Didactic Opportunities

Pediatric Psychology Seminar Series

• Trainees are required to attend and actively participate in a weekly Pediatric Psychology seminar series offered via Zoom.
• Teaching domains within the seminar series include but are not limited to:
  • Clinical and community resources
  • Ethics, laws, and statutes in clinical practice
  • Historical Local Community Context for Service Delivery
  • Cultural competency and humility in clinical practice and supervision
  • Supervision approaches
  • Evidence-based intervention approaches
  • Evidence-based assessment approaches
  • Pediatric psychology consultation approaches
  • School-Based or Childcare-based intervention
  • Integrating technology into services
  • Joint sessions with Child Psychiatry

Training Director and Professional Development Meetings

Trainees attend regular training director and professional development meetings. The focus of training director meetings is to provide support to trainees related to improving their overall experience during the training year. In addition, these meetings are utilized to discuss societal events that may impact trainees and/or the populations that they serve. The training director seeks ongoing feedback about the program during these meetings to collaborate on solutions with trainees when/if problems arise. Some meetings are devoted to promoting the professional development of trainees including but not limited to the following topics:

• Preparing your CV for your next career step
• Writing an effective letter of interest
• Interview and job talk preparation
• Negotiating job offers, salaries, and compensation packages
• Preparing for the licensing exam
• Psychology licensure
• Seeking board certification
• Communicating to the media via radio, television, and/or print
• Building out communications via social media, websites, and podcasts
• Career Spotlights:
  • Women in Psychology
  • Private Practice
  • Tenure vs. Non-Tenure Academic Positions
  • Working in Public Health or Policy Sectors
  • Professional Consultation

Mailman Center Interprofessional Collaborative Meetings

Five interprofessional collaboratives (IPCs) have been established in the areas below with the goal of promoting collaboration and prioritization of clinical, training, research and community engagement activities and initiatives.  Each IPC meets once monthly. In addition, monthly Mailman Center Grand Rounds are offered related to IPC topics of interest.

 Trainees may attend and participate in as many IPCs as they like but are required to attend and participate in at least one IPC consistently throughout the training year.

• Lifespan IPC focuses strategic efforts on transitioning from pediatric to adult care for individuals with special health concerns and/or developmental disabilities
• Community Wellness IPC focuses on strategic community-based approaches for promoting the wellness (e.g., physical health, behavioral health) of young children and those who care for them (e.g., caregivers, teachers, childcare staff)
• Promoting Behavioral Health IPC focuses on strategic approaches to increases in integration of behavioral health services into all medical services and enhancing access and integration of technology into clinical services.
• Neurodevelopment Intervention Science IPC focuses on strategic approaches to promoting the  development of young children birth to  five years old
• Neurodevelopment Discovery Science IPC promotes basic science research with a specialty focus on young children ages birth to five years old with neurodevelopmental and/or physical disabilities

Leadership in Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities Interprofessional Training

The Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities (LEND) program is our core training program for graduate students, family members, and persons with disabilities. The goal of the Mailman Center LEND program is to train future leaders to improve the health of children who have neurodevelopmental disabilities, including the developmental and behavioral consequences of chronic disease. Consistent with our Mailman Center vision/mission, our LEND program focuses on reducing health disparities at the intersection of disability and other social determinants of health such as race/ethnicity, culture, language, and poverty by training the next generation of leaders to implement systems-level change.

Optional Training Opportunities

Trainees are also provided the opportunity to attend a number of other (optional) didactics including:

• Weekly Pediatric Grand Rounds
• Weekly Psychiatry Grand Rounds
• Weekly Clinical Translational Science Institute Biostatistics Collaboration and Consulting Core Virtual Biostat Roundtables
• Monthly Department of Pediatrics Research Seminar Series