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How I navigate the supervisor-supervisee relationship as a Black female resident, activist, and scholar in anti-Black racism—and how a "temperature check" can help.

Temperature Check

is a PGY1 in psychiatry at Upstate Medical University. The views expressed in this article do not necessarily represent the views of his institution.

What should residency programs be doing to address current traumas? 

Three Proposals for Trauma-Sensitive Residency Programs 

Finding a program that is a good fit while LGBTQ+ may be more difficult than it seems…

Multitude of Selves: Applying to Residencies as an LGBTQ+ Medical Student

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Beyond earning a medical degree, completing residency, and obtaining board certification and licensure, a psychiatrist's career grows to be illustrious with wisdom, curiosity, intellect, aesthetic sensitivity, compassion, empathy, generosity, and more.

10 Meditations on a Virtuous Career 

is an outpatient psychiatrist at Prisma Health-Upstate and clinical associate professor at the University of South Carolina School of Medicine, Greenville. He served on the American Psychiatric Association’s Task Force to Address Structural Racism Throughout Psychiatry, and he currently serves as the Diversity and Inclusion section editor and advisory board member for

Catharsis expressed in a pen, it was a tool to get through the hard times, even medical school.

Bard Self Disclosure

My life pasted on his wall to analyze, a flash of insight came to me: Training had begun.

Psychiatric Residency Interview

is associate professor of psychiatry at the University of Pittsburgh and the medical director of the Southside Acute Partial and IOP Program part of Western Behavioral Health/UPMC, in Pittsburgh, PA.

is attending psychiatrist and assistant program director for the Post Pediatric Portal Program at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.

The authors explore the impact of structural racism on psychiatry trainees and the patients they care for (and what can be done about it).

Why Psychiatry Training Must Include Discussions on Structural Racism

Unable to spend adequate time with patients, residents are not learning to function as doctors, but merely as technicians for the human body. 

Beneath the Wheel: A Resident Reflects on Burnout and Professional Identity 

Psychiatric emergencies occur when a patient is a danger to self, to others, or is so psychiatrically impaired the patient cannot meet their own basic needs. How do such emergencies manifest?

Infographic: Never a Dull Moment in Emergency Psychiatry

As typically happens in the aftermath of suicide—years or even decades later—we wonder what we could have said or should have seen.

Residents Corner