PGY-1
Psychiatry (6 months)
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Medicine & Neurology (6 months)
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PGY-2
Rotation |
Location |
Duration |
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry |
VA WX |
2 months |
Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry |
BIDMC |
1 month |
Partial Hospitalization Program |
McLean Southeast |
1 month |
ECT and Inpatient Psychiatry |
VA BR |
1 month |
State Psychiatric Hospital |
Corrigan Mental Health Center |
1 month |
Forensic Psychiatry |
Solomon Carter Fuller Mental Health Center |
1 month |
Child and Adolescent Psychiatry |
McLean Southeast |
2 months |
Adult Inpatient Psychiatry |
McLean |
1 month |
Selective (i.e. Palliative, Child, Detox) |
variable |
1 month |
Night Float |
VA BR |
3 weeks |
Outpatient Continuity Clinic |
VA BR |
1/2 day per week (year-long) |
PGY-3
Rotation |
Location |
Duration |
General Mental Health (GMH) Clinic |
VA BR |
Year-long |
PTSD Clinic |
VA BR |
Year-long |
Alcohol and Drug Treatment Program (ADTP) |
VA BR |
Year-long |
Psychodynamic Psychotherapy |
VA BR |
Year-long |
Supervision (GMH, PTSD, Psychodynamic, ADTP) |
VA BR |
Year-long |
Department of Mental Health Outpatient Clinic |
DMH (Brockton or Fall River) |
1/2 day per week (year-long) |
Outpatient Clozapine Clinic |
VA BR |
1/2 day per week for 3 months |
REACH Program (Residential Substance Use) |
VA BR |
1/2 day per week for 2 months |
Research Track (optional) |
variable |
Protected-time 1 day per week (year-long) |
PGY-4
Rotation |
Location |
Duration |
Electives Consultation-Liaison EEG Interpretation Endocrinology Geriatrics Integrative Care Neurology Specialties Neurofeedback Neuroradiology Palliative Care Psychotherapy Electives Rural Mental Health in Colorado Serious Mental Illness Sleep Medicine Substance Abuse Whole Health |
variable |
12 months (including up to 3 months away) |
Chief Resident Leadership Program (optional) |
variable |
2.5 days per week |
Continuity Clinic |
VA BR |
1/2 day per week (year-long) |
Research Track (optional) |
variable |
12 months |
VA Boston is a large healthcare system composed of three campuses. The Brockton campus (BR) is home base for mental health and the HSS program. It houses two acute inpatient psychiatry wards with 52 beds total, two long-term psychiatry units, a detox unit, a sub-acute rehabilitation center, and an inpatient palliative care /hospice unit. Also located on this campus is an active urgent care where residents will conduct admission assessments on-call. The Brockton campus has a large outpatient mental health clinic where residents complete most of their outpatient clinical training. The Jamaica Plain campus (JP) largely consists of outpatient services, including the specialty neurology clinics through which residents rotate (memory, movement disorders, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, psychogenic nonepileptic seizures, general neurology). Residents complete two other rotations at JP – the Substance Abuse Recovery and Rehabilitation Treatment Program (SARRTP), a 6-week residential program for veterans with substance use disorders, and the PACU where residents get hands-on exposure to ECT and ketamine procedures. The West Roxbury campus (WX) is the primary medical and surgical hospital for VA Boston and it is here residents get inpatient medicine exposure and later return for consultation-liaison psychiatry.
McLean Hospital is a leader in psychiatric care, research, and education. It is the largest psychiatric teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, is consistently ranked among the top psychiatric hospitals in the country, and home to the nation’s oldest and globally-renowned research program in a psychiatric hospital setting. Our residents rotate at the Belmont campus and the Southeast campus in Middleborough. While at McLean, residents have hands-on exposure to both Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS).
Brockton Neighborhood Health Center (BNHC) is a primary care community clinic where residents work with underserved patients under the supervision of staff attendings. The resident may also attend specialty clinics such as endocrinology, sexually transmitted infection clinic, harm reduction clinic, and will work closely with interpreters to interview patients from various backgrounds. The resident may also attend nutrition and cooking classes alongside patients in the clinic’s very own teaching kitchen.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) is a Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston. Serving as a tertiary/academic resource, this site allows residents to gain exposure to an interesting variety of consultation-liaison cases, with a special focus on female and obstetric patients.
Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller Mental Health Center is a Department of Mental Health (DMH) facility with three forensic psychiatric inpatient units which provide forensic assessments for Massachusetts while providing ongoing psychiatric care.
Corrigan Mental Health Center is a Department of Mental Health (DMH) facility serving a catchment area that includes Fall River, New Bedford, and surrounding towns. Residents rotate on acute inpatient psychiatry as a PGY-2 and in the outpatient clinic during the PGY-3 year.
Brockton Multi-Service Center is a Department of Mental Health (DMH) facility in the Southeastern Area network that serves as a catchment for Brockton and surrounding towns. Residents may complete their PGY-3 outpatient community clinic rotation at BMSC.
McLean Hospital is a leader in psychiatric care, research, and education. It is the largest psychiatric teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School, is consistently ranked among the top psychiatric hospitals in the country, and home to the nation’s oldest and globally-renowned research program in a psychiatric hospital setting. Our residents rotate at the Belmont campus and the Southeast campus in Middleborough. While at McLean, residents have hands-on exposure to both Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS).
Brockton Neighborhood Health Center (BNHC) is a primary care community clinic where residents work with underserved patients under the supervision of staff attendings. The resident may also attend specialty clinics such as endocrinology, sexually transmitted infection clinic, harm reduction clinic, and will work closely with interpreters to interview patients from various backgrounds. The resident may also attend nutrition and cooking classes alongside patients in the clinic’s very own teaching kitchen.
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) is a Harvard-affiliated teaching hospital located in the Longwood Medical Area of Boston. Serving as a tertiary/academic resource, this site allows residents to gain exposure to an interesting variety of consultation-liaison cases, with a special focus on female and obstetric patients.
Dr. Solomon Carter Fuller Mental Health Center is a Department of Mental Health (DMH) facility with three forensic psychiatric inpatient units which provide forensic assessments for Massachusetts while providing ongoing psychiatric care.
Corrigan Mental Health Center is a Department of Mental Health (DMH) facility serving a catchment area that includes Fall River, New Bedford, and surrounding towns. Residents rotate on acute inpatient psychiatry as a PGY-2 and in the outpatient clinic during the PGY-3 year.
Brockton Multi-Service Center is a Department of Mental Health (DMH) facility in the Southeastern Area network that serves as a catchment for Brockton and surrounding towns. Residents may complete their PGY-3 outpatient community clinic rotation at BMSC.
Full Academic Day (every week)
All residents on psychiatry rotations are excused from clinical duties on Wednesdays for the full day to focus on didactic curriculum. Topics include psychiatric diagnosis and interviewing, psychopharmacology, ethics, neuropsychiatry, human development, supportive psychotherapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), cognitive processing therapy (CPT), motivational interviewing (MI), psychodynamic psychotherapy, a resident led morbidity and mortality conference, and many more.
We are particularly proud of our outstanding faculty, focus on evidence-based care, and education innovation. Highlights include: psychopharmacology with Dr. David Osser, the founder of the Psychopharmacology Algorithm Project. Psychotherapy training is based on our very own Project IMPART (Initiative for Manual-Guided Psychotherapies to Augment Residency Training), which was recognized by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) as a Notable Practice.
We are particularly proud of our outstanding faculty, focus on evidence-based care, and education innovation. Highlights include: psychopharmacology with Dr. David Osser, the founder of the Psychopharmacology Algorithm Project. Psychotherapy training is based on our very own Project IMPART (Initiative for Manual-Guided Psychotherapies to Augment Residency Training), which was recognized by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME) as a Notable Practice.
Grand Rounds
Grand Rounds is a twice-monthly lunchtime series where HSS residents have the opportunity to meet nationally renowned experts in Psychiatry. Grand Rounds is built into the Wednesday Academic Day with lunch provided by HSS. As a VA flagship facility, the VA Boston Healthcare system is piloting a project to make Grand Rounds available virtually, with CME, to all VA facilities across the country.
Journal Club
Online forum where residents post and discuss landmark articles in psychiatry.
Harvard Day
Harvard Day is an event held each autumn that allows Psychiatry residents from all five Harvard residency programs to come together for a day of scholarship. Each year, one of the Harvard residency programs hosts the day and chooses a theme for which they select a keynote speaker and develop various breakout seminars.
DMH Day
The Department of Mental Health (DMH) hosts an event each year for all Massachusetts psychiatry programs to meet and join in a discussion led by an inspiring keynote speaker that is doing important work to push our field forward.
Mysell Day
Mysell Day is held each spring and allows all Harvard psychiatry residency programs to come together and share their research at a large poster session. A psychiatrist who has dedicated a substantial portion of his/her career to research is asked to come as a keynote speaker. The keynote speaker presents his/her research and shares lunch with the residents for a career planning Q&A.
HSS Program Day
Our program holds our own poster session each spring accompanied by a lunch to allow residents and faculty the opportunity to share their work locally and hopefully inspire others to get involved
