Training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Selection, Academic Performance and Outcome

Model curriculum for academic child and adolescent psychiatry training.

OBJECTIVE The United States is facing a severe shortage of academic child and adolescent psychiatrists. This article reviews a model integrated pathway to improve recruitment. METHODS The authors review training portals for research in child and adolescent psychiatry. There is a summary of a focus group discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of the Integrated Research Pathway in Child...

Child and adolescent psychiatry: the need for training and development.

In the last few decades, it has been continuously stressed that the significance that mental disorders have for patients and society should be acknowledged. This is due to both the elevated frequency of such disorders and the social and economic burden they represent.1,2 Generalised acceptance of the fact that there are elevated pre-adult rates of these pathologies has been especially slow. Chi...

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Research

Research is another key component to our commitment to improving the lives of children and adolescents with severe mental illnesses. We foster a wide and growing range of investigations. Basic genetic and neuroscience research focuses on how the normal brain develops and why and how that development sometimes goes awry. Our clinical researchers are seeking to develop better tools for early, pre...

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Research

Research is another key component to our commitment to improving the lives of children and adolescents with severe mental illnesses. We foster a wide and growing range of investigations. Basic genetic and neuroscience research focuses on how the normal brain develops and why and how that development sometimes goes awry. Our clinical researchers are seeking to develop better tools for early, pre...

Functional neuroimaging in child and adolescent psychiatry.