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The Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry celebrates our recent 5-year ACGME accreditation through 2015.
This speaks to our faculty's strong devotion to teaching and education, led by our Previous Program Director, Dr. Ayesha Lall.
The Department of Psychiatry offers residency training in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry for selected residents who have completed at least the PGY-1 year of training. We are ACGME approved for eight positions, and we recently obtained re-accreditation for 5 year through 2015. Our program prepares fellows according to guidelines recommended by the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (AACAP) and by the Committee on Child and Adolescent Psychiatry of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology (ABPN). The training includes normal and abnormal child development with didactic seminars on cognitive, psychodynamic, social, and biological treatment approaches, including anatomical and biochemical studies. Supervised observations of normal children of all ages from birth through high school are provided. Clinical experiences are arranged with children and adolescents from the most severely disturbed, such as developmental disorders and central nervous system disorders, to the mildly disturbed, neurotic patients. Both Child Psychiatry and Pediatric Neurology faculty provide supervision with input from Clinical Child Psychologists, neuropsychologists, speech pathologists, psychiatric nurses and a multitude of other professionals.
Building on the resources of the Department of Psychiatry, the Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (DCAP) offers a diverse faculty, a comprehensive didactic curriculum, and modern inpatient and outpatient clinical facilities. Our program produces graduates who are clinically astute, academically well-rounded, with strong professional values and ready to assume successful leadership roles in the field.
Division Chief: Daniel Tucker, M.D.
Program Director: Kimberly White, M.D.
Program Coordinator: Katy Hall
Phone: (352)294-5191
Fax: (352)846-1455
Email: Dcap@psychiatry.ufl.edu
The Department of Psychiatry at the University of Florida College of Medicine in Gainesville, Florida, is a large multi-faceted program centered in a major academic medical center. The Department of Psychiatry focuses on the three central missions of clinical care, research and education to govern its department of psychiatry divisions. Nationally recognized for ground-breaking research projects in Autism, Brain Stimulation (ECT, TMS, DBS) , Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Alcoholism and Drug Abuse, the Department of Psychiatry provides state-of-the-art research, inpatient and outpatient evaluation & treatment locations in Gainesville, Central Florida and Indian River County. The Department has over 60 full-time Faculty researchers and treatment experts . The University of Florida College of Medicine is proud to offer evidenced-based treatment programs for Impaired Health Professionals, depression, children and adolescents, eating disorders, obesity, pain, alcoholism, bipolar illness, geriatric psychiatry, drug abuse, Schizophrenia , and other psychiatric and psychological problems. Keep up with the latest community and psychiatry news with our Addiction & Psychiatry Newsletter. Find UF a psychiatrist or psychologist or forensic expert or Faculty of the University of Florida’s College of Medicine’s Department of Psychiatry.