Psychiatry Residency Spokane fully supports the American psychiatric Association Position Statement on Diversity and Inclusion in the Physician Workforce. Our program is developing clinical programs and systems by which we can recruit and retain a diverse and inclusive workforce, to include residents, faculty and staff.
Holistic Review
We intentionally select people who demonstrate significant distance travelled, are from under represented minorities in medicine, are first generation college students, com from rural, underserved areas or countries, and who have faced adversity. This year we are using the University of Minnesota Situational Judgment Test (SJT) to enhance holistic review of applicants. The SJT is a validated tool that screens for people skills and provides us with new data points and insights currently unavailable. This include non-academic metrics to compliment existing academic metrics. The SJT supports holistic selection decisions that may help increase gender, racial, and ethnic diversity in the interview pool.
Thalamus
This year we are partnering with Thalamus (thalamusgme.com), an interview season management program, to enable holistic and blinded review mode in applicant screening. This will allow us to track data across interview seasons to measure trends and reduce bias.
We know that we can't know whether our strategies are successful without first collecting baseline data, so that is where we started in 2019. For the past few years we have been collecting data about the demographics of our residents, staff and faculty, and tracking improvement in diversity over time.
Like many programs across the country, we are in the early stages of identifying system based solutions to addressing issues of retention of physicians from diverse backgrounds. We encourage you to ask current residents and faculty about their experiences working both in the program, and for Providence as the larger hospital sponsoring institution.
DEI Didactic thread that includes the following topics:
Cultural Bound Syndromes
Providence and STHC GME includes a new Diversity Equity and Inclusion subcommittee, of which Dr Keeble is co-chair. Representation includes residents from every GME program. To increase collaboration between the institution and the GME programs, there is bidirectional representation of members who sit on both the GME DEI subcommittee and the Providence DEI committee.
Providence Representatives:
Resident Representatives:
Faculty Representatives:
