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Early Career Professional Development Issues for Military Academic Psychiatrists

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Objective

Academically motivated graduates of military psychiatric residency programs confront serious challenges.

Method

In this article, the authors present a junior faculty development model organized around four overlapping domains: mentorship, scholarship, research, and career planning/development. Using these four domains as a platform for discussion, the authors focus on challenges facing academically oriented early-career military psychiatrists and provide guidance.

Conclusion

The authors believe that a proactive stance, skillful mentoring self-awareness through conscious planning and effort, ability to capitalize on existing opportunities for growth, and attention to detail are all vital to the junior military psychiatrist.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, DC, USA

    Christopher H. Warner M.D.

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Malcolm Grow Medical Center, Andrews Air Force Base, Camp Springs, Maryland, USA

    Christopher H. Warner M.D.

  3. Department of Psychiatry, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, Bethesda, Maryland, USA

    William V. Bobo M.D.

  4. Department of Psychiatry, Wilford Hall Medical Center, Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas, USA

    Julianne Flynn M.D.

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Warner, C.H., Bobo, W.V. & Flynn, J. Early Career Professional Development Issues for Military Academic Psychiatrists. Acad Psychiatry 29, 437–442 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ap.29.5.437

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