Mass General Brigham-Brigham and Women's Hospital-Harvard Medical School Program

Program Identity & Fit

BWH/HMS is a flagship Harvard-affiliated academic psychiatry program explicitly oriented toward producing future leaders in academic practice, research, education, innovation, health systems and policy. The four-year curriculum layers neuroscience, psychopharmacology (including ECT, TMS, ketamine, and psychedelic-assisted therapies), psychotherapy across multiple modalities, and community/forensic psychiatry, with clinical sites spanning Brigham and Women's, Faulkner Hospital, Boston Children's Hospital, Massachusetts Mental Health Center, and McLean. Research is deeply institutionalized through a dedicated Research Track with mentored lab placements, protected scholarly half-days for all residents, and access to Harvard-wide faculty working in neuroimaging, precision psychiatry, digital therapeutics, and addiction science. A separate Child Track (with Boston Children's Hospital) and formal mentorship/sponsorship structures reinforce a program built for residents pursuing subspecialized fellowship, physician-scientist, or academic leadership trajectories rather than generalist community practice.