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Neuropsychology
Clinical Training Sites:
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MGH Psychology Assessment
Center
(PAC), established in 1997, at Massachusetts
General Hospital, combines assessment
specialists from the Departments of Neurology,
Psychiatry and Pediatrics. By coming together in
one center, it is now possible for allied
professionals to address these different aspects
of psychological functioning, and discuss their
findings concerning the patient. In doing so, we
provide a better assessment, both to the patient
and to the referring physician, school or
family. The faculty of the Psychology Assessment
Center is also dedicated to research that
furthers our understanding of disorders that we
assess and the training of practitioners to
provide care for patients seeking such services.
The PAC is staffed by 13 psychologists
representing child, developmental, clinical and
neuropsychology. Interns and post-doctoral
fellows are trained in personality, educational,
emotional and neuropsychological assessment
depending on their training track or
post-doctoral program.
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Acute Psychiatry Service (APS).
The APS is the largest and busiest 24 hour
emergency psychiatric service in the
metropolitan Boston area. Interns provide 4
hours of coverage every week in the APS
evaluating and assessing emergency walk-in
patients. On-site supervision and training are
provided by attending psychiatrists. Interns
collaborate and work closely with psychiatry
residents in assessing and establishing
appropriate treatment dispositions for patients
in acute distress.
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Inpatient Psychiatric Unit
(Blake 11). Blake 11 is a 24 bed locked unit.
The patient population of Blake 11 is quite
varied, although certain classes of patients
tend to predominate: patients with complex
medical/psychiatric illnesses, geriatric
patients posing difficult differential
diagnostic questions, such as depression vs.
dementia, patients with chronic treatment
resistant mental illnesses who require periodic
acute psychiatric care, patients suffering from
eating disorders and patients with Axis II
conditions resulting in instability and the need
for close supervision.
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