Handbook of career development in academic psychiatry and behavioral sciences / edited by Laura Weiss Roberts, Donald M. Hilty.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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 nontraditional paths to academic psychiatry -- Preparing your curriculum vitae -- Interviewing for an academic position -- Evaluating your contract or letter of offer -- Managing your time -- Reading and preparing a basic budget -- Aligning your goals with those of colleagues, the department, and the institutions -- Understanding and preparing for the process of academic promotion -- Negotiating with the department chair -- Developing your ethics skills -- Giving feedback -- Clinical supervision -- Teaching and helping others learn -- Teaching in small group settings -- Writing test questions and constructing assessments -- Writing and reading letters of recommendation -- 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 -- Approaching certification and maintenance of certification -- Being a good mentor and colleague -- Networking -- Leadership in psychiatry -- Taking care of yourself -- Fostering a positive early-career academic environment.

With real-world advice from professionals in the field, this Handbook provides step-by-step guidance to approaching tasks and challenges that face academic faculty members, such as interviewing for positions, evaluating contracts and offer letters, reading and preparing a basic budget, giving feedback, and engaging in self-care.

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