The psychiatric inpatient unit at Children’s Medical Center of Dallas has 12 beds and admits children and adolescents between the ages of 2-18 years. Approximately 180 patients are admitted to this unit each year. Residents function as team leaders of a multidisciplinary treatment team and provide evaluation, integrated multimodal treatment plans for individual, group, family therapies and psychopharmacology for hospitalized children and adolescents. Supervision is provided by Stephanie Setliff, M.D., Medical Director, Tyler Wooten, M.D., Assistant Medical Director, psychologists, and social workers. Dr. Setliff is involved in research on eating disorders in adolescents. Lecture is held weekly on the inpatient unit covering interview, systems model, individual, family and group therapy, psychopharmacology, psychological testing, milieu therapy, administration of psychiatric services and managing medical psychiatric problems. Rounds are held daily with the attending and the other interdisciplinary team members.
By the end of the rotation, residents will demonstrate an adequate fund of knowledge in the area of clinical sciences relevant to the practice of inpatient child and adolescent psychiatry. Residents are expected to exhibit progressive improvement in their level of knowledge, interpersonal skills, patient care, practice-based learning, professionalism, and systems-based care, as relate to inpatient child and adolescent psychiatry work throughout the rotation. Methods of demonstration may include effective medication management; conducting a biopsychosocial evaluation of children and adolescents in an inpatient and partial hospital setting; conducting multimodal treatment of children and adolescents; effectively utilizing a therapeutic milieu; understanding the special aspects of evaluation and treatment of children and adolescents with medical and psychiatric problems combined; the care of patients and families; participation in didactics and clinical conferences, presentations, and examinations.
This first year rotation consists of 5 months broken into two rotations of 2 ½ months each.
