The postdoctoral fellowship at St. Louis Children’s aims to be flexible and individualized. Postdoctoral fellows can tailor their training experience based on their interests and goals. All rotations are either six or 12 months long. Fellowship positions can be generalist or specialized (such as consultation and liaison fellowship or hematology and oncology fellowship).
All fellows participate in our multidisciplinary craniofacial and cleft palate clinic, which serves patients with cleft palate and other craniofacial anomalies. All fellows also participate in the outpatient psychotherapy clinic, with patients typically referred from medical specialty practices or community pediatricians.
Fellows also select areas of interest to gain exposure (minor rotation) or specialization (major rotation) during their training year. Experiences in a variety of clinics and specialties are available, including:
- Hematology, oncology, stem cell transplant, and cellular therapy (major or minor)
- Inpatient medical consultation or liaison (major or minor)
- Pain and functional symptoms (major or minor)
- Behavioral sleep medicine (minor)
- Endocrinology and diabetes (minor)
- Gastrointestinal health (minor)
Fellows participate in weekly didactics that cover relevant clinical, research, and professional development topics. Topic areas include clinical intervention; diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging (DEIB); case conference; journal club; quality improvement seminar; and supervision. In addition to scheduled didactics in Psychology, other learning opportunities through WashU Medicine are provided (for example, Pediatric and Psychiatry Grand Rounds, and Pediatric Early Bird Rounds).
