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Hello medical students, residents and fellows!
We’re excited to share with you about the recent and upcoming work of AACAP’s Committee on Medical Students and Residents (also includes fellows). This committee is a space within AACAP that is dedicated to trainees, and we work to support trainees’ needs and interests, through mentorship, events at the annual meeting, and other programming throughout the year. Please read on to learn about the work we’ve been doing, upcoming events and opportunities, and ways to get involved. Our monthly conference calls are open to anyone to join - please email Anneke Archer at aarcher@aacap.org to get on our listserv! And please feel free to reach out to us with any questions or thoughts.
Medical students, best of luck in the match this week!
Hoping to meet you soon,
Alissa Hemke & Cordelia Ross
Co-chairs of AACAP’s Committee on Medical Students and Residents
Alissa.hemke@seattlechildrens.org; Cordelia.Ross@mgh.harvard.edu
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Inaugural Session of the Year Long Career Development Forum: Becoming an Early Career Psychiatrist:
Look out for an RSVP e-mail to meet early career psychiatrists and learn about work/life balance as new doctors, things to consider when negotiating jobs and advocating for yourself, and the less commonly discussed career choice as a private practice doctor! |
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Monthly MSR Committee meeting
Join us for our monthly Zoom to hear about all the cool projects AACAP trainees are doing! Email our coordinator extraordinaire Anneke Archer aarcher@aacap.org to join our mailing list and receive our meeting information. |
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AACAP 2021 Virtual Legislative Conference
FREE Registration for the 2021 AACAP Virtual Legislative Conference is now open until April 30th! It is such a great and hands on way to learn about advocacy! Read more and register at the Leg Con webpage!
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AACAP MSR Peer Mentorship Program
Interested in making connections, meeting a mentor, getting your questions answered, and hearing career stories from people in our field? The AACAP MSR Peer Mentorship Program is a buddy system that pairs a senior trainee or early career psychiatrist with a junior based on interests! We are always excited to have people join this lovely family, so sign up to be a mentor or a mentee today!
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Advancing health equity through behavioral health integration: Sustaining behavioral health care in your practice
Join the AMA's Behavioral health integration (BHI) Overcoming Obstacles webinar series and hear from two child and adolescent psychiatry advocates, Dr. Patrice Harris and Dr. Melvin Oatis, as they discuss ways to address disparities that disproportionately affect minorities in receiving equitable behavioral health care and accessing treatment. We will focus on diversity/equity related to race/ethnicity, socio-economic status, and sexual orientation and gender identity (i.e., LGBTQIA+). Learn more and register at the AMA site.
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6th Annual Critical Issues in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Conference
A unique multidisciplinary conference for everyone who takes care of children with mental health needs, the 2021 CICAMH focuses on challenges in mental health for children and adolescents during the Covid-19 pandemic, emphasizing resilience and focusing on social, economic, and racial disparities. Speakers include beloved child and adolescent psychiatrists Dr. Fred Volkmar and Dr. Shawn Sidhu! Learn more and register at the CICAMH site.
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Building Resilience: Stories and Insights from Mental Health Professionals
Hear the courageous personal stories of resilience from mental health professionals. Connect, be inspired, and acknowledge our humanity with child and adolescent psychiatrist Dr. Saul Levine, who will lead us on this vulnerability journey. Learn more through the event flyer and register!
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Life Members Committee is planning a virtual mentorship event for trainees!
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Latinx and Black caucuses are jointly planning a virtual mentorship event for trainees!
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Be on the look out for the 2021 AACAP Annual Meeting events, including MSR Signature & MSR Sponsored events! More details to come in the next edition of the MSR Newsletter! |
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AACAP is committed to supporting trainee involvement, particularly with an affinity to the group(s) below. If you have an interest in any of the mentioned group meetings, sign up here.
Advocacy Liaison Network
Monthly on the 1st Monday @ 8PM ET/ 7PM CT/ 6 PM MT/ 5 PM PT
Next: 04/05/21
AACAP Alliance on Learning and Innovation
Every two months on the 3rd Tuesday @ 8PM ET/ 7PM CT/ 6 PM MT/ 5 PM PT
Next: 04/20/21
AACAP Asian Caucus
Next: 03/30/21 @ 8PM ET/ 7PM CT/ 6 PM MT/ 5 PM PT
AACAP International Medical Graduate Caucus
Next: 04/06/21 @ 8PM ET/ 7PM CT/ 6 PM MT/ 5 PM PT
AACAP Black Caucus
Every two months on the 2nd Tuesday @ 8PM ET/ 7PM CT/ 6 PM MT/ 5 PM PT
Next: 04/13/21
AACAP Latinx Caucus
Every two months on the 2nd Tuesday @ 8PM ET/ 7PM CT/ 6 PM MT/ 5 PM PT
Next: 03/23/21
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UPCOMING AACAP AWARD OPPORTUNITIES
AACAP Pilot Awards [Residents/Fellows/ ECPs]
Application Deadline: April 1, 2021
This Pilot award offers $15,000 for selected recipients. Additionally, recipients receive travel funding support to attend and are required to give a poster presentation on their research at AACAP’s 69th Annual Meeting in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, October 17-22, 2022.
AACAP'S Marilyn B. Benoit Child Maltreatment Mentorship Award [Fellows/ ECPs]
Application Deadline: April 16, 2021
Child and adolescent psychiatry residents and fellows or early career psychiatrists (within 7 years of graduating from a fellowship program) with an interest in child welfare, foster care, and/or child maltreatment prevention/intervention are invited to submit online applications for AACAP’s Marilyn B. Benoit, MD, Child Maltreatment Mentorship Award. Funded by Ms. Lisa Yang in honor of Marilyn B. Benoit, MD, with the goal of bringing attention to issues surrounding child maltreatment, this opportunity provides an experiential opportunity for up to two recipients interested in these issues. The selected candidate(s) may receive up to $8,000 to facilitate the completion of a project lasting 12-16 weeks in which each will collaborate with a self-selected mentor specializing in the aforementioned areas. For questions, contact clinical@aacap.org.
AACAP Early Career Investigator Award, funded by Industry Supporters and AACAP [ECPs]
Extended Application Deadline: April 1, 2021
This award offers $30,000 a year for two years for one child and adolescent psychiatry early career faculty recipient (assistant professor level or equivalent). The recipient has the opportunity to submit a poster presentation on his or her research for AACAP's 70th Annual Meeting in New York, New York, October 23-28, 2023. For questions, email research@aacap.org
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Information about
JAACAP and
JAACAP Connect are provided here. Contact the
JAACAP Editorial Office at support@jaacap.org or (202) 966-7300 ext. 153 for questions regarding potential topics, outlines, and articles.
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JAACAP will publish a series of papers on the effects of race, racism, social justice, and health equity in child and adolescent psychiatry. These articles may include New Research, Reviews, Clinical Perspectives, Commentaries, Attachments, and Book Reviews. Authors are invited to submit proposals for consideration. This proposal should include an abstract and initial outline, along with the list of proposed authors, so that early feedback can be provided prior to the development of a full manuscript. An invitation to submit does not guarantee acceptance. All papers should conform to the appropriate author guidelines (see Guide for Authors) and will undergo peer review. Please direct inquiries and proposals to support@jaacap.org. Please specify in your proposal that the submission is intended for the special series on race and racism.
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Staying Pawsitive, one Pet at a time
"There is no psychiatrist in the world like a puppy licking your face." - Ben Williams |
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"The best therapist has fur and four legs"
Send us photos of your furry therapists to be featured in our newsletter -
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Meet the Newsletter creators!
Please feel free to reach out if you have questions or have anything to feature in our MSR newsletter! You can email us at aacapmsr@gmail.com.
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