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Professional Development

For nearly 200 years McLean Hospital—a Harvard Medical School teaching hospital—has been providing the finest professional education and resources for a wide range of mental health care professionals. Our top-notch and fully accredited programming supports professional development with a focus on...

Train at McLean

From psychiatry residencies to post-graduate fellowships to opportunities for students, McLean has been training mental health care professionals for over 200 years. Find out how you can train at McLean.

Social Work Training

McLean’s Social Work Department offers training opportunities for clinical social workers. Training is available for master’s, post master’s, and doctoral level clinicians. Social Work Intern Training Program This unpaid master’s degree clinical internship is for second year graduate students...

Nursing Training

McLean’s Nursing Department offers training for undergraduate and graduate nursing students focused on psychiatric nursing. In order to facilitate these training opportunities, the Nursing Department has contracts in place with many local colleges and universities in the Boston area including Boston...

Innovations in Mental Health Care Master Class

For more than a decade, the NSV Foundation has hosted one of India’s most sought-after mental health conferences aimed at providing up-to-date information about the latest standards and protocols in the delivery of mental health care. In 2019, McLean and the NSV Foundation formally teamed up to...

Grand Rounds

Grand Rounds Throughout the academic year, September through June, McLean offers weekly lectures, given by world-renowned speakers, on a variety of topics, such as psychopharmacology, psychosocial treatments and clinical case conferences. Grand Rounds are held every Thursday 12-1pm in Pierce Hall...

Psychiatry Fellowships

McLean Hospital offers numerous opportunities for post-graduate training in a variety of mental health specialties. Our fellowships allow for focused training in addiction, older adult mental health care, neurology and neuropsychiatry, women’s mental health. Psychiatry fellowships: Addiction...

Mental Health Clinical Pastoral Education Program

McLean’s Mental Health Clinical Pastoral Education Program offers interfaith professional education for students who provide mental health chaplaincy services. In mental health clinical pastoral education (CPE), theological students and spiritual leaders of all faiths—pastors, priests, rabbis, imams...

Residencies

McLean Hospital is a leader in world-class psychiatry training. We are proud to be home to two of the foremost psychiatry residency training programs in the country. Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Child and Adolescent Residency Training Psychiatric Pharmacy Residency Training MGH/McLean Adult...

Student Opportunities

McLean Hospital has educational opportunities for college graduates , undergraduate researchers , medical students , and students at Harvard University . Post-Baccalaureate Child and Adolescent Clinical Fellowship Program The Simches Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at McLean Hospital...

Doctoral Training

McLean’s Psychology Training Department offers a number of doctoral and pre-doctoral training opportunities. Psychology internship Adult psychology practicum Child psychology practicum Doctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology The McLean Hospital/Harvard Medical School Doctoral Internship in...

Gunderson Personality Disorders Institute

The Gunderson Personality Disorders Institute at McLean Hospital was founded in 2013 to elevate awareness and training for evidence-based treatments for borderline personality disorder (BPD) and accompanying psychiatric conditions. Led by director Lois W. Choi-Kain, MEd, MD , the Gunderson Institute...

McLean + USFQ Mental Health Congress

Universidad San Francisco de Quito (USFQ), in collaboration with McLean Hospital is proud to present the 2020 Mental Health Congress in Quito, Ecuador. The focus of this year’s conference trauma-informed care and crisis intervention. This multiday conference for mental health clinicians provides a...

Current Status of Suicide-Focused Assessment and Treatment

This online resource was developed with the mission of providing clinicians with information regarding the current status of suicide-focused assessment and treatment. The information has been compiled from a review of available evidence from existing literature and supplemented by clinical consensus...

Psychology Fellowships

McLean Hospital offers numerous opportunities for post-graduate training in a variety of mental health specialties. Our fellowships allow for focused training in child/adolescent, adult, and older adult mental health care. Adult psychology fellowships: Fernside Post-Doctoral Fellowship in Addiction...

Post-Baccalaureate Child and Adolescent Clinical Fellowship Program

The Simches Division of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at McLean Hospital offers a two-year Post-Baccalaureate Clinical (PBac) Fellowship Program for college graduates interested in pursuing a career in mental health. This guided, entry-level professional experience is shaped by the four pillars of...