ProgramCIP 61.2404

Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry Fellowship Program

A fellowship training program that prepares physicians in the diagnosis and treatment of psychiatric disorders and symptoms in complex medically ill patients. This includes treatment of patients with acute or chronic medical, neurological, obstetrical, or surgical illness in which psychiatric illness is affecting their medical care and/or quality of life, and patients who have a psychiatric disorder that is the direct consequence of a primary medical condition, a somatoform disorder, or psychological factors affecting a general medical condition. Requires prior completion of a residency program in psychiatry. This CIP code is not valid for IPEDS reporting.

Definition from U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (CIP 2020).

Also called Psychosomatic Medicine.

Replaces earlier code 60.0570.