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Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

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This chapter will review diversity, inclusion, equity, and the implementation of these constructs for training programs, faculty recruitment, and psychiatric education in order to prepare future psychiatrists to be culturally competent. In addition, the chapter will identify the importance of building allyship among trainees, culturally competent supervision for trainees, and an understanding regarding cultural humility within psychiatry training.

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  1. University of Illinois, Rockford Campus, Rosecrance Griffin Williamson Campus, Rockford, IL, USA

    Adrienne Adams

  2. University of Texas Health San Antonio Department of Psychiatry, San Antonio, TX, USA

    Brigitte Bailey

  3. University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA

    Auralyd Padilla Candelario

  4. Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program, Montefiore Hospital/Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA

    Ana R. Ozdoba

  5. Rosecrance Health Network, INC, Cambridge, WI, USA

    Thomas Wright

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Adams, A., Bailey, B., Candelario, A.P., Ozdoba, A.R., Wright, T. (2022). Promoting Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. In: Macaluso, M., Houston, L.J., Kinzie, J.M., Cowley, D.S. (eds) Graduate Medical Education in Psychiatry. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-00836-8_7

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