Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship

Submit the following documents:

• ERAS Application (new starting July 2023)
• Personal Statement
• Two Recommendation Letters
• Third Recomendation Letter must be from you Adult Psychiatry Residency Program Director (this letter must document the training start date, all rotations completed and expected training end date)
• MSPE and Medical School Transcripts
• USMLE scores steps 1, 2, and 3
• Curriculum Vitae
• ECFMG certificate if applicable

Application materials will up uploaded into ERAS.

Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neuroscience
University of Chicago
5841 South Maryland Ave. MC 3077
Chicago, IL 60637

2024-2025 FELLOWSHIP STIPENDS RANGE:
PGY-5: $87,161
PGY-6: $88,978

VACATION
All fellows receive four weeks of paid vacation leave per year to be scheduled by mutual agreement between the resident, chief resident, service chief, and the Program Director.

SICK LEAVE
Five days of paid sick leave is granted to fellows who are absent from work and unable to perform their assigned duties due to illness.

OFFICES
All fellows have individual offices to see patients and accomplish other duties in a professional manner.  All offices are furnished with a computer.

Consult-liaison fellows at the University of Chicago enjoy a robust experience in leading the multidisciplinary C-L team. The C-L team is truly interdisciplinary combining psychiatry residents, Pritzker medical students, elective psychology interns, PGY 4 Neurology residents, an APN, a dedicated pharmacist and two dedicated social workers. The C-L team provides psychiatric services to medically ill hospitalized patients throughout the medical center. The C-L fellow gains experience in working with tertiary referral programs including oncology, inflammatory bowel disease, high risk pregnancy, trauma and a nationally ranked burn center.

Fellows gain extensive clinical experience in the evaluation and management of complex psychiatric problems in patients with significant surgical and medical co-morbidity.  Fellows have the opportunity to hone their liaison skills especially through their work with the McClean Medical Ethics Program

 

Longitudinal Clinic Experiences:
Psycho Oncology Clinic
Transplant Psychiatry Clinic
Neuropsychiatry Clinic
Women’s Mental Health Clinic
Behavioral Neurology Clinic
LGBTQ+ Clinic

 

Elective Experiences:
Fellowship in Medical Ethics
Fellowship in Medical Education
Neuroradiology

All Rotations are Site 1 University of Chicago Medicine
* Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry at University of Chicago
** Site is Primary Care Group at University of Chicago
*** Research or Electives at the University of Chicago

The University of Chicago Medical Center offers many unique experiences as part of the rich academic culture of the university.

• Leadership of the multidisciplinary Consult-Liaison team, which is comprised of residents in psychiatry and neurology, Pritzker medical students, psychology interns, two dedicated social workers and an APP.
• Participation in center wide case conferences through the Ethics and Complex Patients conferences
• Access to weekly CL case conference, departmental grand rounds, monthly morbidity, and mortality (M&M) conferences
• Weekly individual didactics
• Weekly supervision with the program director
• Supervision with a research advisor to plan and guide a research project. Collaboration with the Departmental Chair of Quality Improvement on a quality improvement project.
• Multiple interdisciplinary programs include neuroradiology, neurocritical care, behavioral neurology, trauma, the burn center, oncology, and palliative care.
• Other benefits of the one-year CL Fellowship include, no call requirement, no ED work required and protected time for didactics and research.

The University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) offers a unique environment for fellowship training in consultation psychiatry. It is distinguished by a dedication to rigor in the discovery and dissemination of knowledge. The UCMC lies at the heart of the University at the crossroads of distinguished schools of medicine, business, divinity and law. The work of the tertiary level medical center is performed in conjunction with cutting edge scientific programs affording the possibility to train in a unique milieu of scholarly endeavor, curiosity and mentorship

The goals of the fellowship in Consult-Liaison psychiatry are to provide the training opportunities in clinical care, teaching and scholarly activities necessary to pursue a career in academic Consult-Liaison psychiatry and successfully obtain specialty certification in Consult-Liaison psychiatry.

“I chose to do my CL fellowship at the University of Chicago because it offered an extremely supportive faculty who are motivated to teach and develop new CL specialists, a leading academic medical center allowing the CL team to collaborate with the other medical specialties, the opportunity to study clinical medical ethics in a dynamic setting” Tracy Binius 2016-17