10/15/20 Grand Rounds

Jessica Isom, MD, MPH
Clinical Instructor, Yale University Department of Psychiatry
Attending Psychiatrist, Codman Square Health Center
Attending Psychiatrist, Boston Medical Center, Department of Psychiatry

Psychiatrists are ill-equipped to name, identify and respond to manifestations of racism in their clinical practice. This essential skill is not a core ACGME requirement, thus, additional educational interventions meet this need for both trainees and post-graduate psychiatrists in order to support effort to reduce race-based mental health disparities.

Learning Objectives:

1. Define the three levels of racism with examples relevant to psychiatry

2. Discuss the concepts of racial anxiety and stereotype threat to poor outcomes during interracial encounters with colleagues and patients

3. List the components of a race equity approach to psychiatry