Albert J. Solnit Children’s Center– South Campus is a state-administered Psychiatric facility for Connecticut’s children who are under the age of eighteen.
Curriculum and Training Sites
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This two-year YCSC training program involves two tracks, New Haven and Solnit-South. New Haven Track fellows are employees paid by YNHH and work 100% of their time in New Haven during year one. This includes inpatient, outpatient, CL/ED, and call. Solnit Track fellows are State of Connecticut employees paid by the state and work 2.5 days per week at Solnit South in Middletown and 2.5 days per week in New Haven.
Placements and rotations for year one and two of training for each track are outlined below. Fellows complete the indicated number of months in each rotation, in no specific order, and schedules are assigned individually across multiple services and training sites.
Yale Child Study Center/New Haven Track Year 1
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| 6 months | 4 months | 1 month | 1 month | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | Yale-New Haven Children’s Hospital Children’s Psychiatric Inpatient Service (CPIS) (70%) | Consultation-liaison to Pediatrics (70%) | Pediatric ED/ Crisis Intervention Center and SUD (70%) | Elective |
| Yale Child Study Center Outpatient (10%) with didactics (20%) 11 months (30%) | ||||
Based on a 45-hour work week
Didactics are one full day (20%)
Home On-Call for pediatric consultation and CPIS (About 33 evenings and 13 weekend or holiday days per year)
Yale Child Study Center/ Solnit South Track Year 1
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| 12 months | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Year 1 | Inpatient Psychiatry at John Dempsey Hospital at Solnit South with AJ Solnit Children’s Center Residential PRTF (50%) | ||
| Yale Child Study Center Outpatient (10%) with didactics (20%) (30%) | |||
| Consultation-liaison to Pediatrics 3 months (20%) | Pediatric ED/ Crisis Intervention Center 3 months (20%) | Elective 6 months (20%) | |
Based on a 45-hour work week
Didactics are one full day (20%)
Home On-Call for pediatric consultation and CPIS (About 33 evenings and 13 weekend or holiday days per year)
Yale Child Study Center/New Haven Track Year 2
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| 12 months | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year 2 | Yale Child Study Center Outpatient Clinical Services (40%) | |||
| Community Placements (15%) | ||||
| Electives (25%) | ||||
| 2 months Forensics/mini-courses/Board prep (20%) | Young Child Evaluations 5 months (10%) | ACCESS-Mental Health 5 months (10%) | ||
| School Consultations 5 months (10%) | Tourette’s/ OCD Specialty Clinic 2.5 months (10%) | Autism/ DD Specialty Clinic 2.5 months (10%) | ||
Based on a 45-hour work week
Didactics are ½ day (10%)
Yale Child Study Center/Solnit South Track Year 2
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| 11 months | 1 month | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year 2 | AJ Solnit Children’s Center Residential PRTF (40%) | Elective | |||
| Yale Child Study Center Outpatient Clinical Services (20%) | |||||
| Community Placements/ Electives (20%) | |||||
| 2 months Forensics/mini-courses/Board prep (20%) | ACCESS-Mental Health 4 months (10%) | Young Child Evaluations 5 months (10%) | |||
| School Consultations 4 months (10%) | Tourette’s/OCD Specialty Clinic 2.5 months (10%) | Autism/ DD Specialty Clinic 2.5 months (10%) | |||
Based on a 45-hour work week
Didactics are ½ day (10%)
rev. 9.2026
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Albert J. Solnit Children’s Center Yale New Haven Hospital The Children's Psychiatric Inpatient Service (CPIS) combines the unique resources of Yale New Haven Children's Hospital with the world-renowned faculty of Yale School of Medicine departments of child psychiatry (Yale Child Study Center) and pediatrics.
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