In January of 2023, Boston Medical Center became a designated Community Behavioral Health Center (CBHC) and is one of 25 CBHCs established across the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to provide timely, high quality psychiatric care in the community.  The CBHC helps direct patients to a continuum of care to ensure that they have the supports necessary in order to access various forms of psychiatric treatment across various levels of care.  In addition, this elective provides an opportunity to learn more about the community based supports that are available for patients.  Students will also be exposed to the value of educating primary care providers as well as clinicians in medical specialties about the complex medical needs of psychiatrically ill patients in the community.  Students will have an opportunity to engage in population health activities which aims to identify patients who are high utilizers of emergency psychiatric services and to work with a team to create a coordinated, team based approach to meet the specific needs of these types of patients.

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