Welcome to the Association for Academic Psychiatry Podcast! This podcast series is designed to highlight topics relevant to academic psychiatrists worldwide.

Our second episode — hosted by AAP Communications Committee member Nikhita Singhal, a psychiatry resident at the University of Toronto — features a discussion about the importance of mentorship and an introduction to the AAP’s new mentorship program with Dr. Shaheen Darani, a clinician educator and assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Toronto and staff psychiatrist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH). Dr. Darani also sits on the executive board of the AAP, where she leads mentorship activities within the organization as Chair of the Career Development Committee.

For those interested in learning more, please check out the following resources:

• Mentor Pairing Program surveys:

• • Mentee Form: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/24_Mentee

  • Mentor Form: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/24_Mentor

• AAP Mentor-Mentee Matching Program materials

• • Module 1: Preparing for mentorship & the start of the mentoring relationship

  • Module 2: Checking in on the mentoring relationship

  • Module 3: Termination and transition

• The Mentor’s Guide and The Mentee’s Guide by Lois J. Zachary

This episode would not have been possible without the mentorship and guidance of the AAP’s Communications Committee Co-Chair Dr. Ali Abbas Asghar-Ali, a geriatric psychiatrist at Baylor College of Medicine and staff physician at the Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center.

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