Psychiatry Residents Need More Training in LGBT Issues, Survey Finds
A new study finds that psychiatry residents training in the US is failing to teach LGBT cultural competence.
A recent study, published in
the Journal of Gay & Lesbian Mental Health, underlines the importance of LGBT patient exposure and formal education on LGBT issues in US psychiatry training. The results of a national survey of psychiatry resident’s LGBT cultural competency highlight significant gaps between best practices and the current state of training.
“Since the LGBT population faces significant rates of mental health disparities, psychiatry residents are in important roles as both learners and mental health providers to this population,” the author, Dustin Nowaskie from the Department of Psychiatry at Indiana University School of Medicine, writes. “This study is the first known to examine and characterize psychiatry residents’ involvement and education in LGBT healthcare.”