Two faculty in the Yale Department of Psychiatry have been chosen to receive the Nancy C.A. Roeske, MD, Certificate of Recognition for Excellence in Medical Student Education from the American Psychiatric Association (APA).
Carmen Black, MD, assistant professor of psychiatry, and Cynthia D. Conrad, MD, PhD, clinical instructor in psychiatry, are the 2023-2024 recipients of the award at Yale.
The award was established in honor of Nancy C.A. Roeske, MD, and serves as a tribute to her unique and creative contributions to psychiatric education. It is awarded to APA members who have made outstanding and sustaining contributions to medical student education.
Black is director of Social Justice and Health Equity Education in the Yale Department of Psychiatry and a Yale School of Medicine Clinical Skills Lead, where she teaches pre-clerkship medical students about patient interviewing and the physical exam. She is leading the medical school in a medical education grant about removing carceral practice within medical education and clinical practice. In this capacity she teaches a core clerkship lecture about historically informed, evidence-based principles supporting the de-policing of hospital medicine.
Conrad has served as a psychiatric residency training director and conducted case conferences on complex patients with the Connecticut Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services. She tutors medical students during their psychiatric clerkship, stressing the value of biopsychosocial approach to patient care. She assists her students in oral and written case presentations, differential diagnostics, treatment, and disposition planning.