Clinical Fellow MD

The Division of Women's Mental Health Psychiatry Fellowship is a full-time, 12-month PGY-V clinical fellowship at McLean Hospital designed to provide training in multimodal and evidence-based treatments for the major mental health issues facing women today. These include trauma, eating disorders, substance use disorders, borderline personality disorder, and mood and anxiety disorders.

Working in different levels of care-inpatient, residential, partial hospitalization, and outpatient-with women often with co-occurring disorders and at different points in their treatment, the fellowship provides in-depth exposure to the mental health challenges unique to women. Led by Amy Gagliardi, MD, clinical director of the Division of Women's Mental Health, the fellowship aims to provide outstanding training in women's mental health to future clinical and academic leaders.

The fellowship rotations include the Gunderson Residence, the Dissociative Disorders and Trauma Inpatient Program, 3East (an adolescent DBT program), and the Klarman Eating Disorders Center. The fellow meets weekly with individual clinical supervisors and with program leadership on each rotation, weekly with Dr. Amy Gagliardi for clinical case review, and monthly with Dr. Shelly F. Greenfield, chief of the Division of Women's Mental Health and chief academic officer of McLean Hospital.

The fellow participates in at least one outpatient longitudinal experience in evidence-based treatments designed for women, including co-leadership of the outpatient Women's Recovery Group, an empirically-validated, gender-specific group therapy for women with substance use disorders. The fellow also gains experience in the medical aspects of women's mental health (including pregnancy, postpartum, and menopause) through a two-month part-time rotation at Brigham and Women's Hospital.

At McLean, the fellow has the opportunity to provide cross-divisional clinical consultations and engage in a scholarly project. Professional conferences, divisional educational meetings and trainings, and other relevant learning opportunities at McLean are also included as a part of the fellow's curriculum of learning.