Contributing Authors: Elise M. Fallucco, MD, and Stephanie V. Sims, MD
Overview: The child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at the University of Florida College of Medicine – Jacksonville is a small program in northeastern Florida with two fellows per class. The mission of the program is to train child and adolescent psychiatrists to positively impact the health of youth and their families through excellence in direct clinical care as well as through consultation to the community. This community-based program is not affiliated with a department of neuroscience, but does include a required clinical rotation in pediatric neurology in which fellows observe pediatric neurology attendings perform inpatient consults and evaluate and treat youth in an outpatient subspecialty clinic.
Author Affiliation: Elise M. Fallucco, MD, and Stephanie V. Sims, MD are from the University of Florida College of Medicine — Jacksonville. The NNCI is supported by the National Institutes of Health Grant Nos. R25 MH086466-07S1 and R44 MH115546-02 and with additional funding from the Society of Biological Psychiatry and the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology. ©National Neuroscience Curriculum Initiative.
