Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship

The Department of Psychiatry is pleased to offer an ACGME-accredited fellowship in Consultation/Liaison Psychiatry at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. Our fellowship has been offered since its inception in 2008, and we have participated in the Match program since 2014. We accept both the Common Application and ERAS Applications. Former fellows who have completed our program have obtained careers in a wide variety of academic, administrative, and clinical environments, including severalACGME program and clinical service directorships. 

This one-year program offers a diverse, multidisciplinary, highly collaborative training environment. The Jefferson CL Psychiatry Service provides comprehensive psychiatric consultation utilizing an interventionalist philosophy and an evidence-based approach to effect maximal outcomes for patients and consulting teams. This includes a proactive CL subservice managed by our psychiatric nurse practitioner, a robust 

Heart/Lung/Liver/Kidney Transplant psychiatry service, and a state-of-the-art addiction medicine service providing the nation's only protocolized treatment of xylazine and medetom idine withdrawal endemic to Philadelphia. 

Thomas Jefferson University Hospital is a 908-bed academic medical center, home to the NCI-designated Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center, the internationally recognized the Farber Institute for Neuroscience and Jefferson Hospital for Neuroscience, the Wills Eye Hospital, the world-renowned Rothman Orthopedics Institute, a Level I Trauma and Burn Center with Air Transport services, and the Marcus Institute of Integrative Health providing research and clinical services in integrative medicine. 

On the General CL service, fellows spend half the year managing the most complex cases in the hospital, not only "bread-and-butter" conditions such as delirium, but also a significant number of what other institutions might consider to be rare, including catatonia due to medical conditions (approximately 5% of all Jefferson CL consults), posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome, anti-NM DA-receptor encephalitis, psychiatric manifestations of cerebellar disease, post-stroke/TBI syndromes, and nutritional deficiencies with psychiatric complications. 

The other half of the year is divided between other inpatient specialty rotations {Transplant Psychiatry, Aqdiction Medicine Service, Palliative Care), and other outpatient clinical