Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship

Message from the Fellowship Program Director

Katrina Burns, MD
Assistant Professor, Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Program Director, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship

RUSH University Medical Center is a place that feels like home—welcoming, warm, inclusive, and a place where you are valued and recognized. We cherish this and many other distinguishing aspects about RUSH. Our Consultation-Liaison attending physicians place an emphasis on mentorship and the fellow’s personal goals in education and development as a psychiatrist. Our diverse and clinically robust educational curriculum possesses the ingredients needed to produce a Consultation-Liaison Psychiatrist that is academically and clinically well-rounded, confident, collaborative and compassionate. A few highlights of our fellowship include customizable selective opportunities that facilitate experience and knowledge acquisition in a variety of sub-specialties in Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry; weekly protected time for didactics and quality improvement/scholarly activity; faculty with broad areas of expertise; and an opportunity to see complex and rare conditions in a setting that is nationally distinguished for quality and excellence of care.

Our welcome message would not be complete without highlighting our most recent accomplishments as a Medical Center:

• September 2023 - For the 10th year in a row, RUSH has been named one of the highest-quality hospitals in the nation by Vizient, the nation’s leading health care performance improvement company. (https://www.rush.edu/news/rush-remains-among-nations-best-quality)

• July 2023 - For the fourth year in a row, RUSH is among the nation’s best on U.S. News & World Report’s 2023-2024 Best Hospitals Honor Roll. In the annual evaluation of more than 4,500 hospitals, U.S. News & World Report again placed RUSH University Medical Center among the nation’s top hospitals. (https://www.rush.edu/news/rush-again-among-best-nation-us-news-best-hospitals-honor-roll)

• November 2022 - For the fourth time in a row, all three RUSH hospitals received ‘A’ grades, the highest possible, in the latest grades awarded by The Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit watchdog organization. The grades are an assessment of hospitals’ success in protecting patients from harm and medical errors. (https://www.rush.edu/news/rush-again-among-nations-best-patient-safety)