The fellowship training program includes the following:
- weekly formal didactics
- case presentations with faculty
- outpatient forensic evaluations
- supervised clinical rotations at a local jail and nearby prison housing inmates with major mental illness
- auditing of a law school course and or a criminology course
- forensic consultation at the university-affiliated teaching hospital
- a research project congruent with the fellow's interest.
Fellows will have ample exposure to civil and criminal cases.
At the completion of the program, fellows will have had experience in the use of various forensic assessment tools (e.g, MMPI-2, M-FAST, SIRS, IQ measurement, personality inventories, executive functioning measures).
Faculty consists of five board-certified forensic psychiatrists (one is also a boarded child and adolescent psychiatrist, another is also a boarded geriatric psychiatrist), two lawyers, a forensic psychologist, and a child psychologist. Fellows are expected to participate in the teaching of psychiatric residents, medical students, law students, and other trainees associated with the forensic program.
Opportunities will be available for fellows to testify in court.
Fringe benefits include travel support to the annual AAPL meeting.
Tampa is a vibrant city with great weather, a world class performing arts center, museums, major league sports teams, and Gulf of Mexico beaches a short drive away.
