renowned training programs for mental health professionals, an internship program in Child Psychology, postdoctoral fellowships in Child Psychology, and an internship program in clinical Social Work, all of which combine clinical and research training.

Aleksandra Krunic, M.D.
Director of Training and Education
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

Program Length

To complete the residency requirements and be Board Eligible in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry each candidate must complete two years of training in an ACGME-accredited Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training Program.

The St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital Center (SLRHC) and Beth Israel Medical Center (BIMC) program is ACGME accredited to provide training for two post-graduate years in child and adolescent psychiatry. The program accepts five residents a year.

At the time of recruitment the program contracts with the applicants for a single year of training with the option to complete a second year provided that an acceptable performance was rendered in the first year of training.

Important Information

Salaries are disclosed on contracts and are set by agreement between the medical center and the Committee for Interns and Residents (CIR). Residents are given four weeks (20 days) of paid vacation and 10 sick days, per year. If required, further information regarding maternity leave is available through the Graduate Medical Education ("House staff") Office.

General Educational Goals and Objectives

The goal of this training program is to produce the highest quality of child and adolescent psychiatrists who will demonstrate high ethical standards, excellent clinical skills and knowledge in child and adolescent psychopathology, psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, consultation, teaching, research and administration.

Our ambition is to help residents build up their professional identity as a child and adolescent psychiatrist, ready to be a leader in a filed of child mental health, an advocate for children and their families, an educator for professionals and community, an academic psychiatrist and researcher and above all a mindful and integrative clinician. Our program utilizes clinical experience as well as a formal curriculum covering major areas of child and adolescent psychiatry, individual and group supervision, conferences and seminars to educate trainees on the theoretical and practical principles of our field in a comprehensive manner.

Upon completion of the program, resident will be competent in the core areas of patient care, medical knowledge, interpersonal and communication skills, practice based learning, professionalism and system-based practice.

The resident will be well trained in understanding normal development and with this framework in mind will become an expert in differentiating normal from abnormal behavior and in development of psychopathology.

At the end of their training the resident will demonstrate broad knowledge of child and adolescent psychopathology, including the full range of DSM IV TR Axis diagnosis; he or she will demonstrate competency in working with culturally, ethnically and educationally diverse population.

The resident will become proficient in conducting comprehensive diagnostic and therapeutic evaluations of children, adolescents and their families within a framework of biological, psychological, social and cultural influences, and with the ultimate outcome of becoming an expert in formulating comprehensive and integrative diagnostic impression and treatment plan.

The resident is expected to demonstrate diagnostic and treatment skills in a wide range of clinical settings, including outpatient, inpatient, day treatment programs, crisis clinic and emergency room; the resident is expected to become competent consultant to the pediatric medical specialty clinics, schools, various community health centers and agencies or courts.

The resident is expected to become proficient in major treatment modalities: a) the psychotherapeutic clinical skills such as behavioral and cognitive therapy, motivational interviewing, dialectic behavioral therapy skills; psychodynamic psychotherapy and play therapy, dyadic parent-infant therapy; group therapy, family therapy; individual and family crisis work; b) pharmacotherapy and c) combined psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy.

The resident will have ample of experience in supervising and teaching other trainees in the field such as medical students, general psychiatry residents, psychology and social work trainees.

Upon completion of this program, residents become competent clinical administrators in any clinical setting including outpatient, inpatient, day treatment or acute care. The resident will be adept at consulting and critically apprising medical literature as well as understanding research methodology and processes. We promote academic development and encourage residents to engage in their independent scientific research projects and scholarly activities and we provide mentorship and time for residents to do so.

TRAINING SITES:

St. Luke's Roosevelt Hospital

St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals, University Hospital of Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, is a 1,076-bed, full-service community and tertiary care hospital. St. Luke’s-Roosevelt was formed in 1979 by a merger of St. Luke’s Hospital, adjacent to the campus of Columbia University, and the Roosevelt Hospital, located a few blocks south of Lincoln Center at Tenth Avenue and 58th Street. Residents train in recently constructed state-of-the-art facilities: a 10-story building at the St. Luke’s Division and a 13-story building at the Roosevelt Division. St. Luke’s-Roosevelt provides a sophisticated clinical and academic environment in which physicians can practice superior medicine, train more than 480 residents and fellows in 40 clinical specialties and carry out innovative research. The Hospital Center is widely respected for high quality clinical care and its contribution to research in cardiology, gastroenterology, metabolic disorders, psychiatry and many other areas. Through out its history, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt also has placed strong emphasis on responding with compassion and sensitivity to he unique needs of the communities it serves, including areas whose residents have multiple social and economic challenges. It provides much of the inpatient; outpatient and emergency medical care for more that half a million residents of the West Side of Manhattan, as well as for patients throughout the New York Metropolitan region. The Hospital Center admits approximately 40,000 patients, serves more that 300,000 outpatients, and proves emergency care for over 100,000 patients every year. You can visit us on the web at St. Luke’s and Roosevelt Hospitals and Continuum Health Partners, Inc.

Beth Israel Medical Center

Beth Israel Medical Center, an 899-bed, full-service tertiary teaching hospital, is University Hospital and Manhattan Campus for the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Beth Israel has two hospital divisions: the Milton and Carroll Petrie Division in Lower Manhattan; and the Kings Highway Division in the Midwood section of Brooklyn. Founded on Manhattan's Lower East Side before the turn of the 20th century, Beth Israel originally was dedicated to serving vulnerable populations in that community. A century later, the Medical Center serves individuals and families throughout New York City and beyond—while retaining its traditional strong sense of mission. In addition to Beth Israel Medical Center, the Beth Israel Health Care System includes the Phillips Ambulatory Care Center—a state-of-the-art outpatient care center located at Union Square in Manhattan offering a wide range of primary and specialty care services; D•O•C•S primary and specialty health care offices; Beth Israel Ambulatory Surgi-Center in Brooklyn; the Williamsburg Family Health Center; the Phillips Family Practice/Sidney Hillman Center; Geriatrics/Internal Medicine at Penn South; the Robert Mapplethorpe Residential Treatment Facility; the Phillips Beth Israel School of Nursing; Karpas Health Information Center; Max Meltzer Geriatric Practice; and the Japanese Medical Practice. Beth Israel has been cited for excellence in many clinical areas, including AIDS and HIV-related disorders, breast cancer and other cancer specialties, such as head and neck, lung, skin, gynecological, urological, colorectal and neurological cancer, cardiology, chemical dependency, neurological disorders, brief psychotherapy, geriatric psychiatry, neuroimaging, and neurobehavior.