At the University of Kentucky, fellows are invited to explore a dynamic two-year training experience grounded in clinical excellence, scholarship, and real-world relevance. Fellows engage across a variety of settings, populations, and systems gaining the skills to lead in child and adolescent mental health care.

Year 1: PGY 4

The first-year curriculum centers on inpatient, consultation-liaison, and outpatient rotations. Fellows also engage in required continuity and specialty clinics. 

  • Vacation: 15 days
  • Core Rotations
    • Inpatient Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (3 months)
    • Child & Adolescent Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (3 months)
    • Outpatient Child & Adolescent Psychiatry (6 months)
    • Continuity Clinic - General Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
    • Sunrise Residential Experience (1 day per week)
    • Developmental Disorders Clinic
    • Juvenile Justice
    • Outpatient Child Neurology
    • Outpatient Elective Options
    • School-Based Consultation (required either year 1 or year 2)
    • Adolescent Intensive Outpatient Program
    • Community Mental Health
    • Center on Trauma and Children
    • Functional Family Therapy
  • Academic Time
    • Research Block: ½ day per week for fellows enrolled in the Clinical Scholars Track

Year 2: PGY 5 

The second year offers deeper clinical engagement, leadership opportunities, and flexible electives that reflect each fellow’s career goals.

  • Vacation: 15 days
  • Core Rotations
    • General Outpatient Psychiatry (1–2 days per week)
    • Juvenile Justice Continuity Clinic (½ day per week)
    • School-Based Mental Health
    • Elective Options
    • School-Based Mental Health
    • Neurodevelopmental Disorders Clinic
    • Eating Disorders
    • Community Psychiatry
    • Center on Trauma and Children
    • Functional Family Therapy
    • Sunrise Residential Experience
    • Consult-Liaison Junior Attending
    • Identity-Focused Care (e.g., Transform Health)
    • Optional Research Block: ½ day per week (for Clinical Scholars or senior fellows)
    • Optional Quality Improvement & Patient Safety Block (½ day per week option)
    • Options for other fellow driven electives – pediatric neurology, pediatric sleep medicine, College mental health, pediatric palliative care, etc. 

Program Highlights

Individualized supervision and professional development

Opportunities for research, QI, and advocacy

Faculty-led electives driven by clinical and academic expertise

Collaborative, interdisciplinary training across systems of care