The Asian and Asian-American physician in a standard psychiatric
residency is faced with discrimination at several levels, as well as
special problems of professional role confusion and personal identity, all
of which can create barriers to professional development and productivity.
Further, most standard psychiatric residencies do not include teaching or
supervision specific to treating Asian patients. The author proposes the
establishment of a specialized program, focusing on ethnic minority groups,
within a general psychiatric residency; he discusses specific features of
such a program. This approach may help to alleviate the problem of
inadequate resources for handling the mental health problems of
Asian-Americans and underutilization of mental health resources by this
group.Abstract Teaser