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  1. Child and Adolescent Inpatient Units: Hartgrove Behavioral Health
  2. Pediatric Collaboration and Consultation-Liaison: University of Illinois
  3. DCFS Adolescent Assessment Unit (CATU): University of Illinois
  4. Colbeth Outpatient Clinic: UIC/IJR
  5. School Consultation: SEDOL
  6. Intensive Outpatient Treatment: Suncloud Behavioral Health
  7. Electives

 

  1. Child and Adolescent Inpatient Units: Hartgrove Behavioral Health Hospital
    • Fellows will spend 4 months practicing inpatient child and adolescent psychiatry at Hartgrove Behavioral Health, a standalone psychiatric hospital near the UIC west campus. Hartgrove serves both children and adolescents throughout the city and greater Chicagoland area. Fellows encounter a diverse patient population with problems across the spectrum of psychiatric pathology. There are specialized substance abuse and trauma tracts that may be a component of a youth’s treatment. Fellows work collaboratively with their onsite supervisor and interprofessional healthcare to while developing independence in their inpatient child psychiatry skills. They also work closely with medical students completing their psychiatry clerkship, teaching and mentoring. Families are an important component of an acute treatment plan and the development of an outpatient plan that may include Hartgrove Outpatient Services or other community services, including outpatient services at the UIC Colbeth Clinic will be carefully developed.
  2. Pediatric Collaboration and Consultation-Liaison: University of Illinois Chicago
    • The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Collaboration and Consultation service is directed by Elizabeth Charney, MD and James Chambliss, MD. First-year fellows rotate through this service for four months. The service provides inpatient, outpatient, and emergent consultation to pediatric patients referred by other physicians at UIC. Consultations to inpatients include medically ill patients hospitalized on the pediatric unit. Outpatient consultation involves consults to general pediatric patients as well as patients in specialty clinics including pediatric neurology, hematology/oncology, nephrology, endocrinology, surgery, infectious disease, cardiology, genetics clinic, and Development and Behavioral clinics. Fellows work collaboratively with pediatric faculty and residents in an embedded mental health clinic, adolescent eating disorder clinic, and pediatric neurology clinic.
  3. DCFS Adolescent Assessment Unit: University of Illinois
    • The Comprehensive Assessment and Treatment Unit (CATU)/Response Training System (CARTS) is an 9 bed intensive treatment program serving the psychiatric needs of DCFS wards located in the UIC Hospital. The Medical Director/Coordinator is Michael Naylor, MD.  The program is the result of a contract between the Department of Children and Family Services and the University of Illinois Chicago. The patients treated are adolescents between the ages of 12 and 18 years with severe psychopathology who have failed numerous hospitalizations, residential treatment center placements, group or foster home placements. The inpatient component of the program, the CATU, strives to provide comprehensive evaluations, crisis stabilization, acute treatment, and linkage to intensive community-based treatment programs, including wrap - around services. Diagnoses represent the full range of psychopathology, with high percentages of post-traumatic stress disorder, affective disorders, disruptive behavior disorders, and learning disabilities. Services offered include psychological, neuropsychological, and educational testing; speech and language evaluation; behavioral analysis and behavioral treatment; individual psychotherapy; pharmacotherapy; milieu and group therapy; case management; occupational therapy; group therapy for adolescents who have been sexually and physically abused, and substance abuse groups. Given the chronicity and severity of psychopathology in this population, the average length of stay is expected to be approximately 30-45 days.
    • The CARTS team follows youth from the hospital into the community, providing direct clinical services and providing consultative and educational services to care-givers involved in the patient's care in the community, often residential treatment centers.
    • First-year fellows rotate for 4 months on the CATU/CARTS. Fellows will be assigned patients at the time of admission to the unit and will be responsible for day-to-day patient care under the supervision of the attending physician as well as working with the team in group therapy and planning sessions.
  4. Outpatient Clinic: University of Illinois Chicago/Institute for Juvenile Research (UIC/IJR)
    • The site for the majority of outpatient clinical experiences is the UIC/IJR Colbeth Clinic. The outpatient clinic serves a diverse patient population, primarily in the community around UIC, including many Spanish speaking families. Fellows work in our many subspecialty clinics including Pediatric Mood Disorders, Pediatric Stress and Anxiety Disorders, Comprehensive ADHD Clinic, Young Child Clinic, Neuropsychopharmacology Clinic, and general medication and psychotherapy clinics. Treatment modalities include an overall evidence-informed eclectic biopsychosocial approach, supportive psychotherapy, psychodynamic psychotherapy, psychopharmacology, group therapy, individual and family systems therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy and trauma-focused CBT. See “Child and Adolescent Services ” website for more details about our outpatient clinics.  
  5. School Consultation: Special Education District of Lake County
    • A board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist who is on our faculty and in private practice, Mojgan Makki MD, is the rotation coordinator and supervisor. SEDOL (Special Education District of Lake County) is a special education cooperative with a school population base of 67,000 students being served by 40 individual small suburban districts. Of these, 8000 have special education needs, and 2000 are within self-contained classrooms. Ages seen range from the Parent-Infant Center (0-3 years) to 21-year-old young adults. Children and youth seen have diagnoses that include autism, developmental disability/cognitive delay, disruptive behavior disorders, learning disabilities, physically handicapped, and mood disorders.
    • Trainees perform youth-centered, consultee-centered, and program consultation. They do classroom observation, consult to nursing staff about medication issues, consult to teachers about behavioral techniques, work with classroom groups on selected issues, meet with parents, evaluate individual children, and participate in staffings. Supervision occurs on-site at SEDOL for the SCHOOL day once a week for an average of 3 months with Dr. Makki.
    • Interested trainees may elect to become involved in ongoing research and clinical projects at UIC/IJR involving the Chicago Public Schools. The Chicago Public Schools serve 400,000 students in mainstream education. There is a large proportion of minority, low income, and socially disadvantaged students.•    A board-certified child and adolescent psychiatrist who is on our faculty and in private practice, Mojgan Makki MD, a child and adolescent psychiatrist and UIC CAP Fellowship graduate, is the rotation coordinator and supervisor. SEDOL (Special Education District of Lake County) is a special education cooperative serving the school districts of Lake County. Ages seen range from the Parent-Infant Center (0-3 years) to 21-year-old young adults. Children and youth seen have diagnoses that include neurodevelopmental disorders, developmental disabilities and delays, disruptive behavior disorders, learning disabilities, and mood disorders. Trainees refine their consultant skills by performing youth-centered consultation services in a school setting. They do classroom observations and consult teachers, school staff, and parents. 
  6. Intensive Outpatient Treatment: Suncloud Behavioral Health
    • The Intensive Outpatient Treatment rotation is located at Suncloud Behavioral Health. The director of this rotation is Alexander Chevalier, MD, a child and adolescent psychiatrist and UIC CAP Fellowship graduate. The fellows have a four-month experience which involves participating in the treatment of adolescents as part of partial hospitalization and intensive outpatient program. During this experience they work with adolescents who have substance use disorders, eating disorders, and serious mental illness. There is the opportunity to refine motivational interviewing skills and be involved in group and individual treatment.
  7. Electives
    • The training director helps each resident entering the second year of training to develop areas of interest into personally designed electives. Electives are available at UIH and partner sites. The trainee's initial ideas are explored and refined. The training director acts as a networking resource to match trainee interests with faculty and sites. Electives generally are for 4 months for ½-1 day depending upon the specific elective. Common electives include women’s mental health, developmental disabilities, ECT, and research.