@article{62ff124fbc3741fe966e125f73cfe201,
title = "A Virtual Summer Research and Mentorship Program for Underrepresented in Medicine (URiM) Medical Students in Psychiatry",
author = "Masaki, {Charles O.} and Lucy Ogbu-Nwobodo and Santos, {Linda Herrera} and Faisel, {Lena B.} and Anisha Lewis and Aldwin Soumare and Nadia Quijije and Ross, {Rachel A.}",
note = "Funding Information: Funding for the program, as well as COM, NQ, and RR, was provided by an administrative grant to R25 MH094612. RR also receives funding support from DK118201-01A1. The authors wish to thank the MGH/McLean Physician Scientist Training Program in Psychiatry, as well as the faculty who provided mentorship and support through the summer program and in consideration of evaluating its outcomes. Funding Information: There is a dearth of physicians from underrepresented in medicine (URiM) backgrounds, defined by the Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) as “those racial and ethnic populations that are underrepresented in the medical profession relative to their numbers in the general population” []. To address the need for racially diverse clinician-researchers in the biomedical sphere, including in psychiatry, there has been renewed attention to embedding targeted mentorship into research programming, which has been shown to lead to increased advancement of URiM trainees []. Here we describe the design and preliminary qualitative outcomes of a virtual summer program offered by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH)/McLean Hospital. This 8-week program aimed to expose URiM students interested in psychiatry to academic research. It was unique within the institution as it was focused on the topic of psychiatric research. It was structured around three components: mentored research, career mentorship, and community networking. It was funded by a $12,000 administrative supplement offered by the NIH to the R25-funded research training program associated to the MGH/McLean adult psychiatry residency training program. ",
year = "2022",
month = aug,
doi = "10.1007/s40596-022-01631-2",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "46",
pages = "537--539",
journal = "Academic Psychiatry",
issn = "1042-9670",
publisher = "American Psychiatric Publishing Inc.",
number = "4",
}
