Thank you for your interest in the University of Chicago Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship Training Program.
The 12-month Consultation-Liaison (CL) Psychiatry Fellowship at the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine (PSOM) received accreditation by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) in 2010. Graduates of this program are eligible to take the ABPN subspecialty C-L examination.
Clinical training in this one-year fellowship occurs on the inpatient CL service at the University of Chicago Medical Center. This provides the opportunity to train in the evaluation and management of a wide range of medically and surgically complex hospitalized patients. The CL team is truly interdisciplinary, combining psychiatry and neurology residents, medical students, neuropsychology, a dedicated APN, a dedicated pharmacist, and two dedicated social workers. Graduates of the program have valued the administrative experience gained from managing a large multidisciplinary team and interfacing with primary consulting services across, but not limited to, oncology, high-risk obstetrics, trauma, and a nationally ranked burn center.
Supervised outpatient subspecialty opportunities include rotations in psycho-oncology, behavioral neurology, transplantation psychiatry, neuropsychiatry, reproductive psychiatry, and medically complex psychiatry. Elective experiences include neuroradiology, palliative care, neuromodulation, collaborative care, and others tailored to the fellow’s professional interests.
Ongoing didactics are provided by key faculty and include teaching rounds, didactic lectures, case conferences, and case-based seminars. Supervision and support for scholarly activity are integral to the program. Upon matching we invite our fellows to join our dedicated CL Writing Group, which includes both trainees and our program faculty. Many opportunities exist for interdisciplinary and interdepartmental research.
Our fellowship also offers two concurrent part-time fellowship tracks. The track in medical education, research, innovation, teaching, and scholarship (MERITS) through the PSOM provides structured training in curricular developmental and educational scholarship for those interested in becoming clinician-educators. It also has solid didactic components aimed at enabling our trainees to gain the knowledge base, clinical competencies, and leadership skills to be thought leaders in the expanding field of CL. Finally, it is with great pleasure that I invite you to consider the track in medical ethics through the renowned MacLean Center for Medical Ethics. This is one of the oldest medical ethics programs in the country, taught by a unique and varied faculty, and represents a truly distinctive opportunity to develop as a leader at the intersection of psychiatry, medicine, and ethics.
Marie Tobin, MD FACLP
Professor of Adult Psychiatry