For Trainee and Early Career Members:

The Trainee and Early Career Psychiatrist (ECP) Mentorship Program connects psychiatry trainees and Early Career Psychiatrists with C-L Psychiatry specialists to enhance medical knowledge and assist with career choices.

Trainee/Early Career members can access additional mentoring opportunities. The Webb Fellowship Program supports a select number of advanced residents and C-L Psychiatry fellows in a one-year program involving scholarly work, mentorship, networking and professional development, and ACLP engagement. Trainee Travel Grants are awarded to a limited number of medical students, residents and C-L psychiatry fellows to offset the cost of attending the annual meeting.

For Career Members:

The Career Consultation Program provides members 5 to 25 years out from training the opportunity to receive consultations from experienced Academy members on topics such as program development, research, leadership skills, education, and career growth

Professorship Awards for Both Mentors and Mentees:

The ACLP Foundation Research Professor Award, developed in memory of Dr. Wayne Katon, aims to bring leading researchers to the annual meeting and provide research mentorship to early career researchers. Senior researchers may apply for the ACLP Foundation Research Professor Award, and junior researchers may apply for the Early Career Researcher Mentee Award. Members can get formal and informal mentorship through committee and interest/identity group involvement:

The Visiting Professorship Program offers financial awards to support institutions seeking to host a visiting professor. The Program hopes to facilitate close encounters and collaborations between expert C-L practitioners and colleagues and trainees at the host center.

For All Members:

ACLP SIGs, Caucuses and Forums bring together professionals to discuss clinical care, teaching and research in subspecialty areas, while a variety of Committees and Subcommittees involve volunteers in support the structure and function of ACLP. Webinars are held regularly throughout the year and include case conferences and discussions on numerous topics relevant to the C-L Psychiatrist.

There are also mentorship and networking opportunities at the ACLP Annual Meeting: please check the Annual Meeting Programs for schedule updates. Examples from previous years include the Welcome Mixer, Welcome Reception, Medical Student and Resident Meet & Greet, Poster Session with Authors, Networking Lunches, SIG Meetings, and Program/Division Directors Meetings

Annual timeline of mentorship opportunities:

The Mentorship Subcommittee was created in the Summer of 2022 in response to a proposal made by education committee leaders to evaluate, coordinate and grow Academy mentorship initiatives.  Housed under the Membership Committee, the Mentorship Subcommittee includes members who represent the Medical Student Education, Residency Education, Fellowship Education, Early Career Psychiatry and DEI Subcommittees and works closely with all of these groups to strengthen and coordinate mentorship efforts. The subcommittee oversees a number of mentorship activities, including the annual Trainee and Early Career Psychiatrist Mentorship Program, a series of mentorship-themed webinars, and a Career Consultation program. An early history of the initiative is available here.

The Subcommittee’s charge includes:

• Engage with leaders from other ACLP committee/subcommittees that currently engage in mentorship activities or offer mentorship programs to consolidate the Academy's mentorship efforts
• Identify/expand Academy mentorship efforts; develop and manage outreach to trainees and messaging about Academy programs
• Evaluate the overall strategy of Academy mentorship programs and recommend changes if needed. Consider diversity, inclusion and equity efforts and recommend options for change
• Assess quality and continued effectiveness of the Academy's mentorship programs and recommend operational changes if neede

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ACLP Annual Meeting Mentorship-related content

CLP 2023

Mentoring Across Differences: Finding Common Ground

Sponsored by ACLP’s Mentorship Subcommittee. Kewchang Lee, MD, FACLP, DFAPA Sara Nash, MD, FACLP, DFAPA | Jeong Hoo Lee, MD Janna Gordon-Elliott, MD, FACLP Paula Zimbrean, MD, FACLP, FAPA ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF CONTENT CONTRIBUTOR Stephanie Rennke, MD | Haile Debas, MD

Mentorship Across the Professional Lifespan of the C-L Psychiatrist

Carrie Ernst, MD | Nicholas Kontos, MD, FACLP Inder Kalra, MD | David Fipps, DO Sheila Lahijani, MD, FACLP

CLP 2022

Mentorship As Allyship: Transforming C-L Psychiatry Through DEI-Informed Mentoring

Co-sponsored by: ACLP’s Mentorship, & Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Subcommittees. Carrie Ernst, MD | Leena Mittal, MD, FACLP Sara Nash, MD, FACLP, FAPA Carlos Fernandez-Robles, MD, MBA, FACLP Abhisek Khandai, MD

Mentoring Through Changing Times: Looking Back and Moving Forward (Eleanor & Thomas P. Hackett Memorial Award Lecture)

Catherine Crone, MD, FACLP INTRODUCTION: Jacqueline Posada, MD

CLP 2021

Navigating Forks in the Road: Divergent Career Paths of Women Leaders in C-L Psychiatry

Leena Mittal, MD | Cornelia Cremens, MD, MPH, FACLP Linda Worley, MD, FACLP, DFAPA | Sejal Shah, MD, FACLP Madeleine Becker, MD, FACLP Discussants: Maryland Pao, MD, FACLP, FAPA, FAACAP, FAPOS Julia Ruark, MD, MPH

Advancing Knowledge, Developing Careers, and Strengthening Community Around Social Justice in C-L

Abhisek Khandai, MD Diana Robinson, MD Mira Zein, MD, MPH Adrienne Taylor, MD Kayla Behbahani, DO

Racism in Psychiatry – Its Impact on Clinical Knowledge, Research, Career Development, and Communities

Stephen Nicolson, MD, FACLP Aileen Park, MD, MPH Alric Hawkins, MD Jose Arriola Vigo, MD, MPH Sanjay Yadav, MD

How to Grow a C-L Service: A Workshop Sponsored by the ACLP C-L Division Directors’ SIG

Brian Bronson, MD, FACLP | Thomas Heinrich, MD, FACLP Priya Gopalan, MD, FACLP | Sheryl Fleisch, MD, FACLP Alex Brooks, MS, MBA Discussants: Elisabeth Kunkel, MD, FACLP | Andrea DeSimone, DO

Invited Workshop – Why Me? Leadership in C-L Psychiatry

Nehama Dresner, MD, FACLP, FAPA Rebecca Brendel, MD, JD, FACLP, DFAPA Jose Maldonado, MD, FACLP, FACFE Paul Desan, MD, PhD, FACLP Maryland Pao, MD, FACLP, FAPA, FAACAP, FAPOS Donald Rosenstein, MD, FACLP

C-L Psychiatry and Passions for Caring: Presentations by past Hackett Award Winners

Lewis Cohen, MD, FACLP Frits Huyse, MD, PhD Joel Dimsdale, MD Francis Creed, MD, FRCP, FRCPsych, FMedSci J. Michael Bostwick, MD, FACLP

External content and resources:

For mentees:

University of Wisconsin Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Resources for Mentees: (Selection) (Alignment) (Cultivation) (Closure)

Stanford Medicine: Quick Guide for Mentees

For mentors:

University of Wisconsin Institute for Clinical and Translational Research Resources for Mentors: (Selection) (Alignment) (Cultivation) (Closure)

Stanford Medicine: Preparing for Mentoring

General resources:

Emory University School of Medicine Mentoring Resources

The University of New Mexico Mentoring Institute

UCSF Office of Faculty and Academic Affairs Mentoring Resources