UCSF Fellowship Available-anyone interested?

[docme]

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An extra spot has become available for the 2013-2014 Public psychiatry fellowship at UCSF/SFGH in San Francisco. The program is actively recruiting and interviewing applicants. It gives you an opportunity to be a fellow and clinical instructor at UCSF.

Here is a link to the program website:

http://psych.ucsf.edu/residency-programs.aspx?id=6323

If any of you is interested, please contact the director, her email address is on the website. Feel free to msg me here/pm me with further questions and I'll be happy to answer. Please share with anyone you know that might be interested.

 

[vistaril]

Not to slam this ucsf fellowship specifically, but fellowships in community/public psychiatry defy logic. If someone wants to work in this area and become good at it, then the obvious solution is to take a job in community psychiatry out of residency. Do a lot of fourth year electives in that area to feel more comfortable in it before leaving residency. But the idea that someone can't be ready to start working in community psychiatry after a general residency is the height of absurdity....if they aren't prepared to start working in that capacity what does a general psychiatry residency prepare them for?

It all seems like a scam to attach community mental health jobs to academic hospitals, call it a 'fellowship', and save 100k on a position.....

None of the most prominent people in community psychiatry have done such a fellowship.

 

[docme]

I think its about individual interest and preferences. You never know what another person is looking for nor what they are hoping to do. If someone has come this far, they must know where they are going.This is America--to each his own!

 

[dl2dp2]

Not to slam this ucsf fellowship specifically, but fellowships in community/public psychiatry defy logic.

My understanding is that these are essentially for research and policy oriented job tracks, not for clinical training. I think someone doing a public psychiatry fellowship at UCSF would be shooting for a career as an administrator in the state office of mental health or doing public policy research at a major academic medical center.

I like how you like to be shrill about things you don't know much about.

 

[vistaril]

My understanding is that these are essentially for research and policy oriented job tracks, not for clinical training. I think someone doing a public psychiatry fellowship at UCSF would be shooting for a career as an administrator in the state office of mental health or doing public policy research at a major academic medical center.

I like how you like to be shrill about things you don't know much about.

most policy oriented and administrative jobs in community mental health are done by people who spent a good deal of time working clinically in community mental health.....if you look at administrators of community mental health systems you will see that this is true.