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The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry training program at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine is part of a combined General Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) 5-year integrated program. Applicants will typically apply right out of medical school and commit to doing both general psychiatry and CAP at the same program. The first 3 years of the program will be mostly adult psychiatry with a few CAP rotations intermixed. During the internship year the experiences will be in pediatrics and family medicine. This type of program is often referred to as a “Child Track”

What do patients expect, require, and desire: a qualitative study of hospitalized psychiatric patients’ from psychiatric services and treatment Investigators : Kiran Munir, MD (Child Fellow) Jan Hill-Jordan, PhD (Faculty, Dept. of Psychiatry) Vinod Alluri, MD (Faculty, Adult Division) Objective: This study is designed to explore psychiatric patients’ expectations, requirements, desires, and satisfaction from inpatient psychiatric services during the course of their hospitalization. Background: Psychiatrists today utilize innovative psycho-pharmaceutical approaches to correct chemical

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The Division of Child Psychiatry at SIU School of Medicine was created to provide psychiatric and behavioral health services to the youth of central and southern Illinois. Our shared vision is that all young people will develop to their fullest potential emotionally, behaviorally and interpersonally with a goal of living their lives with a sense of self-worth, competence and connection to others. Our mission is to develop and promote practices that foster mental health, detect areas of dysfunction and provide treatment and support to children, their families and communities in which they live

Published in Aspects Magazine, Autumn 2016 | Vol. 39 No. 4 Fourteen-year-old Alyssa* is no ordinary teenager; she has dealt with more trauma in three years than many people will experience in a lifetime. At age 11, Alyssa lost her father after a long battle with cancer. Just a year later, she was sexually abused by her mother’s first love interest since losing her husband; and at 13, the young girl’s trauma was magnified when her mother was diagnosed with breast cancer. She developed a fear of strangers and men, withdrew from her friends and experienced extreme anxiety. To help, Alyssa and her

Mission The Southern Illinois University School of Medicine (SIU SOM) Children’s Asthma Program will create a community coalition to identify children at greatest risk for severe illness and school absenteeism from pediatric asthma and provide a medicine and home based trigger reduction strategy to improve their health outcomes. Background Asthma is a critical problem in central Illinois. Sangamon County, the home of SIU SOM, is the eighth worst county for asthma hospitalization rates in Illinois. This problem is only magnified when examining our most vulnerable children. The poorest zip code

Children’s Asthma Program Asthma is a critical problem in central Illinois. Sangamon County, the home of SIU SOM, is the eighth worst county for asthma hospitalization rates in Illinois. This problem is only magnified when examining our most vulnerable children. The poorest zip code in Sangamon County averages nearly 15 times as many emergency room visits for children with uncontrolled asthma than the wealthiest one. Read More PAST PROJECTS Big Data Analysis SIUSOM serves 66 counties in central and southern Illinois. This service region constitutes over 25,000 square miles and over 2 million

Wearing sunscreen outdoors throughout the year, and especially during the hot summer months, is an important lifestyle habit that can protect your skin and improve your health. When used as directed, sunscreen can reduce your risk of skin cancer—the most common type of cancer in the United States—and even help you avoid common age-related skin woes like wrinkles, fine lines and sunspots. In the past few years, however, several sunscreen products from popular brands like Neutrogena®, Aveeno® and Coppertone® have been recalled over concerns that they contain trace amounts of a cancer-causing

The Center for Human and Organizational Potential invites team members to join its new book club. "One of our strategies for developing a mindset around leadership and excellence across the organization is to begin a movement of book clubs across SIU School of Medicine," said John Mellinger, MD, leader of the cHOP's leadership and excellence initiatives. "The clubs will involve small group meetings with colleagues for an hour, once a month, over the course of a year." Books will be provided, and each month approximately one chapter will be discussed. The book club will kick off with "The Truth