Details for the 2025 APAHC Early Career Boot Camp

Please remember to apply by March 15, 2025! The application can be found at the bottom of this page.

Boot Camp Topics

Career Decision-Making as an Early Career Psychologist: Balancing Values, Opportunities, Identities, Passions, and More

In this segment, our keynote speaker will describe factors that can influence early career psychologists’ transition into their early career, including recommendations for shaping your early career trajectory to meet your long-term goals. The speaker will also describe their own transition into and and throughout early career, emphasizing lessons learned and recommendations for early career psychologists.

Building your skills, confidence, and reputation as a leader

In this discussion, our keynote speaker will discuss her experience remaining in academic medicine and building out not only her own burgeoning clinical practice and early career leadership role within a large academic health center,, but also her role as director of a growing fellowship program. This speaker will provide thoughtful insights into ways in which attendees can begin building leadership and advocacy roles into their early career.

Serving as an advocate and working toward advancement as an early career psychologist

Building off a well-attended and well-received session at the APAHC 2023 ECBC, a panel of keynote speakers will describe ways in which early career psychologists can advance their own influence in academic medicine, using psychologists’ novel training and skills to promote optimal policy and practice within and beyond their institution’s walls.

Navigating ethical conundrums, avoiding burnout, and flourishing as an early-career professional

This segment will be delivered by one of this country’s leading bio-ethicists, who has working alongside policy makers time and time again to promote the values and goals we all hold. In this segment, the keynote speaker will describe ways in which early career psychologists can champion for community voices to be heard, work toward personal and professional goals and values, and maintain their own psychological safety and wellness throughout and beyond early career.

Additional Early Career Boot Camp Opportunities

CV Consultation

We will be continuing the "CV Consult" in Florida and want to invite you to participate. The CV Consult is intended for interns, fellows, and early career psychologists who are seeking feedback about their CV and steps to facilitate promotion and general career advancement. The event will allow for 30 minute consults which are scheduled over the lunch break on Friday. If you wish to be included please check the approbate box below. Appointments will be offered on a first come, first serve basis. If we are not able to accommodate your request at the APAHC 2025 conference we will be keeping a list of those who apply and will give them priority at future events that we plan to hold at the APA convention and future APAHC conferences.

Year-Round Networking Opportunities

As an optional bonus, MCBC attendees may choose to attend quarterly, virtual meetings following the conference. Ongoing quarterly meetings are intended to facilitate continued collegial networking, peer instrumental and social support, and peer accountability to ensure continued progress toward personal career goals. We hope that fostering these interest-based networks between conference years will serve as an additional way APAHC members can remain engaged and supported between meetings.

Have questions? Please feel free to reach out to our Early Career Boot Camp planning team:

Phil Fizur - fizur-philip@cooperhealth.edu

Staci Schield - staci.schield612@gmail.com

The 2025 conference co-chairs are also available for general conference questions:

Melissa Faith - mfaith1@jhmi.edu

Lisa Ramirez - lramirez@metrohealth.org

To apply for ECBC, please complete the application below.