Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship
Mission & Vision
This fellowship offers specialized consultation-liaison psychiatry training to provide comprehensive psychiatry care in the critical care and emergency settings, inpatient medical, obstetrical and surgical wards, psycho-oncology, transplantation, 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-liaison psychiatry training to provide comprehensive psychiatry care in the critical care and emergency settings, inpatient medical, obstetrical and surgical wards, psycho-oncology, transplantation, 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
Program Director’s Welcome
Fellows provide specialty psychiatric care in the critical-care setting, emergency department, inpatient medical, obstetrical and surgical wards and rehabilitation units, as well as at Ryder Trauma Center at Jackson Memorial Hospital. They also rotate at Sylvester Cancer Center and University of Miami (UM) hospital, providing inpatient general psychiatric consultations and psycho-oncology consults. Fellows have the opportunity to train in ambulatory outpatient clinics including psycho-oncology, HIV-specialty, transplant, perinatal addiction, and human trafficking services.
Fellows are offered didactic, clinical, and scholarly activity supervision by consultation-liaison psychiatry faculty. Didactic activities include weekly seminars, clinical rounds, small group case discussions, board preparation reviews, journal club, morbidity and mortality meetings, and grand rounds. Weekly seminars are taught by core Consultation-Liaison faculty, as well as teaching faculty from other specialties at UM/Jackson Health System – including Addiction Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry, Psychology, Palliative Medicine and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Each fellow has the opportunity to teach and collaborate with psychiatry residents and medical students. Fellows have access to updated online journals and opportunities to attend annual psychiatry meetings, including the annual Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry meeting. Fellows are provided with protected time to participate in scholarly activities including quality improvement projects and/or an academic research project under board-certified faculty supervision.
Jackson Memorial Hospital is a university-affiliated county hospital and one of the largest public hospitals in the nation, which makes it the perfect sponsor for your consultation-liaison psychiatry training. Fellows gain outstanding experience in the psychiatric management of a variety of diverse patient populations, through evidenced-based and patient-centered care approaches. We utilize 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.
-Lujain Alhajji, MD
Description
Fellows are offered didactic, clinical, and scholarly activity supervision by consultation-liaison psychiatry faculty. Didactic activities include weekly seminars, clinical rounds, small group case discussions, board preparation reviews, journal club, morbidity and mortality meetings, and grand rounds. Weekly seminars are taught by core Consultation-Liaison faculty, as well as teaching faculty from other specialties at UM/Jackson Health System – including Addiction Psychiatry, Geriatric Psychiatry, Psychology, Palliative Medicine and Child & Adolescent Psychiatry. Each fellow has the opportunity to teach and collaborate with psychiatry residents and medical students. Fellows have access to updated online journals and opportunities to attend annual psychiatry meetings, including the annual Academy of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry meeting. Fellows are provided with protected time to participate in scholarly activities including quality improvement projects and/or an academic research project under board-certified faculty supervision.
Jackson Memorial Hospital is a university-affiliated county hospital and one of the largest public hospitals in the nation, which makes it the perfect sponsor for your consultation-liaison psychiatry training. Fellows gain outstanding experience in the psychiatric management of a variety of diverse patient populations, through evidenced-based and patient-centered care approaches. We utilize 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.
-Lujain Alhajji, MD
Fast Facts
Accreditation
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education
Number of Fellows per Year?
3
Duration of Fellowship?
1 year
Clinical Experience
Accordion
Clinical Experience
This fellowship offers specialized multidisciplinary consultation and liaison psychiatry training to a diverse patient population, emphasizing evidence-based and patient-centered care. Clinical experience includes both inpatient and outpatient experiences:
- Inpatient experience includes inpatient medical/surgical, critical care, psycho-oncology, reproductive and women’s health, transplant, emergency, trauma and burns, physical medicine and rehabilitation.
- Outpatient experience: Fellows choose one longitudinal clinic for the fellowship year, and accommodations may be provided if the fellow is interested in more than one clinic. Outpatient interdisciplinary clinics include HIV, psycho-oncology, transplant, human trafficking, and perinatal addiction.
Fellows are provided with protected educational time and a robust didactic curriculum. Fellows collaborate closely with psychiatry residents and medical students create an opportunity to expand their medical knowledge and teaching skills.
Daily:
- Clinical teaching in rounds/clinics
Weekly:
- CLP didactics, 2hrs/week
- JMH CL fellow/resident-led Case Conference/Journal Club
- UM CL fellow/resident-led Case Conference/Journal Club
- National Curriculum in Reproductive Psychiatry lectures
Biweekly:
- Departmental Grand Rounds
Monthly:
- Departmental M&M
- Departmental Journal Club
Ad hoc: Immersive clinical experience. Fellows may coordinate to join the following once during the fellowship based on their interest. Experiences include but is not limited to the functional neurological disorder clinic, movement disorders clinic, needle exchange program, physical medicine and rehab inpatient/outpatient rounds, eating disorders clinic, child and adolescent consult service.
Fellows are provided with weekly half days of protected time for scholarly activities. They will have the opportunity to develop a research project with the assistance of the teaching faculty. 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. Fellows are also required to participate in a quality improvement project.
Fellows are paired with a faculty mentor for weekly mentorship, which may include discussion of complex cases, career advising and development, board review, connecting with others in the field. The GME office also provides separate opportunities on career advising that fellows may utilize.
Your Faculty
Lujain Alhajji, MD
Associate Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
Director, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship Program
Zelde Espinel, MD
Associate Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
Daniel Maass, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
Omar Munoz, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
Dominique Musselman, MD
Associate Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
Vanessa L. Padilla, MD
Associate Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
Medical Director, Inpatient General Psychiatry Consultation Service at Jackson Memorial Hospital
Mitchell K. Rovner, MD
Assistant Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
Rakesh Sharma, MD
Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry
Medical Director, Inpatient General Psychiatry Consultation Service at UHealth Tower
Maria Rueda-Lara, MD
Associate Professor, Clinical Psychiatry
Medical Director, Inpatient Psycho-Oncology Consultation Service at UHealth Tower
Alumni Placements Include:
University of Miami/Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Miami Veterans Affair Health System
Correctional Mental Health in Miami-Dade County
Memorial Regional Hospital
East Carolina University
Talkiatry
Citrus Health Network
Private Practice
Alumni Placements Include:
University of Miami/Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Miami Veterans Affair Health System
Correctional Mental Health in Miami-Dade County
Memorial Regional Hospital
East Carolina University
Talkiatry
Citrus Health Network
Private Practice