Yale Residency Program News

The Yale Department of Psychiatry on March 17 announced its 2023 Match Class. The new residents join the department from 18 medical schools and hail from hometowns within nine states and seven countries.

Psychiatric News recently wrote about a paper co-written by Nientara Anderson, MD, MHS, third-year resident, with findings that suggest internal medicine residents from minoritized racial and ethnic groups may experience bias in assessments. Anderson's paper was published in JAMA Network Open.

Andy Wen, MD, MPH, a second-year resident, is first author of a study in Health & Justice that expands research on disproportionate contact in the pretrial detention setting to Hispanic/Latinx, Indigenous, and Asian youth.

Julio Nunes, MD, first-year resident, is first author of a paper in JAMIA Open that analyzes the design values of a web-based shared decision-making tool created to better inform atrial fibrillation patients about anticoagulation.

Sandhira Wijayaratne, MD, third-year resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, writes in Everyday Health about a better approach to setting New Year's goals.

Oral anticoagulation (OAC) reduces stroke and disability in atrial fibrillation (AF) but is underutilized. Researchers, including Julio Nunes, MD, first-year resident, evaluated the effects of a novel patient‐clinician shared decision‐making (SDM) tool in reducing OAC patient's decisional conflict as compared to usual care.

"My brother has a severe form of autism and it wasn't always easy for me to understand his condition growing up but, through my parents, I learned how to fight for him—and I always will," writes Amanda Calhoun, MD, MPH, resident in the Department of Psychiatry in a new piece for Parents.

Claire Gibson, MD, fourth-year resident in the Yale Department of Psychiatry, and Emma Lo, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, are co-authors of a paper in Psychiatric Services that assesses the delivery of buprenorphine to people who face homelessness.

Nientara Anderson, MD, MHS, third-year resident, is co-author of a paper in Journal of General Internal Medicine that evaluates how recent changes to longstanding historical portraiture in Yale School of Medicine's Sterling Hall of Medicine affected students’ reflections on being in that space.