Dr. Kathleen Isaac: Mental Health and Medical Residents, Part 1

<div class="gs"> <div class=""> <div id=":av1" class="ii gt"> <div id=":av0" class="a3s aiL"> <div dir="ltr"> <div class="gmail_default"> <p class="MsoNormal">Dr. Kathleen <span class="il">Isaac</span> is a licensed Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Assistant Professor at NYU Langone Health. As a Haitian-American, cis-gender female, she directs the Medical Student and House Staff Mental Health program, which provides individual, couples, and group psychotherapy to medical students, residents, and fellows. She also has a part-time private practice focused on serving BIPOC and LGBTQ+ clients with integrative treatment approaches, where she specializes in trauma, health psychology, and cultural issues. Dr. <span class="il">Isaac</span> also is an adjunct lecturer in the City College of New York’s doctoral program in clinical psychology where she teaches an advanced practicum on intersectional therapy and a Group Psychotherapy course. She has been featured on multiple media platforms, including NBC and the New York Times. Recently, she has published in the journal <em>Psychiatry Annals </em>and in a book chapter dealing with <em>Her Clients’ Racial Identity Development During the Pandemic and the Black Lives Matter Movement.</em></p> </div> </div> <div class="yj6qo">The following items were discussed in Part 1: regarding how she developed an interest in working with medical residents; how diversity is defined at NYU; why it is essential for the health workforce to be diverse from the perspective of both the clinicians and the patients whom they treat; kinds of structural barriers of an institutional nature within the learning environment that have the capability to hinder workforce diversity; and preparing residents at the beginning of their residency to deal with the kinds of hardship that are likely to develop during the early months of training.</div> <div class="adL"> </div> </div> </div> <div class="hi"> </div> </div> </div> <p> </p> <p> </p>