Admission to the SIU Department of Psychiatry Child and Adolescent
Fellowship Program may be through one of the three pathways specified
in this procedure. For individuals who are applying while still in their general
residency training, they must provide documentation of satisfactory perfor-
mance in their training program. Individuals who have completed their general
psychiatry training, must furnish evidence of successfully completing their
training along with evidence of acceptable clinical practice in any interval
between the completion of general psychiatry training and their application
for a child and adolescent psychiatry training slot. All applicants must have
passed USMLE Steps I, II and III to be eligible for admission. 

Individuals applying for child and adolescent training may enter the program
on one of three tracts. Only applicants with experience or exceptional
performance records and an obvious interest in pursuing child and adolescent
psychiatry would be considered for option 2 or 3 below. These options
would only be considered if positions remain open after the match.

1. They may apply for a two year block taken after the completion of their
   PGY-3 or PGY-4 year. The program will attempt to fill all positions through
   the child psychiatry match process. If there are vacant positions after
   that match process, qualified applicants may be accepted on a case by case basis.
2. Residents inside the SIU Department of Psychiatry general residency may
   apply to do their child fellowship training in two blocks. A six month block
   focusing on inpatient in their second or third year, followed by a 1.5 year
   block encompassing the latter half of their PGY-4 year and all their PGY-5
   year. Individuals who complete the six month block successfully and later
   elect to not complete their child and adolescent psychiatry training will be
   allowed to use the six month block as counting two months to the general
   psychiatry requirement in child and adolescent psychiatry and the other four
   months would be allowed to be counted as elective time.
3. General psychiatry residents may be allowed to do their two year child and
   adolescent psychiatry fellowship in a single two-year block following PGY-1 or
   PGY-2 if that resident has previous extensive counseling and psychotherapy
   experience documented which would indicate that the resident has the skills
   necessary to do psychotherapy work with parents and children. Admission to
   the fellowship on this third pathway would be at the sole discretion of the
   fellowship admissions committee.

Interested applicants should contact Ruth Stark, Program Coordinator, SIU Child
and Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program at rstark@siumed.edu.