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Fellowships that change the job

• Child and adolescent psychiatry

  Two extra years, and the biggest shortage in American medicine. Waiting lists for a child psychiatrist run for months.

• Addiction psychiatry

  One year. Medication for opioid and alcohol use disorder, which is some of the most life-saving work in the field.

• Forensic psychiatry

  One year. Competency evaluations, expert testimony and work inside courts and prisons.

• Consultation psychiatry

  One year. You work inside a general hospital on patients whose medical illness and mental illness are tangled together.