Building a Diverse Psychiatric Workforce for the Future and Helping Them Thrive: Recommendations for Psychiatry Training Directors

Asale Hubbard; Andrew Sudler; Jean-Marie E Alves-Bradford; Nhi-Ha Trinh; Anne D Emmerich; Christina Mangurian

doi:10.1016/j.chc.2023.06.007

Building a Diverse Psychiatric Workforce for the Future and Helping Them Thrive: Recommendations for Psychiatry Training Directors

Child Adolesc Psychiatr Clin N Am. 2024 Jan;33(1):57-69. doi: 10.1016/j.chc.2023.06.007.

Authors

Asale Hubbard¹, Andrew Sudler², Jean-Marie E Alves-Bradford³, Nhi-Ha Trinh⁴, Anne D Emmerich⁴, Christina Mangurian⁵

Affiliations

¹ University of California, San Francisco Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, 675 18th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA; San Francisco VA Health Care System.
² University of California, San Francisco Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, 675 18th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA.
³ Columbia University Department of Psychiatry, 1051 Riverside Drive Box 112, New York, NY 10032, USA.
⁴ Massachusetts General Hospital Department of Psychiatry.
⁵ University of California, San Francisco Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Weill Institute for Neurosciences, 675 18th Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. Electronic address: christina.mangurian@ucsf.edu.

PMID: 37981337
DOI: 10.1016/j.chc.2023.06.007

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic and murder of Mr George Floyd served as catalysts for examining antiracism efforts in psychiatry training programs and health care systems. Our recruitment and retention of Black, Indigenous, and other racial/ethnic minority psychiatry trainees has not met the demand for care and does not represent the communities served. Training directors at a critical juncture in creating systemic changes to recruitment, retention, policies, and curricular competencies to address ongoing inequities and disparities in health care. We describe several strategies and considerations for training directors in supporting a diverse psychiatric workforce.

Keywords: Anti-racism; Psychiatry residency recruitment; Psychiatry residency training; Structural competency; Training directors; Workforce diversity.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Ethnicity
Humans
Internship and Residency*
Minority Groups
Pandemics
Psychiatry*
Workforce