Department news | May 31, 2018
Members of our paid and clinical faculty from Seattle and the WWAMI region gathered for a day-long education conference which included presentations on teaching methods, giving feedback, bias in medical education, digital teaching resources, evidence-based psychotherapy supervision, and evaluating medical students and psychiatry and psychology residents. The program included opportunities to meet other Psychiatry teaching […]
Department news | April 30, 2018
American Psychiatric Association (APA) and American Psychiatric Association Foundation (APAF) Fellowships provide psychiatry residents the experiential learning, training and professional development they need to be leaders in the field of psychiatry. The fellowship programs offer opportunities to work with Congress on health policy, conduct research, expand access to care to minority and underserved populations, and […]
Department news | April 30, 2018
We are excited to announce that our department and the Billings Clinic in Billings, Montana are partnering to develop a new Psychiatry Residency Montana Track. This residency track will be similar to our existing Idaho Track, with residents completing the first two years of training in Seattle and the last two years in Montana. The goals […]
Department news | March 31, 2018
The mission of the Psychology Internship Program’s Diversity Advancement Committee (DAC) is to promote the cultural diversity training during the Psychology Resident year. The DAC sponsors the annual Shigetomi Memorial Lecture in honor of Carol Shigetomi, a former Psychology Resident from the class of 1982-1983. Carol tragically died during a hiking accident in Oregon shortly after […]
Department news | March 31, 2018
The first in-person meeting for our new Community Based Integrated Care Fellowship was held earlier this month at Talaris Conference Center. Fourteen fellows from nine counties in Washington are participating in this year-long fellowship modeled after an executive MBA program. The fellowship focuses on increasing access to effective mental health care by teaching psychiatric providers to leverage […]
Department news | February 28, 2018
Psych Essentials is a medical education podcast developed and hosted by UW Psychiatry PGY3 residents Lindsay Lebin, MD, and James Koved, MD. The podcast is aimed at medical students and allied health professionals (nursing, occupational therapy, social work trainees) on their psychiatry rotations. Based on free and open access medical education (FOAM) principles, Psych Essentials covers core […]
Department news | December 31, 2017
All Patients Safe: Suicide Prevention for Medical Professionals, an online training that fulfills the new state law requiring health professionals to complete a one-time training in suicide assessment, treatment, and management, had a tremendously successful launch in mid-November. Nearly 750 providers signed up in the first month and 175 people have completed the training thus […]
Department news | December 31, 2017
A team consisting of Jennifer Piel, MD, JD, Sarah Kopelovich, PhD, Kate Michaelsen, MD, Deborah Cowley, MD, and project manager Susan Reynolds completed and submitted to the Washington State legislature a superb analysis and proposal for high-quality forensic teaching services. In collaboration with Western State Hospital (WSH), Department of Social and Health Services, and the Office of Forensic Mental Health Services, the proposal […]
Department news | October 31, 2017
The School Mental Health Assessment, Research and Training (SMART) Center received funding from the U.S. Department of Education’s Institute of Education Sciences (IES) for a new, two year Postdoctoral Research Training Program in School Mental Health. The focus of the new fellowship is to prepare education researchers to conduct relevant, high-quality research focused on the […]
Department news | October 31, 2017
The mental health workforce in the United States has long faced a disproportionate lack of diversity compared to the patients it treats. According to a 2014 study, 21% of psychiatrists identify as being from a racial or ethnic minority group compared to 37% of Americans who identified as nonwhite in the 2012 census. A lack of […]
