Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship
Creighton University School of Medicine – Phoenix’s fellowship program in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry is ready to welcome you to the desert southwest.
This two-year fellowship is accredited by the ACGME (Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education). Currently, our program recruits for 4 positions each year.
Our Philosophy
Our fellowship is committed to developing future child psychiatrists who are knowledgeable, empathic and able to provide leadership in the care of diverse children. At Valleywise Behavioral Health Center – Mesa fellows are part of the treatment team on an innovative inpatient adolescent unit based on a Collaborative and Proactive Solutions model developed by Dr. Ross Greene. Fellows also staff the Valleywise Behavioral Health Center – Mesa Outpatient Clinic, providing comprehensive assessment and psychiatric care including medication, psychotherapy and parent guidance for children and families in need. While providing services in the community, fellows have access to a variety of unique training experiences with specialized populations throughout the Valley, including rotations focused on child maltreatment, children birth to five and school consultation with Native American children.
While offering diverse training opportunities, we pride ourselves on providing fellows with a warm, supportive, family-friendly environment where they can acquire current and critical knowledge and develop professionally as psychiatrists. With four fellows a year, our program is able to be very responsive to individual fellows’ needs and interests. Fellows routinely create electives based on special interests.
Our mission is to develop child psychiatrists who have the knowledge and clinical skills to optimally treat diverse and seriously mentally ill children and their families, and the interpersonal skills and compassion to engage those children and their families as active participants in their care, development, and well-being.
Our program's mission aligns with the mission of Valleywise Health Medical Center to provide exceptional care to every patient, to improve community health, and also aligns with its values regarding how patients and families are treated.
Our program's mission aligns with the Creighton mission to improve the human condition, and also aligns with its vision to develop leaders in medicine, health, and well-being.
Valleywise Health Medical Center Mission Statement:
- Our mission is to provide exceptional care, without exception, every patient, every time.
- Our vision is to be nationally recognized for transforming care to improve community health.
- Our values guide how we treat each other, our patients, families and visitors.
Creighton Mission Statement:
- In Creighton’s Jesuit, Catholic tradition, the mission of the School of Medicine is to improve the human condition with a diverse body of students, faculty and staff who provide excellence in educating learners, healthcare professionals, and the public; advancing knowledge; and, providing comprehensive patient care.
- Vision: United by our Jesuit, Catholic identity, we transform learners into exceptional healthcare professionals and scientists who are leaders in advancing medicine, health, and well-being.
- To train child and adolescent psychiatrists with understanding of childhood development, with experience in the assessment and treatment of children aged birth to 5 and children with neurodevelopmental disorders such as autism spectrum disorder (ASD.)
- To develop child and adolescent psychiatrists who have exposure to and knowledge of various cultures and who understand how their own culture and family systems impact the physician-patient relationship.
- To develop child and adolescent psychiatrists who feel enthusiasm for the field and find a sense of meaning (one aspect of Well-Being) in treating and improving the lives of children with psychiatric illness and developmental needs within our local community.
The Creighton University Arizona Health Education Alliance
In 2017, Dignity Health St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center (SJHMC), Creighton University (CUSOM), Valleywise Health, and District Medical Group (DMG) joined forces to form the Creighton University Arizona Health Education Alliance. The Creighton University Arizona Health Education Alliance supports Creighton University School of Medicine - Phoenix Graduate Medical Education by providing strategic, financial and operational resources.
