Resident Distinction Pathway

The Global Mental Health Resident Distinction Track aims to provide psychiatry residents with the skills to understand mental health disparities and serve as advocates for patient/population health both domestically and abroad. Through a combination of Global Mental Health seminar series, mentorship, and scholarly endeavors, Yale residents will be informed leaders in ethical and professional mental healthcare.

Our graduates will develop core competencies in leadership, advocacy, ethics, and social justice by:

• Exploring definitions and building meaningful language surrounding the practice of global mental health
• Learning scalable, cost-effective, and sustainable methods to issues impacting global mental health
• Understanding population health and factors in disparities including socioeconomic, race, ethnicity, and geography (urban vs rural and Global North vs Global South) and their intersectionality
• Demonstrate knowledge of evidence-based medicine and systems-based practice concerns in resource limited domestic and international settings

The Yale Global Mental Health Distinction Track is one of the four Distinction Tracks residents may participate in.

Requirements for the Yale Global Mental Health Distinction Pathway are divided into three categories:

• Clinical or academic opportunity
• Education including monthly seminars and quarterly discussion sessions
• Scholarly project

Clinical or academic opportunities

• Street Psychiatry with Emma Lo
• Grant Per Diem/VACT Homeless Programs with Theddeus Iheanacho
• Refugee Care with Aniyizhai Annamalai
• Hispanic Clinic with Michelle Silva
• Psychosis research in low-resource settings and under-represented populations with Rajiv Radhakrishnan
• Mental health in the Muslim population with Hamada Altalib
• HAPPINESS Project with Theddeus Iheanacho
• Substance use disorders, related HIV problems, drug use policy, pain research with Marek Chawarski

Education

• Monthly Seminar Series.
• Quarterly discussion sessions: bringing together trainees and faculty members around one topic.

Scholarship

• Participating residents develop mentored, funded scholarly project (clinical, research, education) in any broad aspect of global mental health activities leading to a capstone product (poster or oral presentation or publication)
• During the journal club/discussion sessions, residents present their ongoing projects, receiving feedback and facilitating ideas to enhance their projects.