A training guideline of cultural competence for child and adolescent psychiatric residencies

The author proposes a curriculum guideline of cultural competence for child and adolescent psychiatric residencies, including specific educational objectives, didactic topics and suggested references. These guidelines can be easily incorporated into the existing training curriculum and stress ethnogeneric and developmental perspectives, which can be expanded further to include ethnospecific issues depending on the needs of each training program and trainee.

The ethnic/minority focus unit as a training site in transcultural psychiatry

The ethnic/minority psychiatric inpatient units (i.e., focus units) at the University of California, San Francisco, train residents in transcultural psychiatry. This article describes the history, goals, and educational program that comprise this unique training experience. Two cases from the Asian Focus Unit illustrate how residents learn trans-cultural psychiatry during interactions with ethnic Asian patients and staff. Educational perspectives and current program evaluation are discussed.

Teaching transcultural psychiatry

The ethnic diversity of patients in most training centers requires that attention be given to cultural issues affecting the psychiatric presentation and treatment of patients from different backgrounds. This paper describes programs in transcultural psychiatry for medical students, residents, and fellows that have been implemented and refined at UCLA over the past six years. Suggestions are offered for the development of such programs elsewhere.