A Collaboration Between a Historically Black University and an Ivy League Psychiatric Research Center: A Psychiatrist's Reflections of the Impact on Residency Training

摘要

As detailed in the preceding paper, a central aim of the collaboration between our two institutions is building research capacity in minority-particularly, African-American-mental health. Building capacity is at the heart of my role in the collaboration, specifically, and at my university more broadly. As the training director of the psychiatry residency program, I am responsible for coordinating training for a small but very vibrant group of residents. Most of our residents are minority or international medical graduates; therefore, cultural competency has assumed an ever increasing role in our curriculum. In accordance with the our university's mission, we take care to select residents who are sympathetic and possibly committed to the cause of reducing racial disparities in mental health.