Core Activities:

The foundation for all training experiences is the core shared philosophy and common activities that cut across the individual tracks.

All tracks consistently adhere to the scientist-practitioner philosophy in the following activities:

Treatment:
All interns are responsible for providing individual outpatient psychotherapy through the outpatient service.

The Adult Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic offers an array of outpatient services to a diagnostically and socioeconomically diverse group of patients. Patients are typically referred by their MGH primary care providers for treatment. Current treatment modalities include individual and group therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy and pharmacotherapy.

The Child Psychiatry Outpatient Clinic offers family therapy, behavioral and academic interventions in addition to the services listed above.

Assessment/Evaluation:
All interns conduct crisis evaluation and disposition planning in the Acute Psychiatry Service (APS) of the MGH Emergency Room. While the emphasis and type of evaluation varies within tracks, all interns complete standard comprehensive psychological evaluations for diagnostic and treatment planning purposes.

Consultation:
Working in a major medical center, all interns have the opportunity to consult on cases with a variety of health care providers including psychiatrists, primary care physicians, and other allied health professionals.

Research:
As the first component of research training, the internship is committed to assisting in completion of the doctoral dissertation. To that end, resources include a dissertation seminar and consultation with a senior staff statistician. Over 90% of interns have completed their dissertations by the end of internship. While the emphasis on research varies among tracks, it is part of every intern’s training.

Didactics:
In addition to track-specific didactics, all trainees are involved in the following seminars:

• Core Training Seminar: Weekly seminar that offers modules in diversity, consultation, supervision and ethics
• APS Seminar: Weekly seminar for six months teaching assessment, crisis intervention and management of patients in the emergency room setting
• CBT seminar: Weekly seminar teaching empirically validated treatment of psychiatric disorders.

Supervision:
Each intern will have a minimum of three hours of individual weekly supervision.

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