Fellow - Primary Care Psychiatry
Company: Family Health Center
Location: Worcester
Posted on: February 16, 2026
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Job Description:
Job Description Job Description We are now accepting
applications from primary care clinicians (physicians, nurse
practitioners, and physician's assistants in primary care
specialties) and recently graduated psychiatric nurse practitioners
for positions in our fifth cohort. The Family Health Center of
Worcester / University of Massachusetts Department of Family
Medicine and Community Health Primary Care Psychiatry Fellowship
seeks to meet the growing need for improved access to outpatient
psychiatric care in the United States, particularly among
structurally-marginalized populations, through an intensive
one-to-two-year training program (12 month, 18 month, and 24 months
tracks available) based in an urban community health center with an
affiliated academic medical center. This post-graduate fellowship
program trains primary care providers to become leaders in the
delivery of comprehensive, integrated, and holistic physical and
mental health care in primary care settings serving
structurally-marginalized urban communities by training them as
clinicians, advocates, community health scholars, and teachers. We
specifically seek to help fill the gap that exists between the
current psychiatric model, wherein massive limitations exist in
accessing quality care for most of the country, and the
compassionate, collaborative, and equitable care that all patients
deserve. We focus longitudinally on two main principles: 1) the
structural and socioecological determinants of mental health, and
2) the impact of traumatic stress on the physical and psychological
wellbeing of structurally-marginalized communities. Fellows perform
a mix of outpatient clinical work, self and collaborative study,
clinical case review, didactic learning, conference attendance, and
teaching. Fellows provide 5 sessions of direct patient care each
week in the health center. After receiving training over the first
few months of the fellowship, fellows also conduct psychiatric
evaluations with patients internally referred to our team and
provide curbside consultation services to PCPs in the practice.
Fellows have 4 sessions of educational time set aside for
didactics, academic seminar, clinical case reviews, and
self-directed study of educational modules created for the fellows.
More information can be found on our academic website at
https://www.umassmed.edu/fmch/primary -care-psychiatry/ Applicants
are asked to submit their CV, personal statement, and three letters
of recommendation using this form:
https://app.smartsheet.com/b/form/07b3c6a0f8ae46fb96ca248fb89b2fd6
Monday - Friday; 8:30am-5:00pm
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