During the PGY3 year, the resident increases his or her involvement at the BIDMC outpatient clinic to half time throughout the year. During the outpatient experience, the resident is involved in the full range of treatments; including psychopharmacology, short- and long-term dynamic psychotherapy, cognitive and behavioral therapies, couples therapy, and group therapy.

The remainder of the time PGY3 year is devoted to several outpatient clinical selectives. Each resident spends approximately half of their time at the BIDMC Rabb-2 outpatient clinic, seeing patients for psychopharmalogic management and psychotherapy, and about one-quarter of their time seeing patients at the Massachusetts Mental Health Center, focusing on the treatment of serious and persistent mental illness. Residents are able to choose from several selective experiences for the remainder of their time, including:

• Addictions Psychiatry
• The Berenson Allen Center for Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation (including Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation)
• Center for Early Detection, Assessment, and Response to RISK (CEDAR) (Early intervention for those at high risk for development of psychotic disorders)
• Collaborative Care through the BIDMC-Lahey Health system
• College Mental Health at Harvard University
• Court Clinic at the Suffolk County Court
• Dimmock Community Mental Health Center
• Electroconvulsive Therapy
• Fenway Community Health Center (focused on caring for LGBTQ individuals)
• The Dimock Community Health Center
• Outpatient Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at Boston Children's Hospital
• Palliative Care
• Program for the Mentally Ill with Problematic Sexual Behavior (MIPSB)
• Psychiatry within the Cognitive Neurology Unit
• Psycho-oncology
• Research
• Women's Mental Health

For more detailed descriptions of these opportunities, please see the section titled "Specific Rotations".