Bedford Electives

Bedford VA Electives
Bedford Chief Resident

Experience: Administration, Teaching, Clinical (optional), working closely with first and second year residents and BUSM third year medical students providing clinical supervision and teaching. Residents may select clinical ares of interest to enhance their clinical skills.
Location : Bedford VA
Faculty: L. Herz MD (Psychiatry Service Line Manager)
Requirements: 3 days/ week for 12 months

Public Health Scholar Research and Administrative Psychiatry

Experience: Administration, work with experienced psychiatric administrators. Research is conducted as part of the BU School of Public Health curriculum in policy and planning that may included Quality Improvement, public health developments and outcome studies.
Location : Bedford VA
Faculty: L. Herz MD (Psychiatry Service Line Manager); C. Coldwell MD, MPH (Mental Health VISN Director)
Requirements: 3 days/ week for 12 months

Interprofessional Team

Experience: Clinical, member of Interprofessional Team providing full service care to veterans working with other mental health professionals and trainees. Residents have the opportunity for additional experience in telepsychiatry.
Location : Bedford VA
Faculty: L. Herz MD (Psychiatry Service Line Manager)
Requirements: 3 days/ week for 2 or more months

Geriatric Psychiatry

Experience:  Research and/or clinical, work with veterans and their families in award winning Geriatric Research Education Clinical Center (GRECC)
Location: Bedford VA
Faculty: F. Frankenburg MD (Inpatient Medical Director) and L. Herz MD (Psychiatry Service Line Manage and Director, Geriatric Psychiatry)
Requirement:  2 days; 3-12 months

Administrative Psychiatry

Experience:  Administration, work with experienced psychiatric administrators
Location : Bedford VA
Faculty: L. Herz MD (Psychiatry Service Line Manager); C. Coldwell MD, MPH (Mental Health VISN Director)
Requirements: 2-3 days, Wed required.

Crisis Intervention/Evaluation

Experience: Walk-in Psychiatry Clinic provides assessment and treatment of veterans who present with acute psychiatric problems
Location: Bedford VA
Faculty: L, Herz MD
Requirements: 1-3 days/week for 1 or more months

Research

Experience: Various
Location: Bedford VA
Faculty: Various
Requirements:   2-3 days for 6-12 months;time requirement varies with project;Interview

Inpatient Psychiatry

Experience:  Inpatient Psychiatry. Residents may expand upon their earlier training in Inpatient Psychiatry to prepare for post-graduate inpatient psychiatry careers by taking leadership roles under supervision in the treatment of acute inpatient psychiatry patients.
Location:   Bedford VA
Faculty:  K. Ackerman MD and Y. Maskovich MD
Requirements: 3 days; 2 or more months