title: Expanding the playing field: public and community psychiatry fellowship and beyond.
abstract: Fellowship training in public and community psychiatry has been shown to both extend career tenure and promote leadership attainment. While starting and sustaining a successful fellowship involves overcoming several hurdles, a successful fellowship can serve as a foundation for developing a viable academic division. Case Western Reserve University has redesigned and expanded its public and community psychiatry fellowship. At the same time, it has retained several fellowship graduates by developing a division of public and community psychiatry with a unique academic identity. This model could serve as a blueprint for other programs looking to establish or expand similar programs.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine, 10524 Euclid Ave, W.O. Walker Bldg, 13th Floor, Cleveland, OH, 44106, USA, patrick.runnels1@uhhospitals.org.
authors.forename: Patrick
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Runnels
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ronis
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D002322:Career Mobility; D003158:Community Psychiatry / Q000193:education*; D003479:Curriculum; D005257:Fellowships and Scholarships; D006801:Humans; D007857:Leadership; D009820:Ohio; D014495:Universities