{"id":15055,"date":"2024-08-27T16:52:46","date_gmt":"2024-08-27T20:52:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/psych\/?page_id=15055"},"modified":"2024-10-23T11:18:20","modified_gmt":"2024-10-23T15:18:20","slug":"education","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.med.unc.edu\/psych\/centers-and-programs\/mental-health-equity-program\/education\/","title":{"rendered":"Education"},"content":{"rendered":"
Our team provides mental health equity specific education to psychiatry residents throughout the four years of general training.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The <\/span>Mental Health Equity Curriculum <\/span><\/b>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.\u00a0 In addition, teaching faculty are encouraged to integrate mental health equity specific content into every didactic and clinical learning environment.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 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.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n The <\/span>Mental Health Equity Track (MHET) <\/span><\/b>provides selected PGY2-PGY4 psychiatry residents with opportunities for a deeper dive into issues impacting mental health equity. The 3-year track provides:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Angela Clayborne, MD<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n PGY3<\/span>\u00a0<\/span> MHET thus far has been \u200bintegral 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 黑料网’s Psychiatry program in training culturally competent and well-rounded physicians.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 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.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n PGY3<\/span>\u00a0<\/span> 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.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 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.<\/span> PGY4<\/span>\u00a0<\/span> Asif Khan\u2019s primary Mental Health Equity project seeks to improve access to language interpreters and accessibility assistance across 黑料网 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.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 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.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n 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.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n PGY4\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span> The Mental Health Equity Track has changed my career and transformed my time in residency. Below are the highlights:\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n PGY2\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span> The Mental Health Equity track was part of what attracted me to 黑料网 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 黑料网\u2019s 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.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" General Psychiatry Residency Program Our team provides mental health equity specific education to psychiatry residents throughout the four years of general training.\u00a0\u00a0 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 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":103208,"featured_media":0,"parent":13497,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"layout":"","cellInformation":"","apiCallInformation":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-15055","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","odd"],"pp_force_visibility":null,"pp_subpost_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_force_visibility":null,"pp_inherited_subpost_visibility":null,"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n
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Mental Health Equity Track Residents<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n
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\n2023-2026<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\nPsychiatry<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nRachel Harrison, MD<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n2023-2026<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\nPsychiatry<\/span><\/p>\n
\n\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nAsif Khan, MD<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n2022-2025<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\nPsychiatry<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nEnioluwafe Ojo, MD, MPH<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
\n2022-2025<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\nPsychiatry<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n\n
Katelyn Einloth<\/span><\/b>, MD\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n
\n2024-2027<\/span>\u00a0<\/span>
\nPsychiatry<\/span><\/p>\n