How I Learned to Speak Up About Anti-Asian Racism.

As a psychiatry residency program director of Asian descent at a historically Black institution, I provided forums for my majority-Black residents to process their feelings about the racial turmoil of the past couple of years. At the same time, I was downplaying anti-Asian racism. This tendency slowed my response to the recent rise of anti-Asian violence and how it affected my Asian residents and others.

Integrating Primary Care Into Assertive Community Treatment.

Objective: This program evaluation examined integration of primary care nurse practitioners into assertive community treatment (ACT).

Methods: From January to June 2019, primary care nurse practitioners in a postgraduate fellowship program were assigned to five ACT teams (N=305 participants). Focus groups explored staff members' and participants' experiences.

Patient Factors Associated with Extended Length of Stay in the Psychiatric Inpatient Units of a Large Urban County Hospital.

This case-control study identified patient-specific factors associated with the longest psychiatric inpatient lengths of stay (LOS) at a large urban county hospital. Subjects with LOS ≥ 60 days comprised the extended LOS (ELOS) case cohort. An equally-sized control cohort consisted of a random sample of inpatients with LOS ≤ 30 days.

Developing a novel Poverty in Healthcare curriculum for medical students at the University of Michigan Medical School.

Nearly 90 million Americans live below 200% of the federal poverty threshold. The links between lower socioeconomic status and poor health are clear, and all physicians face the resulting challenges in patient care. Current medical school curricula do not adequately prepare students to address this issue despite recommendations from the Association of American Medical Colleges and the Institute of Medicine.