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Brown and Yale have much better reputations.
Yale has a good program, maybe a tier lower than the Resnick-line programs (including CWRU’s fellowship which was founded by Resnick as well as those founded by his academic heirs at UC Davis (Scott) and SUNY Upstate (Knoll.))
Are you sure about UMass? I know someone who just graduated from their fellowship program and UMass is/was affiliated with MA Recovery Center and Bridgewater. The MGH program is pretty weak with only one core faculty member being forensically trained and they don’t even have a fellow every year due to difficulty obtaining attendings and rotation sites (when I was considering doing a forensic fellowship I was strongly discouraged from applying there by people in the field, including a close friend of the program director’s, and they also weren’t accepting fellows that year). As an addiction fellow I was supervising their forensic fellow who was doing a C/L rotation, on any addiction consults he got to give some insight into the quality of training (i.e., doing general and addiction C/L rotations as a forensic fellow and being supervised by another fellow…). There’s also been perpetual talk on the street of the MGH fellowship potentially closing down permanently.
I heard through the grapevine they didn’t participate in the match last year and my quick look at ERAS shows they’re not registered to participate in this year’s application cycle either.
That’s pretty bleak. Why would a forensic fellow do addictions or consultation-liaison work?
My thoughts exactly. It’s listed as core rotation on their fellowship website and I think it has to do with their program director primarily being a C/L psychiatrist at BWH.
