Successor facility to Worcester State Hospital: a 290 bed, state of the art facility of the Massachusetts Department of Mental Health, in Worcester, MA
Duration/Time: July-Dec; 3 days/week
Supervisors: Paul Noroian, MD and Margarita Abi Zeid Danu, MD
Designated Forensic Psychiatrist, Forensic Mental Health Supervisor
Goals: achieve a broad knowledge of the legal standards and clinical issues involved in court-ordered evaluations on a state hospital court evaluation unit and forensic consultations within a state hospital run by the Department of Mental Health; conduct various types of court-ordered evaluations and forensic clinical consultations and risk assessments; prepare reports and when needed provide expert testimony.
A 275 bed forensic facility of the Massachusetts Department of Correction, in Bridgewater, MA
Duration/Time: Jan-June; 3 days/week
Supervisor: clinical – Kyle Walker, M.D.; Dan Comiskey, M.D.; Forensic: TBD
Goals: achieve a broad knowledge of the legal standards and clinical issues involved in court-ordered evaluations on a state hospital court evaluation unit and forensic consultations within a state hospital run by the Department of Correction; conduct various types of court-ordered evaluations and forensic clinical consultations and risk assessments; prepare reports and when needed provide expert testimony; Gain experience in the psychiatric care and treatment of persons involved in the criminal justice system.
Duration/Time: 3 months; 1 day/week
Supervisor: Adeliza Olivero, M.D.
Goals: Gain an understanding of the legal standards and practice issues involved in adult court clinic-based criminal and civil forensic evaluations, while working in a fast-paced environment and providing expert testimony in most cases.
Duration/Time: 3 months; 1 day/week
Supervisor: Danielle Audet Khanna, PsyD
Goals: Gain an understanding of the legal standards and practice issues involved in juvenile court clinic-based evaluations while working in a busy court, conducting evaluations, preparing reports and providing expert testimony.
Duration/Time: 2 months; 1 day/week
Supervisor: Mass Mental Health Clinic – James Feldman, M.D.
Goal: provide treatment for individuals with mental illness and problematic sexual behaviors, consultations about appropriateness of chemical castration and other treatments and evaluations of sexually inappropriate behaviors, need for treatment.
Duration/Time: 2x/wk for 12 weeks
Duration/Time: varies
Supervisor: varies
Goal: Conduct consultations involving issues such as psychiatric disability, guardianship, Asylum applications, sexual misconduct, psychological injury, malpractice, criminal matters, and violence risk assessment; Prepare reports based on evaluations conducted; Provide expert testimony when warranted.
Duration/Time: Elective
Supervisor: UMass Memorial Health Psychiatry Faculty
Goal: Involvement with UMass Memorial Health's Ethics/Treatment Issues Committee. Ethics consult cases are discussed retrospectively. Through this elective, fellows attend the medical center’s Ethics/Treatment Issues Committee meetings and gain experience with general medical ethics and ethical issues arising in a tertiary-care teaching hospital. Opportunities for scheduled case discussions are also available with faculty from the Ethics Consultation Team and with the Treatment Issues Committee. Residents pursuing this elective may also have opportunities to teach ethics to medical students and psychology trainees.