MGH Psychiatry -- Adult Residency Program

Welcome to the MGH/McLean Adult Residency website! We are a vibrant learning community with a strong commitment to providing quality patient care, expanding our knowledge through research and innovation, teaching and life long learning and serving our local community. Our faculty, residents and staff span the greater Metro Boston area in four hospitals and numerous community centers. Our home base is shared by the Department of Psychiatry at MGH and the McLean Hospital. Residents spend most of their time at both these two institutions amid a rich and uniquely diverse faculty dedicated to training the next generation of psychiatrists.

Our strong clinical training is complemented by an array of opportunities to develop subspecialty expertise in every area of psychiatry. We have research opportunities ranging from basic science laboratories to clinical research programs in all areas of psychiatric inquiry. There are readily available programs in Community Psychiatry, International Psychiatry, Psychosomatic Medicine, Forensics, Women’s Mental Health, Addiction Psychiatry, and the Psychotherapies to name just a few. We have recently integrated a research concentration opportunity for the serious physician-scientist in our residency program that frees up significant time for research during residency without skimping on our rigorous clinical training. Please enter our site and explore the range and depth of what it means to live, work and learn at MGH and McLean!

Joy Littlefield
Program Manager

Phone: 617-726-9550
Fax : 617-724-0308

My name is Brian Hurley. I have been one of the lucky PGY-1s to start on MGH’s inpatient psychiatry unit. I take ”The T” (MBTA Subway) to MGH each morning, which is about a 30 min commute.

Niels Rosenquist, MD, PhD and Sherry Nykiel, MD, both recent graduates spearheaded the publication of the MGH /McLean Residency Handbook of Psychiatry.

To foster the career development of the physician-scientist, our program has developed an opportunity to protect time throughout clinical training to pursue research. Read More

After its founding in 1811, the mission of Mass General was to offer clinical services to the mentally ill. The psychiatric Asylum of the MGH, later renamed the McLean Asylum, offered world-renowned residential care. Read more

Boston has been a center of intellectual, cultural and political life since the 17th century. Home to scores of colleges and universities, more than 100,000 students provide fuel for one of the world's great intellectual capitals. Read more

Left to right: Jerrold Rosenbaum MD, Chief of Psychiatry at Massachusetts General Hospital; Kathy Sanders MD, Training Director; and Scott Rauch MD, Chair, Partners Psychiatry and Mental Health and President of McLean Hospital.