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 2024 - Rush University Medical Center has again been named one of the nation’s top performing hospitals by Vizient, a health care performance improvement company that more than 1,300 hospitals rely on to analyze and benchmark data provided directly from their electronic medical records. Rush was ranked No. 2 in the country in Vizient's 2024 Quality and Accountability Study, the only hospital rating system that relies solely on patient outcome data for all inpatients. (https://www.rush.edu/news/rush-continues-top-quality-ratings)
   
• July 2024 - Rush University Medical Center has again been named one of the nation’s top hospitals, securing a spot on U.S. News & World Report’s prestigious Best Hospitals Honor Roll for the fifth straight year. Eleven Rush specialties ranked among the top 50 in the U.S., including six in the top 20. Rush University Medical Center tied for No. 1 as the top hospital in Illinois.  (https://www.rush.edu/news/rush-ranked-among-nations-best-us-news-honor-roll)
   
• November 2024 - Rush University Medical Center has received the highest possible rating from the Leapfrog Group, a nonprofit health care watchdog organization that grades hospitals on the quality and safety of care they provide. It was the ninth consecutive A grade for the medical center. (https://www.rush.edu/news/leapfrog-recognizes-rushs-excellence)

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