Please follow the CV formatting guidance provided by BioMed Faculty Administration. If you choose to summarize DEI work in a designated section of the CV, we suggest including it after the “Membership in Societies” section and before the “Publications List” section on your CV.
Below are two examples of what these designated DEI sections might look like:
COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, INCLUSION, JUSTICE & ANTI-RACISM
- Clinical work with vulnerable and marginalized populations. Deliver PTSD treatment to patients
who have experienced racial trauma and discrimination.
- Publications on clinical and measurement issues affecting underrepresented racial minorities in
the service improving access to mental health care.
- Incorporation of scholarly literature in supervision addressing limitations of Acceptance and
Commitment Therapy (ACT) in collectivistic cultures, microaggressions in therapy, and
ADDRESSING and MECA models.
COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION
• As co-leader in the PGY2 Psychotherapy didactic series, I helped lead a section on “Intersectionality in Psychotherapy.” This section encourages residents to reflect on their own racial identity development and the ways their identities influence their interactions with patients, taking the view that all therapist-patient interactions are co-created phenomena.
• As co-leader in the PGY3 Psychodynamic Psychotherapy didactic series, I co-led a review of the entire curriculum with a focus on incorporating more diverse perspectives in readings and clinical material. We were particularly guided by the work of Dr. Pratyusha Tummala-Narra on decolonizing psychoanalytic theory.
• As co-leader and co-developer of our new residency-wide curriculum “Tolerating Uncertainty in Psychiatry,” I have led experiential learning sessions that have explored issues of race, class, and power differentials both in clinical work and in training and supervision. The aim of these sessions is to help residents identify unconscious bias and how feelings of shame and uncertainty can affect clinical encounters as well as experiences in supervision.
• As an assistant director of psychotherapy training, I co-lead monthly meetings open to all psychotherapy supervisors. Through these meetings, we have integrated concepts of unconscious bias, DEI, and power imbalance into the professional development of our program’s psychotherapy supervisors. In particular, when discussing patients who are labelled “difficult-to-engage,” we have worked to broaden supervisors’ understanding of “what patients are appropriate for the clinic,” and to examine the role of unconscious bias in the framing of this question.