Teaching
Residents will have opportunities to have speaking engagements with teachers and lay groups. They may participate in the Psychiatry Service’s continuing medical education programs and teach pediatricians and mental health professionals.

Residents will have ample opportunity to teach medical students during their clinical rotations at MGH, McLean Hospital, Franciscan Children’s Hospital and affiliated institutions. In addition, they will teach child and adolescent psychiatry to general psychiatry residents, pediatric house officers, nurses on the wards and social work and psychology clinical fellows.

In-service training of professional and non-professional staff is integrated with the delivery of services in order to improve patient care and to develop staff abilities. Child and adolescent
psychiatry residents, as team leaders and teachers, work closely with clinical child psychology trainees, medical students, child social work students, nurses, child care workers, clinical educators and their assistants, volunteers, dieticians and maintenance and secretarial personnel who form part of the therapeutic environment for children. In-service training programs for support staff include orientations, guidance, conferences, lectures, seminars, demonstrations and individual and group supervision.

Child and adolescent psychiatry residents welcome the opportunity to serve as teachers and mentors to all colleagues and, in particular, to medical students. At MGH, residents will teach medical students in the Outpatient Clinic, the APS and on the Consultation Service. Medical students from Harvard and other universities come to McLean or Franciscan Children’s Hospital for a one or two-month, full-time elective course in child psychiatry offered with the curriculum of the Harvard Medical School. Child psychiatry residents, assigned as mentors, teach the student by means of demonstrations and by guidance of the student’s psychiatric evaluation and treatment of children and families.

In addition, the Core Clinical Clerkship (Harvard Medical School Catalog No. 500M.10) includes a month-long child development seminar and interviewing demonstration for third and fourth year medical students at McLean and MGH. All second year child and adolescent psychiatry residents will participate in this course.