Behavioral Health Fellowship
The Behavioral Health Fellowship is a 12 month program of special training designed to provide Family Medicine physicians, particularly those planning to practice in rural communities, the experience needed to better care for mental health & psychiatric patients. The fellowship prepares physicians to provide the following:
- Expertise in psychopharmacology
- Integrated Behavioral Health care within primary care clinic
- Training in evaluation and treatment of psychiatric problems, as well as autism, ADHD, and managing chronic pain.
- Precept Family Medicine residents in the outpatient clinic and/or hospital
- Work effectively in an inter-professional team of faculty physicians, resident physicians, clinical pharmacists, care coordinators, social workers in various settings.
Curriculum
- Curriculum and fellowship directed by Dr. Bill Miller, MD Psychiatrist
- Inpatient adult, child/adolescent and CD psychiatric rotations in first months of fellowship to focus on diagnostic, medical and psychopharmacologic education experience.
- Maintain and expand general medicine skills in family medicine outpatient continuity clinic
Available inpatient medicine rotation to maintain inpatient medicine skills up to 5 – one week rotations spread throughout fellowship - Comprehensive clinical instruction
- Rigorous didactic curriculum, including structured, independent reading and academic seminars
- Teaching and supervision opportunities
- Optional research time
- Six months of behavioral health electives to shape needs of fellowship training
Salary & Benefits
- $75,000 annual salary
- 30 paid days off: 17 vacation, 6 holidays, 7 sick days
- $1,500 CME stipend
- Comprehensive medical, dental and vision
- Long-term disability
- Malpractice Insurance Coverage
- Idaho Board of Medicine and Pharmacy licensing fees
- DEA licensing fees
- Approved association memberships
Application
One fellow will be selected. Applicants must be board certified, or eligible for board certification, in Family Medicine. Interview will be offered in November and December and the fellow will be selected by end of January.
Key dates:
- October 1 – Application deadline
- First Monday of August – Fellowship begins
Required application materials:
- CV including prior educational, work and/or public service experience
- A one page summary addressing your reasons for pursuing a Behavioral Health Fellowship and future career goals
- A letter of support from applicants Family Medicine Residency Director
- Two letters of support from residency faculty members
How to submit your application:
Email all application materials to: [email protected] Or, mail application materials to:
Kootenai Clinic Family Medicine Residency
Attention: Behavioral Health Fellowship Director
1919 Lincoln Way, Suite 315
Coeur D’Alene, ID 83814.
Behavioral Health Fellowship Director
Fellow Testimonials
“The BH fellowship had the perfect curriculum to continue my training in family medicine while also providing specialty training in medication management for a spectrum of psychiatric disease. The benefits of working with psychiatrists, precepting family medicine residents, working closely with therapists and care managers, and clinical pharmacists provided me with all I needed to jump into practice in an underserved community that had both general medicine and psychiatric needs. Since this fellowship, I have been able to work on mental health integration in a rural clinic in Colorado and have improved skills to work collaboratively with therapists to titrate medications to get my patients back to functioning better.”
“The KH Behavioral Health Fellowship offered an ideal and unique opportunity to receive psychiatry specialty training within a matrix of the community based and underserved care environments that I felt so dedicated to. The personalized fellowship curriculum met all of my unique needs for that first year after residency graduation — a well-supported space to practice general family medicine clinic independently, a fellowship director to guide and mentor my path, inpatient and outpatient specialist attendings personally invested in my learning experience, and a multidisciplinary psychopharmacology team always at my fingertips. This fellowship built and then set the stage for my career path in underserved medicine.”