Fellow - Primary Care Psychiatry

We are now accepting applications from primary care clinicians (physicians, nurse practitioners, and physician's assistants in primary care specialties) and recently graduated psychiatric nurse practitioners for positions in our fifth cohort.

 The Family Health Center of Worcester / University of Massachusetts Department of Family Medicine and Community Health Primary Care Psychiatry Fellowship seeks to meet the growing need for improved access to outpatient psychiatric care in the United States, particularly among structurally-marginalized populations, through an intensive one-to-two-year training program (12 month, 18 month, and 24 months tracks available) based in an urban community health center with an affiliated academic medical center. 

This post-graduate fellowship program trains primary care providers to become leaders in the delivery of comprehensive, integrated, and holistic physical and mental health care in primary care settings serving structurally-marginalized urban communities by training them as clinicians, advocates, community health scholars, and teachers. We specifically seek to help fill the gap that exists between the current psychiatric model, wherein massive limitations exist in accessing quality care for most of the country, and the compassionate, collaborative, and equitable care that all patients deserve. We focus longitudinally on two main principles: 1) the structural and socioecological determinants of mental health, and 2) the impact of traumatic stress on the physical and psychological wellbeing of structurally-marginalized communities.

Fellows perform a mix of outpatient clinical work, self and collaborative study, clinical case review, didactic learning, conference attendance, and teaching. 

Fellows provide 5 sessions of direct patient care each week in the health center. After receiving training over the first few months of the fellowship, fellows also conduct psychiatric evaluations with patients internally referred to our team and provide curbside consultation services to PCPs in the practice.

Fellows have 4 sessions of educational time set aside for didactics, academic seminar, clinical case reviews, and self-directed study of educational modules created for the fellows. 

 More information can be found on our academic website at https://www.umassmed.edu/fmch/primary-care-psychiatry/

 Applicants are asked to submit their CV, personal statement, and three letters of recommendation using this form: https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/07b3c6a0f8ae46fb96ca248fb89b2fd6