Teaching and Training - Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology Service

The Service also collaborates in the training of family doctors, who carry out their rotation programme through the Adult Psychiatry Department and the SPPIJ, specifically rotating through the CSMIJ. MIR, PIR and EIR trainees from other Multidisciplinary Mental Health Teaching Units also carry out their training here.

For 30 years, the Department, together with the University of Barcelona (UB), organized the Master's Degree in Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology of Childhood and Adolescence, with the last cohort of this Master's Degree being that of academic year 2020-2021. Currently, the Department collaborates in the training of students on the Master's Degree in General Health Psychology (MUPGS) at the Faculty of Psychology of the UB, who carry out their practical training in the Department.

The Service participates in the formation of the following MIR, PIR and EIR subjects:

It also collaborates in the training of family doctors, who carry out their rotation program by the Adult Psychiatry Service and who alterate with the CSMIJ. MIRs and PIRs from other hospitals and EIRs from this and other centers also train. Every year, different doctors or psychologists, most of them from Latin American universities, carry out training stays at the Service.

EIR Information Leaflet Mental Health Nursing.

The Service, together with the University of Barcelona (UB), has been organizing the Master's in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology for almost 30 years. This master's degree had a duration of two years and is carried out by four students per year. From the 2020-2021 academic year, the duration will be one year. Apart from the theoretical classes, the master's degree students are integrated into the regular classes of the Service. In addition, the Service collaborates with the Master of Clinical Psychology of the Faculty of Psychology of the UB.

In the service, different care meetings are held where clinical cases are presented that have a high teaching impact on all undergraduate and postgraduate students. There is also a program of scientific sessions under the model of Refresher Course in Psychiatry and Child and Adolescent Psychology accredited by the College of Physicians (Accreditation of continuing education activities for the health professions), in which both health professionals from the Service are external guests.

The Advanced Course on Eating Disorders (ED) offers theoretical and practical training placements to improve skills, mainly in the care of young patients with severe eating disorders in different therapeutic settings: hospital ward, day hospital, intensive outpatient treatment. There may also be the possibility of participating in some of the team's active lines of research.

The Department holds various care meetings where clinical cases are presented that have a high educational impact on all undergraduate and postgraduate students. A programme of scientific sessions is also held annually under the model of the "Refresher Course in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology" accredited by the Catalan Council for Continuing Education in the Health Professions of the Medical Associations of Catalonia, in which both professionals from the Department and invited external experts participate.

Departmental professionals supervise doctoral theses within the Department of Medicine at the University of Barcelona, master's degree final projects (TFM) in the CIBERSAM Interuniversity Master's Degree, and the UB Master's Degree in Neuroscience, as well as final degree projects (TFG) at the UB Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences and other universities (e.g. TFG in Biology at the Complutense University of Madrid and Degree in Biomedical Engineering at the UPF). Doctoral students can participate in the IDIBAPS PhD Programme.

A continuing education course is organized periodically for all professionals in the Department. In addition, courses are offered for professionals in the child and adolescent mental health care network:

• Refresher course on psychosis in childhood and adolescence, organized jointly with the Hospital Sant Joan de Déu.
• Refresher course and supervision of clinical cases in Child and Adolescent Psychopharmacology.
• Training course in cognitive-behavioural therapy for obsessive-compulsive disorder and Tourette Syndrome in children and adolescents.
• Annual refresher course on autism spectrum disorder.

All courses are evaluated by the Teaching Committee of the Hospital Clínic de Barcelona.