Handbook of Career Development in Academic Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences

Laura Weiss Roberts, M.D., M.A., is Katharine Dexter McCormick and Stanley McCormick Memorial Professor and Chair in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, California.Donald M. Hilty, M.D., is Chief of Psychiatry and Addiction Medicine and Program Director of Psychiatry Residency Training at Kaweah Delta Medical Center, Visalia; Affiliate of University of California, Irvine; and Professor of Psychiatry, Keck School of Medicine at University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California.

• Contributors. Preface. Acknowledgements. Part I: Getting Started… Approaching Your Academic Career. Strategies for Academically Oriented Residents in Psychiatry. Strategies for Faculty Who Self-Identify as Belonging to Underrepresented Groups. Strategies for Psychologists and Other Health Professionals. Strategies for Those with Non-Traditional Paths to Academic Psychiatry. Part II: Getting There… Preparing Your Curriculum Vitae. Interviewing for an Academic Position. Evaluating Your Contract/Letter of Offer. Part III: Once You Are There… Managing Your Time. Reading and Preparing a Basic Budget. Aligning Your Goals With Those of Colleagues, the Department, and the Institution. Understanding and Preparing for the Process of Academic Promotion. Negotiating with the Department Chair. Developing Your Ethics Skills. Part IV: Becoming an Educator… Giving Feedback. Clinical Supervision. Teaching and Helping Others to Learn. Teaching in Small Group Settings. Test Questions and Constructing Assessments. Writing and Reading Letters of Recommendation. Part V: Developing Your Academic Skills… Publishing a Manuscript. Serving as a Manuscript Reviewer. Approaching Your First Grant Application and the Grant Review Process. Approaching Research, Evaluation, and Continuous Quality Improvement Projects. Part VI: Continuing to Grow Professionally… Approaching Certification and Maintenance of Certification. Being a Good Mentor and Colleague. Networking. Leadership in Child Psychiatry: Principles, Role Models, and Challenges. Taking Care of Yourself. Fostering a Positive Early Career Academic Environment.

Reviews 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, 8/1/2006After 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