Dartmouth Medical School

The Department of Psychiatry at Dartmouth Medical School offers a one-year PGY-5 fellowship in forensic psychiatry leading to Board eligibility. Fellows receive intense didactic and practical instruction from a faculty that includes five Board certified forensic psychiatrists, forensic psychologists, and attorneys. The program is based primarily out of Concord, NH and consists of three major components: New Hampshire Hospital, a modern state facility clinically operated by the Department of Psychiatry; New Hampshire Department of Corrections, including a 60-bed Secure Psychiatric Unit; and Community Forensic Psychiatry services. In addition to regularly scheduled seminars and conferences, fellows will also take courses at the Franklin Pierce Law Center, and participate in a research project. The fellowship year involves extensive experience in both civil and criminal areas of forensic psychiatry, including (but not limited to): involuntary commitment, administrative law, dangerousness assessment, adolescent legal issues, competency to stand trial, criminal responsibility and insanity, correctional psychiatry, sexual offenders, guardianship, personal injury and disability, employment law, and malpractice. There is ample opportunity to provide forensic psychiatry evaluations and court testimony under the supervision of the faculty.

Fringe benefits include travel to the annual AAPL meeting and enrollment in the Forensic Psychiatry Review Course.