In Association WithChild & Adolescent Residency
The Department of Psychiatry of Dartmouth Medical School, a component of the Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, offers a two-year residency in child psychiatry.
Traditionally, residents enter the child psychiatry program after PGY III or IV of adult psychiatry. Residents who have completed PGYs I or II at other adult psychiatry training programs may apply simultaneously to the child and adult psychiatry residency programs to complete training in both areas.
Our mission is to train child psychologists who want to live and work in rural areas, particularly Northern New England. It is critical that we address the documented problem of lack of access to children's psychiatric services in our region.
In the Dartmouth program, we emphasize teaching thorough evaluation of children of all ages with all types of psychiatric disorders as well as how to work within a larger system of care (working with the school systems, public health systems, and within the context of other community services).
In clinical settings, Child Psychiatry Residents learn:
- How to assess the evidence to support different treatment approaches.
- How to evaluate the types of treatments available and how to choose them appropriately for all types of disorders.
- Skill in various treatments domains - medications, working with family units, working directly with individual children, and becoming familiar with various other treatment modalities.
Everything we teach is evidence-based to provide excellent, broad-based, individualized training to child psychiatry residents who will be well-prepared for specialty certification and for productive clinical, teaching, and research oriented careers.
The Accrediting Council on Graduate Medical Education has granted our program the maximum length of accreditation during the last three rounds of evaluation. During the most recent evaluation, we received not a single citation. In addition to the quality of the program's content, the satisfaction level of residents high.