This is a virtual event.
The Zoom link will be provided prior to the session.

This activity is free of charge 

Activity Description

"I don’t want to offend.” “How do I even ask that?” are thoughts many clinicians have as they navigate how to ask difficult questions of patients in a charged national environment. Identities and their intersections have a profound impact on health. How do we lower our discomfort as clinicians in asking about identities and get to the work of more deeply understanding our patients and more effectively providing treatment? Drawing on lessons from psychiatry and psychotherapy, Dr. Cecil R. Webster, Jr., MD will discuss race, gender and sexual identities, their influence on clinical interactions, and how caregivers can effectively recognize, acknowledge and honor patient identities while managing our own discomfort to provide the most effective and appropriate treatment possible.

Learning Objectives:

Upon completion of this activity, participants will be able to: 

1. Define what is meant by identities and explain how they influence our clinical interactions.
2. Describe the historical role and place of race/ethnicity in psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and psychiatry and their influence on present-day medical and behavioral health care.
3. Recognize and elicit race and other identity themes in our clinical spaces.

Target Audience

This activity is intended for Mass General Brigham network clinician teams working primarily in primary care. The audience would include, physicians, nurses, social workers and other embedded clinicians and supporting roles engaged in providing care or resources for patients.

Agenda

• Welcome – Course Director, Trina Chang, MD, MPH – 2 minutes
• Introduction of Cecil R. Webster, Jr., MD, Trina Chang, MD, MPH – 1 minute
• Presentation: How to Have Difficult Conversations in 2021: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in Clinical Spaces – 45 minutes
• Q&A – 10 minutes
• Upcoming session – Supporting ‘All’ Caregivers and Providers: Considerations from a Diversity Equity and Inclusion Lens and What COVID-19 in an Underserved Community Taught Us About Providing Equitable Care and Ourselves – Teodolinda Pique, PsyD and Mary Lyons Hunter, PsyD – Trina Chang, MD, MPH – 2 minutes
• Adjourn

Faculty

Trina E. Chang, MD, MPH - Course Director
Associate Medical Director,
Behavioral Health Integration,
Quality and Patient Experience,
Mass General Brigham

Cecil R. Webster Jr., MD is a child and adolescent, and adult psychiatrist in private practice in Boston, MA and a Lecturer in Psychiatry at McLean Hospital and Harvard Medical School. He has a small consulting practice working with schools and universities such as MIT, to develop constructive responses to racial animus, form gender and sexual identity-inclusive policy, and transform difficult moments into important conversations. He serves a member of the Board of Editors for the Psychoanalytic Study of the Child and is a candidate in adult and child psychoanalysis at the Boston Psychoanalytic Society & Institute where he also serves on the Board of Trustees.

Accreditation

Mass General Brigham is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education to provide continuing medical education for physicians.

Mass General Brigham designates this live activity for a maximum of 1 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit^TM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.

Nursing

This program meets the requirements of the Massachusetts Board of Registration in Nursing at 244 CMR 5.00 for 1.2 contact hours of nursing continuing education credit. Advance practice nurses, please note: Educational activities which meet the requirements of the ACCME (such as this activity) count towards 50% of the nursing requirement for ANCC accreditation.

Social Work

Number of Credit Hours: 1.0

NASW Authorization Number:  D 90465

Valid for 2 years from date of session.

Psychologists

McLean Hospital is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. McLean Hospital maintains responsibility for this program and its content. Participants meeting requirements will receive 1.0 CE credit

Licensed Mental Health Counselors

McLean Hospital has been approved by NBCC as an Approved Continuing Education Provider, ACEP No. 6085. Programs that do not qualify for NBCC credit are clearly identified. McLean Hospital is solely responsible for all aspects of the programs. This offering meets the requirements for up to 1.0 NBCC hour.