Families, Illness, & Collaborative Health Care
Doctoral Fellowship
The
University of Chicago affiliated Chicago Center for Family Health and MacNeal
Health Network offers a one-year full-time fellowship beginning September 2003.
The Chicago Center for Family Health, co-directed by John Rolland, M.D.
and Froma Walsh, Ph.D. provides state-of-the-art post-graduate training in
family therapy and family systems-based health care in collaboration with a
multidisciplinary team of specialists (www.ccfhchicago.org).
Fellows have both primary and secondary clinical placements.
The primary placement is with the MacNeal Hospital Family Practice
Residency, also affiliated with the University of Chicago. MacNeal has a
longstanding reputation of supporting family and psychosocial aspects of health
care within a collaborative framework. Partnering
institutions for placement include: the Division of Integrative Medicine and the
Center for Compassion in Healthcare at Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, and
Gilda’s Club of Chicago. Fellows
have learning access to other programs at the University of Chicago, such as the
MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics.
The clinical experience, based at MacNeal both in Family Practice and in
collaboration with various medical specialty services, emphasizes work with
families with a member who has a chronic or life-threatening illness or
disability using family, couples, group/multi-family group and individual
modalities. The Chicago Center for Family Health provides courses and individual
and group supervision. Responsibilities
include participation in multidisciplinary teaching conferences, teaching
residents and medical students about the integration of family systems
approaches in a variety of health care settings, and collaboration with
healthcare providers. Candidates will develop or join an ongoing clinical
research project related to families and health care.
Appropriate
candidates include both post-doctoral mental health professionals and Ph.D.
candidates enrolled in doctoral programs in family therapy who seek to satisfy
their internship requirement. Applicants
should have a strong career development interest in the integration of family
systems approaches in health care.
Salaries
and benefits are competitive with other fellowships nationally.
Inquiries can be made by phone or e-mail (see below).
Interested applicants should send their materials by February 1st, 2003. To apply, please send your Curriculum Vitae, three letters of
reference, Academic transcript, GRE scores, and a cover letter explaining your
interest in the fellowship to:
John
Rolland, MD, Co-Director
Samuel Rest, Ph.D., Director, Behavioral Sciences
Chicago Center for Family Health MacNeal Hospital