Rotations

Clinical rotations in our fellowship give you in-depth experience with the range of therapy modalities, responsibilities and roles key to child and adolescent psychiatry, from working with families of developmentally disabled children to evaluating youth for the juvenile justice system.

Year 1

  • Acute Adolescent Inpatient Services
    9/19/24
    In addition to evaluating admissions, developing treatment plans and managing medications, you assume a primary therapist role for your own patients during this rotation.
  • Children’s Psychiatry Clinic
    9/19/24
    In these rotations, which occur in both years of your fellowship, you will evaluate and treat preschoolers to adolescents in an outpatient setting.
  • Intermediate Length of Stay Inpatient Services
    11/21/17
    You will evaluate and treat school-age children and adolescents with a range of diagnostic problems in this key first-year rotation.
  • Pediatric Consultation-Liaison
    9/19/24
    On this service, you will consult with pediatricians, obstetricians and surgeons.

Year 2

  • Children’s Psychiatry Clinic
    9/19/24
    In these rotations, which occur in both years of your fellowship, you will evaluate and treat preschoolers to adolescents in an outpatient setting.
  • Autism Diagnostic Clinic
    9/19/24
    You will attend the Women and Children’s Hospital of Buffalo’s Autism Center Diagnostic Clinic at least twice to perform evaluations on children referred to the clinic with a licensed psychologist specializing in autism.
  • Child and Adolescent Mobile Psychiatric Services (CAMPS)
    9/19/24
    Our CAMPS team, run out of the Children’s Psychiatry Clinic, serves children and adolescents who struggle to attend their in-clinic outpatient appointments.
  • Day Treatment
    9/19/24
    You will observe, consult and provide care in a school managed by the Western New York Children’s Psychiatric Center during this one-month rotation.
  • Forensic/Community Systems Consultation
    9/19/24
    Throughout your residency you will have opportunities to work with the legal system. This rotation, however, provides systematic, concentrated experience in this crucial area.
  • Pediatric Neurology
    9/19/24
    You will evaluate patients from infancy to age 18 during this second-year rotation, contributing to decisions on pharmacological management of neurological conditions.
  • School Consultation Clinic
    9/19/24
    In this rotation, you will have the opportunity to work with children and educators in a school setting.
  • Treatment for the Effective Management of Pediatric OCD (TEMPO)
    9/19/24
    The TEMPO clinic, based in the Children’s Psychiatry Clinic, serves children, adolescents, and their families who are struggling to manage OCD.