Psychiatry Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Program

Cheers! My name is Beverly Jewell Sutton, MD, and I am the Training Director for Austin Medical Education Programs for the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program. After graduating from medical school at the University of Michigan, I completed residency in pediatrics, psychiatry and child psychiatry and became triple boarded before it became a popular thing to do. After that, I was a staff child psychiatrist at Austin State Hospital in Austin Texas and a Child Psychiatry Training Director at ASH and Seton Shoal Creek Hospital. During this time, I was for 15 years training director of psychiatry along with the child psychiatry duties. My clinical duties for 2-3 years included being clinical director of a 320 bed psychiatric hospital. For nearly 15 years, my patient population consisted of children who are deaf and for 5 years children who are visually impaired. My interests professionally are ethology, genetics, and diagnostics.

The Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training program was started in 1971 and now is located at the Austin Medical Education Programs. In our most recent RRC site visit in February 2008, we were given continued accreditation for 5 years and approved for a total of 10 child and adolescent psychiatry residents. Our rotations are all within 4 1/2 miles of the department location and cover a diverse clinical population ranging from consultation with abused neglected children and pediatric inpatients, to outpatients in community psychiatry and non-profit clinics, juvenile justice and school populations including preschool, inpatient adolescent and latency children, and electives.

Of primary importance, we enjoy having a Clinical Faculty devoted to training and research. Individual attention provides for a resident’s particular interests and to enriching the training experience both academically and clinically. Secondly, we are in a city that provides sports, cultural events, school systems, an almost tropical climate, and an environment pleasing to the people living here.