Child & Adolescent Psychiatry

Training path

1. College (bachelor’s degree) 4 years
2. Medical school (MD or DO) 4 years
3. Psychiatry residency 3 years
4. Child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship 2 years

Training after medical school: 5–6 years. From the start of college: about 13–14 years.

Some programs integrate the general psychiatry years.

Usual minimum program lengths from ACGME program requirements. Some doctors take extra research years or a second fellowship.

Who they are

• MD (DOs make up the rest) 92%
• Women 57%
• Graduated 35 or more years ago 23%
• Offer telehealth 37%
• Accept Medicare’s approved amount 88%

Sex and credentials from NPPES. Graduation year, telehealth and Medicare assignment from Medicare Care Compare, which covers clinicians enrolled in Medicare.

What they do most for Medicare patients

• Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 30-39 minutes 50,696
• Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 20-29 minutes 37,288
• Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making, if using time, at least 35 minutes 29,349
• Psychotherapy with evaluation and management visit, 30 minutes 25,871
• Subsequent hospital care with straightforward or low level of medical decision making, per day, if using time, at least 25 minutes 14,608
• Subsequent hospital care with moderate levelof medical decision making, if using time, at least 50 minutes 14,556
• Psychotherapy with evaluation and management visit, 45 minutes 10,900
• Treatment using magnetic field to stimulate nerve cells in brain, subsequent delivery and management 6,126
• Psychotherapy, 45 minutes 5,745
• Psychiatric diagnostic evaluation with medical services 5,325
• Established patient office or other outpatient visit, 40-54 minutes 5,155
• Psychotherapy, 1 hour 5,137

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Services billed to traditional Medicare in 2023 (Physician and Other Practitioners data); drugs given in the office are left out.

What they prescribe most

• Clonazepam (Klonopin) 6.4%
• Quetiapine Fumarate (Seroquel, Seroquel Xr) 5.5%
• Trazodone Hcl 5.4%
• Sertraline Hcl (Zoloft) 4.6%
• Bupropion Hcl (Bupropion Xl, Wellbutrin Sr, Wellbutrin Xl) 4.3%
• Fluoxetine Hcl (Fluoxetine Dr, Prozac) 3.7%
• Aripiprazole (Abilify Asimtufii, Abilify Maintena, Abilify) 3.6%
• Risperidone (Risperdal, Perseris, Uzedy) 3.6%
• Alprazolam (Xanax, Xanax Xr) 3.4%
• Escitalopram Oxalate (Lexapro) 3.3%
• Lorazepam (Ativan, Loreev Xr) 3.3%
• Duloxetine Hcl (Cymbalta, Drizalma Sprinkle) 3.0%
• Olanzapine (Zyprexa, Zyprexa Zydis) 3.0%
• Buspirone Hcl 2.7%
• Divalproex Sodium (Depakote Sprinkle, Depakote, Depakote Er) 2.7%

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Share of this specialty’s Medicare Part D prescriptions in 2024, including refills. Select a drug to see which of these clinicians prescribe it most, and where.

Hospitals where the most work

• Strong Memorial Hospital Rochester, NY 7 Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Strong Memorial Hospital
• University of Missouri Health Care Columbia, MO 7 Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at University of Missouri Health Care
• University of Utah Hospital and Clinics Salt Lake City, UT 6 Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at University of Utah Hospital and Clinics
• Northshore University Healthsystem - Evanston Hospital Evanston, IL 6 Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Northshore University Healthsystem - Evanston Hospital
• Univ. of Vermont - Fletcher Allen Health Care Burlington, VT 5 Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Univ. of Vermont - Fletcher Allen Health Care
• Yale-New Haven Hospital New Haven, CT 5 Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Yale-New Haven Hospital
• Boston Medical Center Boston, MA 4 Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Boston Medical Center
• Mainehealth Maine Medical Center Portland, ME 4 Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Mainehealth Maine Medical Center
• Riverside University Health System-Medical Center Moreno Valley, CA 4 Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Riverside University Health System-Medical Center
• University of Iowa Hospital & Clinics Iowa City, IA 4 Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at University of Iowa Hospital & Clinics

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Clinicians who list the hospital in Medicare Care Compare. The number opens the list of who works there.

Schools they graduated from most

• University of Cincinnati College of Medicine 23
• Lake Erie College of Osteopathic Medicine, Erie 20
• Loma Linda University School of Medicine 20
• Indiana University School of Medicine 18
• University of South Carolina School of Medicine 18
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine 17
• Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine 16
• Tulane University School of Medicine 16
• University of Illinois College of Med (chi/peor/rock/chm-Urb) 16
• University of Minnesota Medical School 16

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From Medicare Care Compare (Medicare-enrolled clinicians only).