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- ↑ Massachusetts General Hospital, Psychiatry Department Facts, 2006 Archived 2008-05-06 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ U.S. News & World Report , survey of America's Best Hospitals, 2007
- ↑ "Reed Medical Reels in Mass General", Tradeshow Week, October 2007
- ↑ Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Academy's archived program of The Returning Veteran: PTSD and Traumatic Brain Injury
- ↑ Psychiatry Academy faculty list, 2008
- ↑ "Massachusetts General Hospital Psychiatry Academy". mghcme.org. Retrieved 14 May 2020.