Daily: Wednesday, October 25 – Saturday, October 28
11:30 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.
Mentorship Program for Medical Students and Residents
The Mentorship Program matches medical students, general psychiatry residents, and child psychiatry residents in small groups over the course of the AACAP Annual Meeting. These forums provide participants the opportunity to establish working relationships and share ideas, challenges, and accomplishments. Topics include balancing personal and professional obligations, securing an intellectually stimulating peer environment, finding mentors, academic writing, networking, and getting involved in local and national advocacy initiatives.
Sponsored by the AACAP Committee on Medical Students, Residents, and Early Career Psychiatrists
Wednesday, October 25
8:00 – 11:00 a.m. (ticket)
NIDA/NIMH Grantwriting Workshop and Mock IRG Panel
This Workshop offers insight into grant writing and review within the National Institutes of Health system. Workshop participants watch a mock review panel with experienced investigators/reviewers and representatives from NIMH and NIDA. Participants are familiarized with NIH grant opportunities.
Partially supported by an unrestricted educational grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.
Thursday, October 26
9:30 – 10:30 a.m.
Committee on Medical Students, Residents, and Early Career Psychiatrists
This committee is devoted to working to increase trainee involvement in AACAP and to improve communication among all levels of trainees within AACAP. The committee works to better the opportunities available to trainees in AACAP both at the national level and the local level. All are invited; space is limited.
10:30 – 11:30 p.m. (open)
Resident Town Meeting
The Resident Town Meeting is an opportunity for residents and medical students to learn about AACAP and ways to become active in its work by joining AACAP components/committees. Residents also have a chance to voice their concerns and network with other residents, as well as early career psychiatrists. The meeting is held as a moderated open forum, so that current events and topics that are important to those present are discussed.
Sponsored by the AACAP Committee on Medical Students, Residents, and Early Career Psychiatrists
Thursday, October 26
2:00 – 4:00 p.m. (open)
Advocacy Campaign: How Child and Adolescent Psychiatrists Can Affect Policy Change
The AACAP’s 10-year priority is to increase child and adolescent psychiatry’s workforce. There is no better way to advocate for better access to care for children and adolescents with mental illness or child and adolescent psychiatry than through the Child Healthcare Crisis Relief Act. This Federal bill will address the critical national shortage of child and adolescent psychiatrists and other children’s mental health professionals by creating education incentives that encourage people to enter these fields. For child and adolescent psychiatry training programs, the legislation would extend Medicare graduate medical education (GME) funding support for two years after general psychiatry, and create a loan forgiveness program for use by child and adolescent psychiatrists. Congressional contacts and building relationships are the most effective means to educate members of Congress about the field and the importance of supporting the pending workforce legislation and other bills that promote children’s mental
health. Come to AACAP’s Advocacy Campaign meeting to learn more about this and other legislation affecting the profession.
Friday, October 27
7:30 – 9:30 a.m. (ticket)
Medical Student, Resident, and Early Career Psychiatry Breakfast
This breakfast symposium addresses many of the questions and challenges faced by trainees and recent graduates in child and adolescent psychiatry. Three exciting presentations are scheduled to present a range of viable and exciting pathways into the field.
Sponsored by the AACAP Committee on Medical Students, Residents, and Early Career Psychiatrists
9:30 – 10:30 a.m. (ticket)
Early Career Psychiatrist Focus Group
The Early Career Psychiatrists Focus Group is a new AACAP Annual Meeting event designed to survey the concerns and interests of early career psychiatrists and to familiarize early career psychiatrists with how to become involved in AACAP. The format of the focus group is a moderated discussion and includes a brief survey to elicit feedback regarding attendees’ experiences at the Annual Meeting.
Sponsored by the AACAP Committee on Medical Students, Residents, and Early Career Psychiatrists
