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Thank you for your interest in UCI School of Medicine’s Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) Fellowship training program. Our goal is to prepare our fellows for the plethora of opportunities that are available to them at the conclusion of their training. To this end, we strive to provide a diverse range of training settings and mentorship while maintaining the camaraderie and collegiality we feel is vital to the growth of the individual physician.

The supportive environment we foster at UCI enables our fellows to complement their developing knowledge base and clinical decision-making skills with a compassionate, humanistic approach. Our program emphasizes training in biological, psychological and social modalities, as we strongly believe that a multidisciplinary approach is central to providing excellent psychiatric care to children, adolescents and their families.

The program’s clinical experiences have been developed to provide exposure to the wide variety of psychiatric diagnoses and issues facing children and adolescents, as well as to prepare our fellows for the diverse populations they may encounter post-graduation.

Our full-time, part-time and volunteer faculty members are dedicated to the education of our trainees. In turn, we support our fellows in becoming effective educators in their work with residents, medical students and ancillary staff, as we value teaching as a vital component of professional development.

The CAP Fellowship has two tracks:

  1. Categorical track in child and adolescent psychiatry: We offer four fellowship positions per year, for a total of eight fellows during the two-year program. Our recent graduates have established themselves in various settings, including staying in academia (UCI and elsewhere), establishing their own private practices in Orange County and working in the county mental health programs and community hospitals. A few have chosen to complete additional training in forensic psychiatry.
  2. Research/clinical track: In 2023, the program established this track to address the growing shortage of child and adolescent psychiatrists who are pursuing academic research careers and to cultivate mentors to succeeding generations of child psychiatrists. We hope to attract future child and adolescent psychiatrists who support translational research that results in effective prevention and treatment options for children with psychiatric disorders. Currently, we offer one fellowship position in this track that has a separate NRMP number. In addition to spending time with a faculty research mentor, the fellows also partake in educational/didactic and clinical rotations to meet the ABPN and ACGME board and training requirements.

I invite you to review the other portions of our website to learn more about our program. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you have additional questions or require further information. Thank you for considering our program. We hope to learn more about you and your passion for child and adolescent psychiatry.

Paramjit T. Joshi, MD
Fellowship Training Director