UM/Sheppard Pratt Psychiatry Residency Program

Fellowships

(Note: All Fellowships include formal didactics and case conferences, and regular individualized supervision.)

Addiction Psychiatry: A 1-year ACGME-accredited fellowship (with the possibility of a second year in research). Rotations include consultation, day treatment, adolescent, inpatient, dual diagnosis, EAP, primary care at the Baltimore VA, Tuerk House, and University Hospital.

Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: A 2-year ACGME-accredited fellowship, jointly sponsored with Sheppard Pratt Hospital and the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene. Entry after the PGY-III year. Teaching the diagnostic, consultative, and therapeutic skills essential to practicing child and adolescent psychiatry. Emphasis on child and adolescent development, early intervention and prevention, and community child psychiatry. Director: Kenneth Rogers, M.D.

Community Psychiatry: A 1-year fellowship. Trains psychiatrist leaders in community settings. Placement as a clinician/administrator, under supervision, on a mobile treatment team, which is part of a highly organized system of care in Baltimore City. There is also a research component and contact with multiple levels of the system. Director: Ann Hackman, M.D.

Psychosomatic Medicine (Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry): This is a 1-year ACGME accredited fellowship. This fellowship will prepare the psychiatrist to provide expert consultation on patients with medical illnesses in a wide variety of settings. Outpatient consultation experiences are available in a primary care medical clinic, an HIV clinic, a vocational rehabilitation center, and with a variety of specialty medical and surgical patients. Inpatient consultation sites include the R. Adams Cowley Shock-Trauma Center, The Greenebaum Cancer Center, the Baltimore VA Hospital and University Hospital with its multitude of specialty services including nephrology, organ transplantation, HIV, neurology/neurosurgery, cardiology and OB/GYN. The fellow will have the opportunity to participate in the ambulatory psychiatry training program for internal medicine residents, as well as teach medical students and psychiatry residents. The educational program consists of seminars, case conferences, and individual supervision provided for all clinical activities.

Completion of an approved psychiatric residency program is required.

To apply or to obtain more information, please contact:

Mark J. Ehrenreich, M.D.
Director, Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry
Department of Psychiatry
Box 349
University of Maryland Medical System
22 S. Greene Street
Baltimore, Maryland 21201
Phone: (410) 328-6090 or (410) 328-6091
Email: mehrenre@psych.umaryland.edu

Forensic Psychiatry: A 1-year ACGME-accredited fellowship. Rotations include court consultation, Clifton T. Perkins Hospital, U. of Maryland School of Law, various correctional facilities, and private practice settings. Director: Annette Hanson, M.D.

Geriatric Psychiatry: A 1-year ACGME-accredited fellowship. Many rotations, including nursing home, home treatment, outpatient, inpatient, etc. Sites include the Baltimore VA, Perry Point VA, and University Hospital. Director: Paul Ruskin, M.D.

Research (Maryland Psychiatric Research Center): A 2-year Schizophrenia Clinical Research Training Program sponsored by the National Institute of Mental Health. Mentored research and workshops and seminars in the outpatient research program, the inpatient residential program, the motor disorder clinic, the treatment research unit, or the neuroscience program. Director: Brian Kirkpatrick, M.D.

This page was last updated on: June 18, 2009.

For more information, call the University Physicians Consultation and Referral Service at 1-800-492-5538 (patients) or 1-800-373-4111 (physicians).