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General Psychiatry Residency Program

Our team provides mental health equity specific education to psychiatry residents throughout the four years of general training.ÌýÌý

The Mental Health Equity Curriculum includes didactic sessions on topics impacting mental healthcare access, quality, and outcomes. Topics include a focus on self-awareness, cultural humility, social determinants of health, mental health disparities, community engagement, and physician advocacy.Ìý In addition, teaching faculty are encouraged to integrate mental health equity specific content into every didactic and clinical learning environment.Ìý

The Mental Health Equity for All Lunch and Learn Series (MHEALLS) allows residents and fellows to engage in monthly mental health equity specific discussions with peers, faculty, and staff of the department. Topics have included gentrification, poverty, language access, the educational system, and suicide.Ìý

The Mental Health Equity Track (MHET) provides selected PGY2-PGY4 psychiatry residents with opportunities for a deeper dive into issues impacting mental health equity. The 3-year track provides:Ìý

  • Protected time to engage in mental health equity related activitiesÌýÌý
  • Didactic and experiential learning opportunities (group and independent)Ìý
  • Development of a project focused on an area of interest of the psychiatry residentÌý
  • Engagement in pathway development, clinician education, community collaborations, and efforts to improve healthcare access and treatment outcomes within the local system of careÌý

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Mental Health Equity Track ResidentsÌý

Angela Clayborne, MDÌý

PGY3Ìý
2023-2026Ìý
PsychiatryÌý

MHET thus far has been ​integral in helping me build my skills and confidence when it comes to networking, participating in research, and identifying the qualities I wish to have as a fully licensed psychiatrist. It has further developed my passion for ensuring access to high quality care for all populations and enhancing cultural compassion in my fellow mental health professionals. I truly feel this program is indispensable in ensuring the continuing success of ºÚÁÏÍø’s Psychiatry program in training culturally competent and well-rounded physicians.Ìý

Current project strives to help bridge the gap between Christian faith communities in rural areas and mental health, specifically African Methodist Episcopal (AME) churches in Johnston County, by tailoring the Y-MHFA training in an attempt to make it more culturally relevant to strengthen community leaders’ ability to assist youth in their mental health challenges.Ìý

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Rachel Harrison, MDÌý

PGY3Ìý
2023-2026Ìý
Psychiatry

The Mental Health Equity Track (MHET) in the Psychiatry residency program has been an invaluable opportunity to commit time and effort towards mental health equity projects. As part of the LGBTQ+ community, I have been able to use dedicated MHET time and funds to create a didactic session to introduce residents to basic mental health inequities faced by the gender diverse community and discuss the psychiatrist’s role in the process of patients seeking gender-affirming treatment.Ìý

Ultimately, I hope to bring this session to the department at large. Additionally, through MHET we are able to host the monthly Mental Health Equity for All Lunch and Learn Series (MHEALLS) which has been a wonderful way to get together with colleagues of many disciplines to discuss various topics related to mental health equity and consider how we practice and deliver mental healthcare to all communities in our state.
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Asif Khan, MDÌý

PGY4Ìý
2022-2025Ìý
PsychiatryÌý

Asif Khan’s primary Mental Health Equity project seeks to improve access to language interpreters and accessibility assistance across ºÚÁÏÍø Psychiatry. To achieve this goal, he has created an interdisciplinary team and a clinic-based workflow to collect baseline data and educate trainees, faculty, and staff to implement best practice recommendations. As the following steps to this first-of-a-kind initiative, Dr. Khan plans to collaborate closely with in-house interpreter services to enhance mental health interpretation training and explore quality improvement projects based on continuous data collection and informatics.ÌýÌý

In the long term, he hopes to collaborate across other departments and cross-sector. Notably, Dr. Khan founded Refugee Community Partnership, a local innovative non-profit that has been creating systems to connect refugee people to the resources they need and mobilize institutions to eliminate socioeconomic barriers since 2011.ÌýÌý

He has conceptualized a unique Language Navigators Program through his non-profit that has secured grants from the North Carolina Health Care Foundation, Z. Smith Reynolds Foundation, Kate B. Reynolds Foundation, among others, totaling more than $1.5 million in financial support to date.Ìý

 

Enioluwafe Ojo, MD, MPHÌý

PGY4ÌýÌý
2022-2025Ìý
PsychiatryÌý

The Mental Health Equity Track has changed my career and transformed my time in residency. Below are the highlights:ÌýÌý

  • Award APA Diversity Fellow: One of 20 residents selectedÌý
  • Lead Editor and cofounder of Special Edition of NCPA Quarterly Newsletter: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. August 2023Ìý
  • Developing mentorship skills: I have been working closely with four mentees for 18 months, including an MS4 who matched in one of their top choices, an MS3 who is leading an IRB research project, and an undergraduate who is completing a year-long research project in the Markovetz Lab.ÌýÌý
  • Recruitment: Attended multiple events to recruit future residents (including National Leadership Institute and APA conferences)Ìý
  • Research: Completing my first IRB as a residentÌý

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Katelyn Einloth, MDÌý

PGY2ÌýÌý
2024-2027Ìý
Psychiatry

The Mental Health Equity track was part of what attracted me to ºÚÁÏÍø when I was applying to residency programs. My interests in health equity are vast, and I am particularly passionate about working with patients who are unhoused and / or have been incarcerated. Through the Mental Health Equity Track, I have become involved with ºÚÁÏÍø’s Formerly Incarcerated Transition (FIT) Program, which provides physical and mental healthcare to people who have recently been released from incarceration. I am currently working with my mentor, Dr. Ted Zarzar, to develop a project that allows patients to share their lived experiences while exploring their unique mental healthcare wants and needs. Ultimately, I hope to share what I have learned with my co-residents so that we can effectively treat formerly-incarcerated patients with consideration and compassion.