Child and Adolescent Psychiatry (CAP) Track

Applicants have the opportunity to apply simultaneously to our residency program and advanced training in child and adolescent psychiatry (CAP). This track accommodates 1 resident per year and allows for rotations in pediatrics (in place of internal medicine) and pediatric neurology. Residents in the CAP track have automatic admission into the Dartmouth CAP fellowship and do not need to apply through the match.

While the majority of our CAP track residents prefer to fast-track to fellowship after their PGY-3 year, CAP track residents are welcome to complete a PGY-4 year before entering fellowship if they choose.

Residents in our adult psychiatry residency who are not in our CAP track are also welcome to apply to our child fellowship after PGY-3 or PGY-4 year. This is a common and welcome practice among our general track residents.

Please note, the general track and CAP track have separate National Resident Matching Program (NRMP) match numbers. We encourage all applicants who are interested in our CAP track to also consider applying to our general track.

Program Highlights

Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center prides itself on its collaborative and collegiate environment. Our faculty are both highly distinguished and accessible to trainees, with informal, personalized, one-to-one instruction readily available to all our residents. Our Residents get in-depth exposure to tertiary and community care, advanced neuroscience, interventional psychiatry, psychotherapy, specialty clinics, and more. Teaching medical students, scholarship and mentorship are also plentiful.

We offer a 5-year combined adult and child program, and a research track. Dartmouth Hitchcock Medical Center is home to several post-residency fellowships, including child psychiatry, consultation-liaison psychiatry, geriatric psychiatry, addiction psychiatry, sleep medicine and pain medicine, as well as the Leadership Preventive Medicine Residency (LPMR), a popular choice for many of our residents. Participants in LPMR are paid a resident salary to receive a free Master’s in Public Health as part of this program. Many other health advocacy programs and research opportunities are also available, such as the Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice (TDI), Dartmouth Center for Healthcare Delivery Science, National Center for PTSD, Center for Neuroscience, Psychiatric research group and the Synergy Center. We also offer a didactic series in advocacy work, led by faculty who are heavily involved in advocacy work themselves.

The Psychiatry Department has an active Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging committee that functions to improve awareness and training in these important topics. Planned activities include regular Journal Clubs and Grand Rounds focused on diversity, inclusion, and anti-racism as well as updating the residency curriculum to ensure broad and deep coverage of the effects of systemic racism on mental health. Residents rotate through a variety of clinical settings exposing them to a socio-economically and culturally diverse range of patients across Northern New England. Residents also have the opportunity to work in a resident-founded Transgender Mental Health clinic as well as to participate in the Upper Valley Human Rights Clinic writing affidavits for people seeking political asylum.