PROGRAM

Goals and Acheivements

The residency is the result of years of planning by Harvard faculty members whose goal was to create a program that prepares leaders of psychiatry for the next decades. The planners and leaders of this program recognize that psychiatry has changed considerably in recent years and that the health care delivery system will change dramatically in the next years. While tomorrow's leaders must be steeped in the traditions of psychiatry, they must also be exposed to treatment settings that have not been a part of more traditional programs but are the sites where many of our patients will be treated in the next decades. Moreover, they must master the treatment modalities that will be of most help to our patients in both traditional and new treatment settings.

Longwood institutions have rich traditions in research and clinical practice in the areas of psychodynamic psychiatry, the biological therapies, neurobiology, and the interface between psychiatry and the rest of medicine. There has also been a long-standing commitment to serve the disenfranchised mentally ill and to explore ways to improve services for patients treated in the public sector. HLPRTP is committed to continuing in this vein.

The unique design and innovative curriculum of Harvard Longwood were recognized by the American College of Psychiatrists with its prestigious Award for Creativity in Psychiatric Education. Year after year, we have attracted an unusually talented and diverse group of residents, many of whom have been acknowledged nationally for their contributions during their residency. Our residents have been awarded the American Psychiatric Association (APA)/Glaxo Welcome Fellowship Program, the APA/Bristol-Myers Squibb Fellowship Program for Community Psychiatry, the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry's Ginsburg Fellowship, the American College of Psychiatrists' Laughlin Fellowship, the APA AstraZeneca Minority Fellowship, the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law's Rappaport Fellowship, APA/Aventis Travel Program for Women Residents in Psychiatry, the American Psychoanalytic Society's Fellowship, the APA/Lilly Resident Research Award, as well as other highly coveted honors.