Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship
Mission & Vision
This fellowship offers specialized consultation and liaison psychiatry training to provide comprehensive psychiatry care in the critical care setting, inpatient medical, obstetrical and surgical wards, rehabilitation units and ambulatory care settings.
Our program serves to develop medical leaders with expertise in the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of patients with complex medical and psychiatric comorbidities.
Mission & Vision
This fellowship offers specialized consultation and liaison psychiatry training to provide comprehensive psychiatry care in the critical care setting, inpatient medical, obstetrical and surgical wards, rehabilitation units and ambulatory care settings.
Our program serves to develop medical leaders with expertise in the evaluation, diagnosis and treatment of patients with complex medical and psychiatric comorbidities.
Program Director’s Welcome
We appreciate your interest in our program and look forward to showing you what makes us so proud of the University of Miami/Jackson Health System Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship Program.
Program Director’s Welcome
We appreciate your interest in our program and look forward to showing you what makes us so proud of the University of Miami/Jackson Health System Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship Program.
Fellows provide specialty psychiatric care in the critical-care setting, inpatient medical, obstetrical and surgical wards and rehabilitation units, as well as at Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. Fellows have the opportunity to work in psycho-oncology and/or HIV-specialty ambulatory care settings. Areas of specialized training include cardiovascular medicine, HIV, perinatal psychiatry, psycho-oncology and transplant psychiatry.
Fellows are offered didactic, clinical and research supervision by consultation-liaison psychiatry faculty. Didactic activities include clinical rounds, case vignette discussions, board preparation review and grand rounds. Each fellow has the opportunity to teach psychiatry residents and medical students. Fellows have access to updated online journals and opportunities to attend annual psychiatry meetings. An academic research project is encouraged to be completed by each fellow under the supervision of faculty members.
Jackson Memorial Hospital is a large, university-affiliated county hospital and is the perfect sponsor for your consultation-liaison psychiatry training. Fellows gain outstanding experience in the psychiatric management of a variety of patient populations, through a culturally informed, evidenced-based and patient-centered care approach, along with effective liaison competencies to collaborate with primary teams and other healthcare providers.
The surroundings in which you train are also an important aspect of selecting a fellowship training program and Miami is a wonderful place to both live and work. Situated in one of the world’s premier destinations, we invite you to come see for yourself why patients, faculty and students from across the country and world are drawn to Miami and the UM/Jackson Health System.
-Vanessa L. Padilla, MD
Description
Fellows are offered didactic, clinical and research supervision by consultation-liaison psychiatry faculty. Didactic activities include clinical rounds, case vignette discussions, board preparation review and grand rounds. Each fellow has the opportunity to teach psychiatry residents and medical students. Fellows have access to updated online journals and opportunities to attend annual psychiatry meetings. An academic research project is encouraged to be completed by each fellow under the supervision of faculty members.
Jackson Memorial Hospital is a large, university-affiliated county hospital and is the perfect sponsor for your consultation-liaison psychiatry training. Fellows gain outstanding experience in the psychiatric management of a variety of patient populations, through a culturally informed, evidenced-based and patient-centered care approach, along with effective liaison competencies to collaborate with primary teams and other healthcare providers.
The surroundings in which you train are also an important aspect of selecting a fellowship training program and Miami is a wonderful place to both live and work. Situated in one of the world’s premier destinations, we invite you to come see for yourself why patients, faculty and students from across the country and world are drawn to Miami and the UM/Jackson Health System.
-Vanessa L. Padilla, MD
Fast Facts
Accreditation
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Number of Fellows per Year?
2
Duration of Fellowship?
1 year
Clinical Experience
Year 1
By means of individual supervision, small-group seminars, grand rounds, didactic lectures, case conferences, as well as scholarly and research participation related to clinical material and basic sciences, we provide a comprehensive training program for consultation-liaison psychiatry.
Educational & Other Experience
Areas of subspecialty expertise training include the evaluation and treatment of: (1) transplant patients with end-stage organ disease, (2) cancer patients, (3) pregnant and postpartum patients with complex psychiatric disorders, (4) intensive care unit patients with psychopathology in the setting of severe medical illness and (5) general hospital consultation patients admitted into medical and surgical wards in need of expert psychiatric consultation.
Research
Fellows will have the opportunity to develop a research project with the assistance of the teaching faculty. Monthly research meetings are held to monitor the progress of the fellow’s identified research project. The expectation is that, with mentorship from the teaching faculty, the fellow will be able to complete a research project to present at a national meeting or to submit for publication.
Your Faculty
Lujain Alhajji, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
Dominique Musselman, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
Vanessa L. Padilla, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
Director, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship Program
Maria Rueda-Lara, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
Radu V. Saveanu, MD
Director, Psychiatry Residency Training Program
Professor and Chair (Interim), Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Psychiatrist-in-Chief, UHealth System and Jackson Health System
Alumni Placements Include:
BronxCare Health System
Citrus Health Network
County of Santa Cruz Health Services Agency
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Miami
Alumni Placements Include:
BronxCare Health System
Citrus Health Network
County of Santa Cruz Health Services Agency
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
University of Miami