Psychiatry - Physician - Academics - Program Director

The Department of Psychiatry at Tufts Medical Center is seeking a full-time, BC/BE Adult Psychiatrist to serve as our next Program Director for the General Psychiatry Residency. This is a unique opportunity to lead and grow a dynamic residency program within an academic medical center committed to compassionate care, excellence in education, and clinical innovation.

About the Role

In this leadership role, you will have responsibility for program direction and clinical care. Key responsibilities include:

Graduate Medical Education Leadership: Oversee and guide the residency program with a focus on educational excellence, program growth, and continuous quality improvement. Develop, implement, and refine a curriculum that meets ACGME requirements and addresses the needs of diverse, urban patient populations.

Faculty Development: Mentor and support faculty in their teaching, supervision, and professional development roles.

Clinical Practice: You will maintain a clinical footprint, with flexibility to align your clinical interests in areas such as outpatient psychiatry, consultation-liaison and emergency psychiatry, inpatient psychiatry, or addiction services.

Why Join Us?

Work alongside a collaborative, mission-driven, multidisciplinary team

Teach and mentor medical students, psychiatry residents, and PA students

Protected time and institutional support for education leadership and clinical interests

Academic appointment at Tufts University School of Medicine at the rank of Assistant, Associate, or Full Professor

Expansion of training sites and clinical opportunities, including:

Lowell General Hospital: Emergency and consult-liaison psychiatry

Tufts Medicine Behavioral Health Hospital: Inpatient child, geriatric, addiction, and general psychiatry; IOPs, PHPs, ECT, TMS

About the Tufts General Psychiatry Residency

Our ACGME-accredited program offers an exceptional balance of training in both hospital-based and outpatient psychiatry. With strong mentorship, progressive autonomy, and leadership development, the program is known for preparing residents for successful, fulfilling careers.

Recent achievements include:

Full accreditation with no citations and a commendation for “substantial compliance”

ACGME survey scores above the national mean with a continued upward trend

Ongoing efforts to expand training sites across the Tufts Medicine system and develop future fellowships in Addiction Psychiatry, Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry, and Geriatric Psychiatry

Who You Are

An experienced academic psychiatrist with a passion for GME leadership and program development

Board Certified or Board Eligible in Psychiatry

Eligible for licensure in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Skilled in mentorship, difficult conversations, and fostering professional growth

An emotionally intelligent communicator who builds trust across teams

Committed to DEI, with a strong track record of advancing diversity in academic medicine

Able to balance strategy with day-to-day program operations

Work, Live, and Grow:

Boston, Massachusetts is a dynamic, innovative, and historic city with something for everyone. Whether you seek cultural attractions, an intellectual environment, music and entertainment, museums, night-life, shopping, fitness, food festivals, or a sunset harbor cruise - you will find it here. The city of Boston is ideally located in close proximity to the coastal beach towns of Cape Cod and the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts, the White Mountains of New Hampshire, and the Green Mountains of Vermont, which offer great summertime recreational activities from swimming, sailing, fishing, hiking, and rock climbing and great winter activities from Nordic skiing to downhill skiing and snowboarding. Boston consistently ranks as one of the most desirable places in the country to live and to raise a family.

Full-Time