About Boston-Based CME

In 1976 Tom Hackett, M.D. (Chief of Psychiatry, MGH, 1975-1988) inspired our department to embark upon a mission which then seemed bold if not quixotic: to offer to a national audience a two-week, comprehensive review of psychiatry. 132 trusting souls attended that first course, launching what was to become America's most respected, academically based postgraduate educational program in psychiatry.

As we have grown in size and reputation through the years, so, too, has the variety and frequency of our courses. We now offer as many as six courses annually, hosting over 2,000 clinicians from across the country and around the world, who return to Boston to study and learn in the rigorous and engrossing atmosphere of our medical classroom.

Every course features a premier faculty of clinician-researchers who emphasize practical clinical applications in their teaching. In combination with a corresponding syllabus, participants complete each course with state of the art tools to deliver the best care to patients they treat everyday.

Left to Right: Stephanie Lipka Hackett, Arlene Lietz, Kathy Pike, Gail Dickson, Robert Birnbaum, M.D, Ph.D.