Post Graduate Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship at University Hospitals Provides Comprehensive Training

In collaboration with Case Western Reserve University, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center provides a rich academic and educational environment for students, residents, fellows and beyond. The Post Graduate Year 5 (PGY-5) Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship provides comprehensive training in psychosomatic medicine through supervised clinical experience on the inpatient consultation service and the medical psychiatry unit, in the emergency department and in a variety of outpatient medical/surgical liaison clinics.

Fellows participate in core outpatient clinics in the following facilities:

• University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center
• University Hospitals MacDonald Women’s Hospital
• University Hospitals Rainbow Center for Women & Children
• University Hospitals Transplant Institute

Our University Hospitals Neurological Institute offers the opportunity to participate with a team of neurosurgeons, psychiatrists and neurologists in nine specialty centers, including:

• Brain tumor
• Epilepsy
• Memory
• Movement disorders
• Neuromuscular disorders
• Stroke

Research or an academic project with a faculty mentor is an expected component of fellowship training and a variety of potential projects are available through our subspecialty liaisons. Didactics is structured to include covering core topics in the first quarter of the year followed by an advanced didactic series involving case base discussion with topic experts while continuing to cover textbook chapters. This together prepares trainees to succeed on the CL board exam.