Description
Book SynopsisWorking in academic psychiatry is fulfilling, replete with extraordinary colleagues and inspiring opportunities for meaningful work and professional growth. Even so, getting started in an academic career can be a bit unsettling. After years of education, a new faculty member may feel unprepared for the everyday duties associated with a different academic role—negotiating with the chair, writing letters of recommendation for students, participating on committees with colleagues, and balancing personal and professional life.
The Handbook of Career Development in Academic Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Second Edition, provides real-world advice with compassion. Readers will find just what they need when they need it: step-by-step guidance to approaching the tasks and challenges that face them, questions to discuss with mentors and colleagues, and professionally vetted online career development resources. Readers will also hear the voice of sympathetic, experienced academic clinicians who share how best to navigate challenging situations encountered in academic settings. Each chapter features:
• Smart Strategies: A list of specific actions readers can take to reach their professional goals
• Questions to Discuss with a Mentor or a Colleague: A list of questions that simplifies and normalizes the process of soliciting career advice and assistance
• Additional Resources: A collection of the most recent and innovative websites, books, and articles that will assist readers on their career path, even after they've finished reading the book
Readers who seek out the advice in this book will find that they are better equipped to forge their academic careers—and flourish.
Trade ReviewReviews for the first edition:
This is an amazingly wonderful book that addresses so many pivotal points towards a successful career in academic psychiatry. Throughout all the major developmental steps in thinking about, beginning and nurturing an academic position, Roberts and Hilty, et al bring us the information that is not taught in traditional medical training, and then some. This terrific book will help save time and make the trip through academia a lot easier and probably a lot more fun!—Michelle B. Riba, M.D., M.S., Professor of Psychiatry, University of Michigan
[The editors] have compiled a collection of concise, informative, and highly relevant chapters, authored by an impressive group of largely psychiatric scientists, scholars, and administrators. The book provides the reader with an invaluable manual for survival and advance ment as faculty in academic health centers, and although focused on psychiatrists, the book is applicable to psychologists and other behavioral scientists as well. . . . Every training director (psychiatry and psychology) should make this available to his or her graduates. Senior faculty members, especially senior psychologists, would be well advised to familiarize themselves with the knowledgeable and insightful observations provided in this volume.—PsycCRITIQUES, 8/1/2006
After reading [Handbook of Career Development in Academic Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences], many would probably agree that it should have been around years ago. It is filled with practical information, is well organized, and covers almost all major issues in career development in academic psychiatry. I would recommend it to every starting academician and to every resident contemplating an academic career. It should also belong to the library of every academic department of psychiatry (and perhaps other disciplines) and school of medicine, since it could serve as a guiding text in faculty development seminars and courses.—American Journal of Psychiatry, 8/1/2006
Table of ContentsContributors
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Getting Started
Chapter 1. Approaching Your Academic Career
Chapter 2. Strategies for Academically Oriented Residents in Psychiatry
Chapter 3. Strategies for Faculty Who Self-Identify as Belonging to Underrepresented Groups
Chapter 4. Strategies for Psychologists and Other Health Professionals
Chapter 5. Strategies for Those With Nontraditional Paths to Academic Psychiatry
Part II: Getting There
Chapter 6. Preparing Your Curriculum Vitae
Chapter 7. Interviewing for an Academic Position
Chapter 8. Evaluating Your Contract or Letter of Offer
Part III: Once You Are There
Chapter 9. Managing Your Time
Chapter 10. Reading and Preparing a Basic Budget
Chapter 11. Aligning Your Goals With Those of Colleagues, the Department, and the Institution
Chapter 12. Understanding and Preparing for the Process of Academic Promotion
Chapter 13. Negotiating with the Department Chair
Chapter 14. Developing Your Ethics Skills
Part IV: Becoming an Educator
Chapter 15. Giving Feedback
Chapter 16. Clinical Supervision
Chapter 17. Teaching and Helping Others to Learn
Chapter 18. Teaching in Small Group Settings
Chapter 19. Writing Test Questions and Constructing Assessments
Chapter 20. Writing and Reading Letters of Recommendation
Part V: Developing Your Academic Skills
Chapter 21. Publishing a Manuscript
Chapter 22. Serving as a Manuscript Reviewer
Chapter 23. Approaching Your First Grant Application and the Grant Review Process
Chapter 24. Approaching Research, Evaluation, and Continuous Quality Improvement Projects
Part VI: Continuing to Grow Professionally
Chapter 25. Approaching Certification and Maintenance of Certification
Chapter 26. Being a Good Mentor and Colleague
Chapter 27. Networking
Chapter 28. Leadership in Psychiatry: Principles, Role Models, and Challenges in Child Psychiatry
Chapter 29. Taking Care of Yourself
Chapter 30. Fostering a Positive Early Career Academic Environment
Index
