Description of Program

The University of Michigan Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship is a one-year ACGME-accredited fellowship with a strong multidisciplinary emphasis, and a flexible schedule that is tailored to match the fellow’s areas of interest. We are typically able to match 1 fellow per year.

The goal of our Fellowship is to provide high quality subspecialty training in consultation liaison psychiatry and to graduate fellows who are well equipped to practice in academic or private CL psychiatry settings. Our program provides a broad-based clinical experience, and opportunities to achieve skills in education, administration, and research, in an extraordinarily rich academic environment. Supervision is provided by attendings with board certification in consultation liaison psychiatry.

Fellows split training between 2 main clinical sites: 66% time at University of Michigan Health and 33% at the Ann Arbor Veterans Affairs Hospital. Fellows have flexibility in terms of the balance of inpatient versus outpatient rotations. The fellow rotates on the general adult consultation-liaison psychiatry service at the University of Michigan Hospital and the VA Hospital. Elective rotations include but are not limited to: transplant psychiatry (both an inpatient and outpatient service), reproductive psychiatry, palliative medicine, psych-oncology, HIV psychiatry, inpatient addiction consultation, child/adolescent consult service, collaborative care, movement disorders, cognitive disorders, and interventional psychiatry (ECT, TMS, ketamine). The average fellow works 40-50 hours per week with no call at night or weekends. External moonlighting is permitted within the 80 hour work week limit.

Consultation liaison psychiatry fellows, along with all University of Michigan house officers, are represented by the House Officers Association (HOA) and receive excellent benefits and compensation based on a contract negotiated by the HOA. The benefits package includes health, dental, and disability insurance, vacation days and holiday pay, and more.

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