UCSD Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Services is a twenty-eight bed inpatient service that was transferred under contract to UCSD from the County of San Diego. This modern Hospital includes a twelve to fourteen bed acute care facility for adolescents and a twelve to fourteen bed short-term facility for children. It is located ten miles from the primary site of training.
Residents are responsible for running two treatment teams with an average case load of six patients.
Residents direct the overall care for the patients, including assessment, management, and discharge planning. The inpatient residents receive a minimum of one hour of individual supervision weekly from their unit medical director. The Patient Care Pavilion opened in January 1993 and provides the region's first and only Pediatric Emergency Room and Trauma Center. Residents have a required 20 percent time rotation in Consultation-Liaison at Children's Hospital and Health Center. Residents provide consultation and psychotherapy and pharmacotherapy as well as performing liaison activities.