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Triple Board Residency

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Training Sequence

Residents at 2006 Child Psychiatry retreat.

The Triple Board Resident Training Program at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center is a five-year program that combines training in Pediatrics, Psychiatry, and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. The training sequence for each year is:

First Year

  • 11 months pediatrics
    • 7 months inpatient, including one month normal newborn and one month neonatal intensive care
    • 4 months outpatient, including emergency room and Division of Developmental Disabilities
  • 1 month inpatient child psychiatry
  • Pediatric continuity clinic (weekly)
  • 4 weeks of vacation during outpatient pediatrics

Second Year

  • 7 months adult psychiatry
    • 4 months inpatient wards
    • 3 months chemical dependency, psychiatric emergency room, and consult-liaison
  • 1 month inpatient child psychiatry
  • 4 months pediatrics
    • 2 months inpatient pediatrics including neonatal intensive care unit and team leading
    • 2 months outpatient pediatrics, including adolescent medicine and emergency room
  • Pediatric continuity clinic (weekly)
  • Supervised adult psychotherapy during 2nd half of the year (weekly)
  • 2 weeks of vacation during pediatrics and 2 weeks during adult psychiatry

Third Year

  • 10 months adult psychiatry
    • 8 months outpatient adult psychiatry
    • 2 months adult consultation psychiatry / emergency / chemical dependency
  • 2 months pediatrics
    • 1 month pediatric intensive care unit
    • 1 month pediatric outpatient child neurology
  • Pediatric continuity clinic (weekly)
  • Supervised adult outpatient psychotherapy (weekly)
  • 4 weeks of vacation during outpatient adult psychiatry

Fourth Year

  • 1 month adult psychiatry (outpatient adult neurology)
  • 7 months pediatrics
    • 2 months of inpatient pediatrics, including team leading and neonatal intensive care unit
    • 5 months pediatric electives
  • 4 months of child and adolescent psychiatry
    • 1 month emergency psychiatry and adolescent chemical dependency unit
    • 1 month consult-liaison
    • 2 months inpatient, including weekly outpatient psychopharmacology clinic
  • Pediatric continuity clinic (every other week alternating with an optional second clinic)
  • Supervised adult / child outpatient psychotherapy weekly (optional)
  • 2 weeks vacation during pediatrics and 2 weeks vacation during child psychiatry

Fifth Year

  • 12 months outpatient child and adolescent psychiatry, including psychopharmacology clinics, psychotherapy, early development and abuse, forensics, school consultation, and community consultation
  • Pediatric continuity clinic (every other week alternating with second clinic)
  • 4 weeks vacation during child psychiatry