Core Academic Seminars
Formal seminars covering all areas of child psychiatry are integrated with clinical experiences. The Core Academic Seminars are outlined on pages 69 and 77. Note that one seminar in Year 1, “Child & Adolescent Development and Psychopathology” and three seminars in Year 2, “Clinical Pragmatics,” “Research Literacy for Child and Adolescent Pyschiatrists” and “Developmental Neuroscience” are Harvard Medical School seminars and are attended by all Harvard child and adolescent psychiatry residents.

In both years, residents in both classes will meet with the Training Director every other week. This time will be devoted to a variety of activities, which will include Transition to Practice and Administration, Ethics and Management seminars. In addition, it will give the time to problem-solve about difficulties arising in the clinical rotations and seminars and discuss other clinical, administrative, ethical, academic or personal issues requested by the residents. On alternate weeks, residents in both classes will meet together with Drs. Beresin and Harrison for the Psychotherapy Seminar.


Primary Supervision
All first-year residents will meet weekly, as a group, with Dr. Michael Jellinek to review cases, discuss specific topics such as school consultations and medical ethics, review aspects of administrative psychiatry and focus on developing an identity as a child and adolescent psychiatrist. A core part of this seminar will include a curriculum in the principles and practice of health care delivery, including managed care and medical economics.


Training Program Case Conferences
There is a weekly outpatient case conference for residents in Year 1. This conference is co-led by Drs. Martin Miller and Ellen Blumenthal at MGH and is open to all trainees and staff. A wide variety of cases are presented to the leaders, followed by active discussion. The goals of the conference are to address complex diagnostic problems, psychodynamic formulation, multimodal therapeutic interventions and other technical aspects of outpatient treatment and case management.

A Partial Hospital Case Conference for second-year residents is led by Dr. Michael Hollander. Inpatient Case Conference are led by onsite faculty. They are also multidisciplinary in nature, including all staff and trainees in the McLean Hospital system of care. Cases are presented weekly to distinguished senior faculty members of the Franciscan, MGH and McLean Hospitals.

Elective Seminars
There are many elective seminars in the child and adolescent and general psychiatry programs that residents may take, with permission from the Training Director.


MGH Grand Rounds, McLean Grand Rounds
and McLean Child Psychiatry Conference Series
Residents may attend MGH Grand Rounds and McLean Grand Rounds held weekly in the Departments of Psychiatry. They may also attend the monthly McLean Child Psychiatry Conference Series and Grand Rounds in Pediatrics and Neurology at MGH.


Harvard Professional Schools
As a department in the Harvard Medical School we have access, with permission, for residents to participate in a variety of educational opportunities at other institutions, e.g., School of Public Health, Business School and Law School. This must be done during the elective time and under the supervision of the Training Director.