Program Overview

Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship

Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (CLP) encompasses the study, prevention, and management of psychiatric disorders in the context of comorbid medical conditions. Thus, our patients usually present with medical, surgical, obstetrical, and neurological conditions, who then develop behavioral or psychiatric complications – either due to the primary illness process, or as a secondary effect of medical treatment. Physicians specializing in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry usually work within the context of more extended medical team systems, always partnering with primary or specialized treatment programs, to whom we provide acute consultation regarding specific patient presentations, or develop ongoing, long-term liaison relationships in order to enhance the quality of the care delivered.

We invite you to watch the video below for a better sense of the Stanford Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship, as well as the Division of Medical Psychiatry. It features an overview of the fellowship itself, as well as commentary from our team regarding working in the Division of Medical Psychiatry at Stanford.

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The Fellowship Experience

The Consult-Liaison Psychiatry (CLP) Fellowship Training Program provides a rich learning environment for our fellows while providing a unique and specialized service to our institution. The CLP Service manages the psychiatric and psychological needs of patients, in every medico-surgical unit at SHC and affiliated facilities, in addition to providing primary psychiatric care to patients in the Emergency Department and the outpatient medico surgical specialty clinics. We provide unique psychiatric evaluation and support to organ transplant candidates, donors, and their families. We manage delirium, agitation, alcohol and substance intoxication and withdrawal, and all kinds of psychiatric emergencies throughout the medical center, in addition to providing support, counseling and psychiatric care to those with chronic medical illness (e.g., cancer, HIV, and many others) and the hospital personnel that care for them, especially after traumatic events, through our Critical Debriefing Service.

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The one-year Stanford Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry (CLP) Fellowship Program, developed and directed by José R. Maldonado MD and supported by a robust and diverse group of CL psychiatrists, offers advanced training in the field of Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry in both hospital and ambulatory settings with abundant clinical, educational, and innovative research opportunities. The Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship received full accreditation by the American Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) since its inception in 2010.

The program allows the fellow to engage in a variety of required and elective clinical and research rotations as well as to engage in a wide variety of educational activities where the fellow can serve as a learner and as an educator. The program also allows each CLP-Fellow to develop his or her own unique strengths and interests. Every member of our core faculty is either CLP-Board Certified or eligible.

Beginning with the 2023 – 2024 fellowship class, the number of fellow training positions will go up to four clinical fellows. Fellows will be allowed to choose a fellowship curriculum that confers them excellent training in General Consultation Liaison Psychiatry, but it also offers two optional sub-specialty tracks: Critical Care Psychiatry or Psychosocial Oncology (also known as Psycho-oncology). 

General CLP (GCP) Fellows

Critical Care Psychiatry (CCP) Fellows

Psychosocial Oncology (PSO) Fellows

We offer fellows a total of 8 core rotations, with the fellow’s ability to choose up to 3 of 8 available elective rotations, as well as protected time to allow fellows to carry out a QI or research project. Our rich clinical training experience is complemented by a robust didactic program, which includes a series of innovative seminars designed to provide fellows with everything they need to know to manage almost any clinical problem they will encounter in their career.