title: Both Feet In: Maintaining an Academic Focus During the Transition from Residency to a First Military Assignment.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  Maintenance of an academic focus is difficult for military residents transitioning into their first duty assignment.
  
  
  METHODS
  Building upon previous work on this subject, the authors present an updated and expanded junior faculty development model organized around seven overlapping domains: mentorship, scholarship, research, career planning, openness to experience, networking with other disciplines, and responsibility seeking. Using these seven domains as a platform for discussion, the authors focus on challenges facing early-career military psychiatrists and provide guidance based upon personal experience and limited applicable research.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The authors believe that highly successful early-career psychiatrists wishing to maintain an academic focus possess a proactive attitude, obtain skillful mentoring, work well with others, and are able to adapt to new environments.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Through conscious planning and goal setting, they are able to capitalize on opportunities as they become available.
authors.affiliation: Bayne-Jones Army Community Hospital, Fort Polk, LA, USA.
authors.forename: Carla W
authors.initials: CW
authors.lastname: Schnitzlein
authors.forename: Daniel J
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Lee
authors.forename: Joseph E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Wise
authors.forename: Christopher H
authors.initials: CH
authors.lastname: Warner
mesh_terms: D002321:Career Choice; D005180:Faculty, Medical; D006801:Humans; D007396:Internship and Residency; D008611:Mentors; D008889:Military Personnel; D008890:Military Psychiatry