Since 1983 the Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University has maintained a fully
accredited ACGME Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency Training Program. In 2014
we also added an additional program accredited by the ABPN for fully trained pediatricians
called the Post Pediatric Portal Program (PPPP). The PPPP allows pediatricians to
engage in training in both Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) in
a three year integrated program that leads to credentialing in both Psychiatry and
CAP. In general, the goal of CAP training at MCG is to recruit bright, energetic,
highly motivated physicians who want to become child and adolescent psychiatrists
and to provide opportunities for development into any of the myriad of possibilities
for practice and leadership in the field of child and adolescent psychiatry. The Program
strives to create a learning environment that motivates the trainee toward independent
lifelong learning and experiential learning, promoting a developmental approach to
the comprehensive assessment, diagnosis and evidence based treatment of the wide range
of child, adolescent and family psychopathology, integrating biological, psychological
and social interactive influences with typical development across the life cycle through
adolescence.
Our program is fortunate to be in an institution that is nationally known for its
focus on patient and family centered care in pediatrics and in a department that has
been a national leader in the recovery model in general psychiatry. This environment
facilitates our goals of integrating biological, neurological and social sciences
to focus excellent science in such a way as to make our work with families patient
and family centered, involving the family and patient throughout the process. We augment
this approach with experiential learning about culture and spirituality and its influence
on the family’s approach to and acceptance of psychiatric interventions. Our trainees
not only are well trained in child and adolescent psychiatry basics but in the broader
aspects of what our field means to the family and the community, thus making our work
more effective and more collaborative.
The specific goals of the child and adolescent psychiatry training include acquiring the skills and knowledge along with the attitudes to:
Integrate patient and family centered as well as Recovery model approaches into the daily practice of child and adolescent psychiatry.
