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Join Dr. Sanya Virani and her guests, Paul B. Hill, M.D., and Dr. Hugh Caldwell to discuss the invaluable new title The Psychiatry Resident Handbook which aims to provide support, experience and mentorship to new residents, a book that trainees across the country will benefit from having on their bookshelves. In this episode, our guests -both contributors to the section on physician Impairment, share their experiences and perspectives around the subjects of physician burnout and substance abuse among colleagues and professionals, and what treatments and tools are available for best outcomes.

In this episode:
Introduction (0:11)
Recent experiences and observations (02:20)
Helpful programs, PHPs and resources (05:10)
The Well toolkit (14:40)
Peers in other specialties (17:50)
Confidentiality (21:10)
The Blueprint project (27:10)
Closing thoughts (29:08)

Dr. Paul B. Hill is a psychiatrist specializing in the treatment of geriatric and medically ill patients in Memphis, Tennessee.  Dr. Hill is on the faculty of the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC) College of Medicine.

Dr. Hugh Caldwell is an Assistant Professor, also at the University of Tennessee.

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Join Dr. Sanya Virani and her guests, Dr. Iverson Bell and Dr. Allison Ford to discuss the invaluable new title The Psychiatry Resident Handbook which aims to provide support, experience and mentorship to new residents, a book that trainees across the country will benefit from having on their bookshelves. In this episode, our guests -both contributors to the section on physician Impairment- share their experiences and perspectives around the subjects of physician burnout, compassion fatigue and substance abuse among colleagues and professionals, the signs to look out for, the consequences, and strategies for intervention.

In this episode:
Introduction (0:11)
Dr. Bell’s experience of physician impairment (2:45)
Dr. Ford’s experience of physician impairment (06:05)
The scope of the problem (10:00)
Defining “impairment” (16:30)
Personal experience of encountering stress in physicians (18:35)
Where to draw the line (24:25)
Confronting your colleagues (26:55)
Sobering statistics (30:35)
Closing thoughts (32:20)

Dr. Iverson Bell, Jr., MD, son of the AAVMC icon for diversity, earned the MD degree in 1977 from Vanderbilt University School of Medicine. Dr. Bell specializes in psychiatry and lives with his wife and children in Atlanta, GA.

Dr. Allison Ford is an Assistant Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at The University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

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There has been a dramatic upsurge in violence against Asian Americans over the last year since the outbreak of the virus in Wuhan China.  In this episode, Dr. Virani talks with Asian American and Pacific Islander Doctors about their experiences with racial trauma and cultural boundaries that have affected them and the lives of their patients.

Discussed in this episode

• The history of xenophobia against AAPIs
• DSM-5 cultural formation interview and its evolution
• Understanding the larger social context in which a patient lives
• Recommendations on how providers should respond to racist verbal assault and hate speech.
• Misdiagnosis due to lack of understanding of cultural issues
• Ethnic preference and sharing trust with patients and providers
• Cultural competence
• The CLAS Blueprint
• Cultural concepts of distress in the DSM

Peter Jongho Na, M.D., M.P.H., is an addiction psychiatry fellow at Yale University.

Francis G. Lu, M.D., is the Luke & Grace Kim Professor in Cultural Psychiatry, Emeritus, at the University of California, Davis.  As a Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association (APA), Dr. Lu has contributed to the areas of cultural psychiatry including the interface with religion/spirituality, psychiatric education, diversity/inclusion, mental health equity, and psychiatry/film. 

Dr. Connie Chen is a PGY-2 at the San Mateo County Psychiatry Residency Training Program in San Mateo, CA. She is also Co-Chair of the San Mateo County Chinese Health Initiative, where she coordinates efforts to promote access to mental health services and reduce stigma around mental illness in local Chinese and Asian American communities. Her interests include cultural psychiatry, psychotherapy, and public psychiatry.

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www.thinkculturalhealth.hhs.gov

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Diversity among women in psychiatric training programs is seldom discussed and in this episode, Dr. Virani talks with two accomplished women program directors about the challenges for women in training programs. Drs. Cama and DeJong cover issues ranging from failures of well-intentioned supervisors to pregnancy to the “imposter syndrome". 

Dr. Shireen Cama divides her time at Cambridge Health Alliance (CHA) between being the integrated child psychiatrist working as part of the CHA Child and Adolescent Mental Health Integration (CAMHI) program and the Associate Training Director for the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry Fellowship. As a member of the CAMHI team, she acts as a consultant to family medicine and pediatric providers on questions related to diagnosis and treatment of pediatric mental health and behavioral concerns.

Sandra DeJong, M.D., M.Sc., began her term as Secretary of the American Psychiatric Association at the end of the APA Annual Meeting in May 2019. Dr. DeJong is Senior Consultant to the Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Training Program at Cambridge Health Alliance where she was a training director from 2004-2018. She is an Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School and is in half-time private practice in Cambridge, MA.

Drs. Virani, Madaan, and Khan are International Medical Graduates (IMG) who come from different cultural backgrounds. Join these three as they recount personal stories of the highs and lows of being an IMG in the US.  They discuss the physician and patient discrimination they faced through micro and macro aggressions and the road ahead for them and for other IMGs. Also appearing in the episode is Sarah El-Halabi.

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Vishal Madaan, MD, is a tenured Associate Professor in Psychiatry and Child Psychiatry at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville. He is the founding Director for the Center for Psychopharmacology Research in Youth at UVA and serves as Training Director for the child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship program there. In the recent past, Dr. Madaan served as the Medical Director of the UVA child and family clinic, and Associate training director of the general psychiatry program at both University of Virginia and Creighton University.

Dr. Manal Khan from Karachi, Pakistan

Education: Jinnah Sindh Medical University, Pakistan (MB, BS) 

Residency: Duke University; University of Washington 

Professional Interests: Childhood adversity, trauma, structural racism and its impact on the mental health of minorities, cultural psychiatry, and psychotherapy.

Finding Our Voice continues to explore the issue of systemic racism.  In this special episode released during Black History Month, we examine the effects of social determinants on the African American community in America.    Dr. Virani discusses with her guests access to mental health care and the quality of care black patients encounter.  Dr. Talley and Dr. Metzger cover the profound impact of the lack of homeownership upon communities of color.

Guests: 

Dr. Rachel Talley is a Clinical Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. She is the Director of the University of Pennsylvania's Fellowship in Community Psychiatry, a one-year post-residency training program for psychiatrists interested in management and leadership in public and community systems of care. Before joining UPenn's faculty, Dr. Talley completed an adult psychiatry residency and public psychiatry fellowship at Columbia University/New York State Psychiatric Institute. Dr. Talley is also an Early Career Representative on the Board of the American Association for Community Psychiatry.

Dr. Sarita Metzger is a PGY4 at the University of Pennsylvania. She is interested in cultural Psychiatry and devoted to furthering mental health equity for people of color and LGBTQ+ communities; after graduation, she plans to continue training in mental health advocacy and policy as a fellow in the University of Pennsylvania's Public and Community Psychiatry fellowship.

In this episode, Dr. Sanya Virani and her guests discuss the impact of social determinants on the Hispanic community. Listen as Dr. Esperanza Diaz and Dr. Andrea Mendiola discuss challenges their patients have faced with outcomes both positive and negative. 

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Esperanza Díaz M.D. provides teaching and supervision for Yale medical students, psychiatry residents, and trainees from other disciplines such as psychology, nursing, and social work. Dr. Diaz received her M.D. degree from the Javeriana University in Bogotá, Colombia. She finished her Psychiatry residency at Yale School of Medicine. She is a Board Certified Psychiatrist and Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association. She is a psychoanalyst. Her research concentrates on adherence to medications, development of culturally sensitive mental health services to Hispanics with persistent mental disorders, development of teaching methods of culturally sensitive care.

Andrea Mendiola Iparraguirre, MD is Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at Yale School of Medicine  She completed her Psychiatry Residency at Maimonides Medical Center in Brooklyn, NY and received her MD from Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia in Lima, Peru

Join Dr. Sanya Virani and her guests, Alka Mathur, M.D., and Neal Amin, M.D., Ph.D. to discuss the invaluable new title The Psychiatry Resident Handbook which aims to provide support, experience and mentorship to new residents, a book that trainees across the country will benefit from having on their bookshelves. In this episode, our guests -both contributors to the chapter on telepsychiatry- share their experiences and perspectives around the pros and cons of moving to a remote, digital workspace, how Covid-19 has accelerated our societal transition to reliance on video-screens, and the challenges posed by new technology.

In this episode:
Introduction (0:09)
This episode’s guests (1:14)
Post-pandemic changes in the role of telepsychiatry (6:20)
The experience of a trainee during Covid-19 (8:59)
Experiences with different platforms (12:12)
Advantages of telepsychiatry (13:53)
Whither telepsychiatry? (18:37)
Interstate regulation (24:00)
Malpractice (25:39)
Consent and documentation (29:00)
Emergencies (34:00)
Platforms and the role of AI (37:01)
The age spectrum, and privacy concerns (39:14)
Conclusion (42:20)

Alka Mathur M.D. is a Stanford trained Psychiatrist where she is a Clinical Assistant Professor on the Affiliate Faculty Line. She previously served as the Medical Director of Virtual Behavioral Health Services for the VA Palo Alto Healthcare System, overseeing Telehealth services for all Mental Health Programming. Dr. Mathur has a strong interest in health innovation and digital applications to increase access to care.

Neal Amin M.D., Ph.D. is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Stanford University. He completed the Research Track Psychiatry Residency Program at Stanford University. He earned his MD and PhD degrees from the University of California, San Diego where he conducted his graduate studies at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.

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Join Dr. Sanya Virani and her guests, Dr. Sallie De Golia, Dr. Raziya Wang, and Dr. Csilla Lippert to discuss the invaluable new title The Psychiatry Resident Handbook which aims to provide support, experience and mentorship to new residents, a book that trainees across the country will benefit from having on their bookshelves. Editors De Golia and Wang are joined by an early career psychiatrist, Dr. Csilla Lippert, who contextualizes the book in terms of the differing experiences common in training and residency.

In this episode:
Introduction (0:10)
What led to the creation of this book? (2:59)
Why now? (6:23)
How is Psychiatry different from other residencies? (9:05)
The best ways to use this book (13:47)
The professional development journey of residency training (19:15)
Diversity in training (25:30)
Differing experiences of supervision (28:03)
Deliberate practice (39:00)
Seeking a mentor (44:30)

Sallie G. De Golia, M.D., M.P.H., is a Clinical Professor, Associate Chair of Clinician Educator Professional Development, and Co-Residency Director in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California.

Raziya S. Wang, M.D., is the former Designated Institutional Official and Program Director of Psychiatry Residency Training Program at San Mateo County in San Mateo, California. She is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor, in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine in Stanford, California.

Dr. Csilla Lippert earned her undergraduate degree from the California Institute of Technology followed by a combined MD and PhD in Biomedical Sciences from University of California, San Diego. She completed her psychiatry residency training at Stanford University, where she had additional specialized training in psychotherapy and teaching other physicians. Since 2021, Dr. Lippert has been working with veterans as a telehealth staff psychiatrist for the Veterans Affairs Palo Alto Health Care System.

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Dr. Virani focuses on the impact of Climate Change, and associated emergent anxieties, on our underlying mental health. Climate Change is affecting our livelihoods, our environments and our perceptions of the future; with implications on how we act and how we perceive our day-to-day lives. Virani (and guests) consider examples of patients presenting with climate-change specific conditions, discuss case-histories, and look for evidence that organizations are acting to address the causes and effects of Climate Change.

Discussed in the episode:

• Current data on Climate Change anxiety as a factor impacting mental health (3:00)
• Case study: “Jim” (5:15)
• Transformational Resilience (7:00)
• Don’t Look Up (11:45)
• Examples of improvement in climate change response at APA (13:15)
• Mental-health factors affecting “Jim” (15:15)
• Case-study: “Hannah” (18:30)
• Mental-health factors affecting “Hannah” (21:52)
• APA conference carbon footprint study (24:45)

Guests:

• Elizabeth Haase is Medical Director of Psychiatry for Carson Tahoe Regional Medical Center and an Associate Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of Nevada at Reno School of Medicine. She chairs the Committees on Climate Change and Mental Health for the American Psychiatric Association and the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry and is a founding member of the Climate Psychiatry Alliance.
• Joshua Wortzel is a chief resident in psychiatry at the University of Rochester, and he will be starting his child and adolescent psychiatry fellowship at Brown University in June. During residency, he is pursuing a Master’s in Health Professions Education at the University of Rochester. He is a member of the APA Committee on Climate and Mental Health, a steering committee member of the non-profit Climate Psychiatry Alliance, and a participant of the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry – Climate Committee. He also serves as the chair of the APA/APAF Leadership Fellowship.

Links:

Visit the CPA website here.

The effects of Climate Change on Mental Health film

Carbon Footprint JAMA article

Don’t Look Up (Adam McKay, 2021) is available on Netflix.

Climate Psychiatry: What Every Psychiatrist Should Know APA course

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