Chief Residency and Administrative Psychiatry
All residents in their second year will devote approximately eight hours weekly during the four-month Elective Block to a chief residency position. This rotation is designed to give the residents experience teaching, primarily in the APS, and learning principles of administrative psychiatry. The following are the goals, objectives and duties of the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Chief Residency position:

Goals and Objectives
• To implement child and adolescent resident participation in the clinical components of the MHG/McLean Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Residency. Coordination of resident clinical training activities will be carried out under the supervision of each rotation’s service chief and the Training Director. These administrative duties will include such activities as: triage and assignment of outpatient cases, assisting with logistical problems in clinical rotations, developing and modifying on-call schedules, etc.

• To understand basic principles of the clinical administration of health care delivery systems in outpatient, consultation, inpatient and partial hospital child and adolescent psychiatry.

• To gain increased skill in teaching junior child and adolescent psychiatry residents, general psychiatry residents, medical students and allied health professionals.