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Fellowship and Subspecialty Training

        Director: Dr. Sherry James




        Fellowship Training                  Fancy, who will both complete
        Fellowship training provides a       the program in June 2019. PGY-
        trainee the opportunity to develop   4 residents Drs. Vhari James and
        expert clinical and/or research      Joshua Smalley will also join the child
        skills in various areas of psychiatry   and adolescent program and are
        following residency training.        expected to graduate in June 2020.
        Dalhousie currently offers fellowship   The geriatric psychiatry program
        opportunities in the areas of mood   will welcome Drs. Ian MacKay and
        disorders, early psychosis, intensive   Kathleen Singh, who will complete
        short-term dynamic psychotherapy     training in 2019. Dr. Olga Yashchuck,
        and psychodynamics/group             PGY-4, will enter the program as well
        psychotherapy.                       and complete her training in 2020.
                                             Preparation for their start has been
        Subspecialty Training                ongoing. All subspecialty positions
        A subspecialty residency is a Royal   are filled for 2019, though there
        College-accredited training program   is one seat reserved in 2019 for
        wherein residents complete a course   fellowship program applicants. The
        of training to develop expert clinical   application deadline(s) for that is Oct.
        and research skills in a specialized   26, 2018.
        area of psychiatry. Dalhousie
        currently offers subspecialty training
        in the areas of geriatric psychiatry
        and child and adolescent psychiatry.   While we had no fellows
        Typically, psychiatry residents
        apply for subspecialty training in
        their fourth year of the general
        psychiatry residency, and plan fifth   training during the
        year electives as part of subspecialty
        training requirements to potentially
        complete subspecialty training as a   2017-2018 academic
        PGY-6. There is a full Royal College
        accreditation visit for the subspecialty
        programs in November 2018. In
        fact, three programs are undergoing   year, we were fortunate
        accreditation in November: the
        general psychiatry residency
        program, as well as both subspecialty   to host two subspecialty
        programs. Preparations are underway
        guided by the PGME office and
        utilizing a new online program.
        The deadline for documentation       residents: Drs. Daljit
        submission is June 2018.

        There has been keen interest in
        the subspecialty programs. Four      Bhangoo and Gaëlle
        Dalhousie psychiatry class of 2018
        grads will start in the subspecialty
        programs as of July 1, 2018; two     Bélanger.
        in each program. The child and
        adolescent program will welcome
        Drs. Celia Robichaud and Sarah

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