About
The University of Hawai鈥榠 John A. Burns School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry (DoP) offers a two-year Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Training Program accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME). Psychiatry residents can apply to join after completing either after their PGY-3 (fast tracking) or PGY-4 training.
The program is based at the Kapiolani Medical Center for Women & Children (KMCWC), the only dedicated pediatric and maternal hospital affiliated with the University of 喵喵直播, John A. Burns School of Medicine. The hospital serves Hawai`i and the Pacific Basin and contains both faculty and administrative offices.
The Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Training Program began in 1970 as the first subspecialty training program of the Department of Psychiatry with a complement of six positions; three PGY-4 and three PGY-5 fellows.
The program’s core purpose aligns with the overall mission for the John A. Burn’s School of Medicine, the Queen’s Medical Center and the Department of Psychiatry and that is to be a leader in providing child & adolescent psychiatric education and training to fellows that exposes them to:
- A broad spectrum of state-of-the art child & adolescent psychiatric care of patients.
- Development of new models of care.
- Treatment of all child & adolescent patients including special populations with a commitment to the disadvantaged, indigent and severely mentally ill.
- Research in both psychosocial and neurobiological, in the areas of epidemiology, special population research, cultural psychiatry and prevention and treatment intervention, community-action, and policy among the ethnic groups of 喵喵直播, Asia and the Pacific.
The University of 喵喵直播 Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program strives to recruit and train highly motivated individuals that enjoy working collaboratively in teams to provide excellent clinical care to multi-cultural children, families and communities. In addition to mastering the basic skills of child & adolescent psychiatry, our trainees become skilled in utilizing a biopsychosociocultural approach to diagnosis and treatment, evidence-informed patient care practices, family/system of care perspective and life-long learning and critical appraisal skills. We expect that our graduates will become leaders and advocates within our field.
To graduate competent child & adolescent psychiatrists who can:
- Evaluate and manage the broad spectrum of child & adolescent psychiatric disorders in a variety of settings with advanced skills in
- Developmentally based diagnostic & management of children of all ages & their families.
- Outpatient, consultation-liaison and systems-based child psychiatry to assist children and families and teams working with them.
- Working within a children鈥檚 system of care to achieve good child and family outcomes.
- Manage emergency child & adolescent psychiatry and acute mental health issues in an economically and ethnically diverse patient population.
- Assume diverse contemporary roles, including clinical services, administration, consultation, teaching, advocacy, policy making and research.
- Provide care within 喵喵直播鈥檚 mental health system of care as well as other culturally diverse settings.
Core Faculty & Staff
The University of Hawai鈥檌 Child & Adolescent Psychiatry is made up of a diverse team of faculty physicians with various backgrounds, training and experience who educate the residents and fellows in both the didactic / seminar setting and a wide variety of clinical learning environments exposing them to clinicians with breadth of strengths and styles while providing quality child & adolescent psychiatric care to the children of Hawai鈥檌.