HCA Healthcare-Tufts University School of Medicine: Portsmouth Regional Hospital Program

Program Identity & Fit

This is a new, community-based psychiatry residency at HCA Healthcare's Portsmouth Regional Hospital, academically affiliated with Tufts University School of Medicine, built around a 30-bed inpatient behavioral health unit (the second-largest in New Hampshire) supplemented by rotations at Hampstead Hospital (child/adolescent), LifeStance Health (outpatient), and New Hampshire Hospital (geriatric/forensic). The curriculum is broad and generalist, balancing psychopharmacology and psychotherapy across inpatient, outpatient, consult-liaison, addiction, forensic, and emergency psychiatry rotations, with explicit interdisciplinary exposure alongside internal medicine and family medicine co-residents. Scholarly activity is required but framed as a supportive, mentorship-driven expectation rather than an academic-research identity, leveraging HCA's national GME data infrastructure and QI project requirements rather than bench or grant-funded research. As an inaugural program, it emphasizes resident input in shaping training, a "family" culture, and well-being infrastructure (HCA's Pathways to Flourishing model), suggesting it values adaptable, community-minded trainees comfortable building a program's identity rather than stepping into an established, hierarchical academic structure.