Educational Experience

The Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship provides fellows with profound clinical experiences across a variety of medical and surgical settings, treating a diverse population with complex health conditions.

Schedule:

Five months of inpatient consultation-liaison (CL) psychiatry at IU Health University Hospital
Two months of inpatient CL psychiatry at IU Health Methodist Hospital
One month of inpatient CL psychiatry at IU Health North/West Hospitals
Three months of inpatient and outpatient CL psychiatry at Roudebush VA Medical Center
One month of electives — options include ethics, research, child and adolescent CL psychiatry, inpatient CL psychiatry at Eskenazi Hospital; there are also options for self-designed electives in specific areas of interest

Additional opportunities/electives: gender health clinic, substance use disorders clinics/consult service, toxicology, functional disorders/pain rehabilitation clinic, administrative psychiatry, etc.

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Applicants may email the program director, Emily Holmes, MD, or program coordinator, Linda Dye, with any questions about the application process.

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Clinical Sites

IU Health University Hospital

Indiana University Health University Hospital is a quaternary teaching hospital with busy solid organ (liver and kidney) transplant, bone marrow transplant, hepatology, and oncology services. The multivisceral transplant service receives patients from all over the country for bowel and pancreas transplants. The consult team also covers pregnant and postpartum patients at the Riley Maternity Tower.

IU Health Methodist Hospital

IU Health Methodist Hospital is a quaternary teaching hospital and level one trauma center that houses the emergency department that serves both Methodist and University Hospitals. Heart and lung transplant, trauma surgery, neurology, neurosurgery, and cardiology have services at Methodist Hospital. Methodist Hospital also houses the inpatient psychiatry unit and a med-psych unit.

Suburban Hospitals

IU Health North and IU Health West are suburban hospitals within the IU Health system. This rotation gives fellows the opportunity to practice consultation-liaison psychiatry in a community-based setting.

Roudebush VA Medical Center

Richard L. Roudebush Indianapolis VA Medical Center receives referrals from VA hospitals in Indiana and neighboring states. Fellows will rotate on the inpatient consultation-liaison service and in an outpatient integrated care clinic. There are also numerous opportunities for subspecialty electives including critical care, palliative care and sleep medicine.

Didactics

Fellows participate in a robust didactic series:

Fellowship Didactics — one hour per week; example topics include serotonin syndrome and NMS, clozapine in the medically ill, ICU psychiatry, transplant psychiatry, etc.
CL Book Club — three to four times per year, discussion of a CL-adjacent book
IU/University of North Carolina Joint Fellowship Didactics — one hour per month; shared didactics with the UNC Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship
Optional: weekly Addiction Psychiatry Symposium, Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds, Ethics Grand Rounds, Ethics Consult Subcommittee