Law & Psychiatry Fellowships
FCI-Butner provides a one-year
Fellowship Program in Forensic Psychiatry. Varied experiences are
available throughout the fellowship year. The primary clinical site is
FCI-Butner. It is one of the three national referral centers for the
Federal Bureau of Prisons. As
such, it provides a full range of evaluation and treatment services.
Duke University is within a 20-minute drive and fellows have the
opportunity to attend courses at Duke Law School, as well as seeing
Child/Adolescent, and Civil Forensic cases through adjunct staff at
Duke.
During
the year, fellows will evaluate a wide variety of individuals involved
in the legal system and have opportunities to testify in court.
The fellows will have an opportunity to teach Duke residents
who regularly rotate through our program. During the fellowship, the
fellow is expected to complete a scholarly project or participate in
ongoing research. Didactic
experiences are provided on a weekly basis. Topics covered include
ethics, criminal and civil forensic psychiatry, child and adolescent
issues, regulation and licensing of psychiatry, landmark legal cases,
correctional psychiatry, and special issues.
A research seminar is also conducted.
The
on-site staff includes six full-time psychiatrists with board
certifications that include Forensic, Child and General Psychiatry. Five Ph.D. level psychologists work in a ‘Team” format
with psychiatrists and lend their expertise to the program.
Two attorneys are also on site.
The
Program allows interaction with a wide range of other Federal
agencies. Attendance at
national meetings and field trips around forensic issues are
integrated into the experience.
The
goal of the fellowship program is to provide an environment in which
fellows are able to attain 1) a basic knowledge base in Forensic
Psychiatry, 2) clinical skills needed to be able to competently
perform in the area of Forensic Psychiatry, and 3) the ability to
continue their own education in the ever-expanding field.
The
program’s objectives are to teach the criminal, civil, and ethical
aspects of Forensic Psychiatry. As
a function of these objectives, the fellows will gain knowledge in the
areas of direct clinical practice, consultation, research, legislative
issues, licensure, administration, and case law applicable to the
field. The fellows will be expected to have the ability to utilize a
law library and be literate in the area of legal case review.
Fellows will learn the skills required to translate their
psychiatric knowledge into clear appropriate reports and testimony in
the multiple areas in which law and psychiatry interface.
As part of this expectation, they will learn what is required
for a thorough evaluation, including ethical limitations.
Forensic fellows will divide their time between the Federal
Correctional Institution, Duke University School of Law, the Duke
Department of Psychiatry, and the Court System.
Ancillary experiences available will be participation in
National Meetings and the opportunity to observe and participate with
Forensic Psychiatrists on the clinical staff.
The
primary area of clinical practice will be at FCI-Butner where the
fellows will do Federal Evaluations in the areas of pre-sentence
evaluation, competency, dangerousness, criminal responsibility, and
involuntary medication hearings.
They will have direct clinical responsibility for the treatment
of prisoners in need of psychiatric services in the Mental Health
Division of FCI-Butner. This work will be directly supervised by staff psychiatrists
who are actively involved in the teaching of the Forensic fellows.
There are regularly scheduled didactic seminars on a weekly basis
throughout the year at FCI-Butner, as well as required course work at
the Duke Law School. To apply, residents contact: Sally Johnson, M.D.,
FCI-Butner, P.O. Box 1000, Butner, NC 27509-1000; telephone:
(919)575-4541
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Post-Doctoral
Fellowships Health Services Research
The
Cecil G. Sheps Center for Health Services Research of the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in partnership with the Department
of Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical
Center, offers postdoctoral training opportunities for qualified
candidates. Other collaborating units at UNC-CH include the Department of
Social Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry. The program is
supported by a National Research Service Award (NRSA) Institutional
Training Grant from the National Institute of Mental Health of the
U.S. Public Health Service.
The
Program is intended to expand the pool of investigators capable of
undertaking policy-relevant mental health services and systems
research. It will assist
persons with a doctoral degree in sociology, psychology, anthropology,
social work, psychiatry, public health or related fields to gain
experience in applying research methods to the systematic analysis and
evaluation of mental health services and public policy issues. The
emphases of the training program are the organization, financing,
utilization, quality, and evaluation of mental health care services;
public policies for ensuring access to such services; and the social
epidemiology of mental disorders.
The Program is committed to multidisciplinary training, a
public sector orientation, and a special focus on persons with a
severe and persistent mental illness.
To apply, residents contact: Joseph Morrissey, Ph.D., UNC-Chapel
Hill, CB#7590, Sheps Ctr. For Health Services Research, Chapel Hill,
NC 27599-7590; telephone: (919)966-5829.
(http://www.shepscenter.unc.edu/Training_Programs/Postdoc.overview.html)
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