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 […]
Department news | September 30, 2017
The Integrated Care Training Program is currently accepting applications for a new Community-Based Integrated Care Fellowship. The fellowship, modeled after employed MBA programs, is a CME-accredited, year-long training program designed for psychiatric providers, including psychiatrists and psychiatric ARNPs and PAs, who are seeking additional training to deliver integrated care in community-based settings. The program is […]
Department news | September 30, 2017
Around 20% of resident physicians meet criteria for major depressive disorder, while more than 50% meet criteria for burnout. To begin to address these challenges, Matthew MacKinnon, MD (PGY-3) and co-investigator Lionel Perez, MD (PGY-2) are leading a multistage study called the University of Washington Resident Physician Well-Being Initiative (UW WBI). Stage one is a biannual longitudinal observational survey […]
Department news | May 31, 2017
Rashad Hardaway, MD, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Fellow, and Seon Kum, MD, a 2016 graduate of our residency program, have papers that will be published in a forthcoming special issue of the Journal of Gay and Lesbian Mental Health on LGBTQ People of Color. The special issue is being guest edited by Vivek Datta, MD, MPH, a […]
