Core Academic Seminars
Formal seminars covering all areas of child psychiatry are integrated with clinical experiences. The Core Academic Seminars are outlined on the following two pages. Note that one seminar in Year 1, “Child & Adolescent Developmental Psychiatry and Psychopathology” and two seminars in Year 2, “Integrating Clinical Perspectives” and “Quantitative Methods & 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. An Inpatient Case Conference is led by Dr. Thrassos Calligas. 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 and
McLean Academic Case Conference
Residents may attend MGH Grand Rounds and McLean Academic Case Conference held weekly in the Departments of Psychiatry. They may also attend 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.