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Mentoring Partnerships for Minority Faculty and Graduate Students in Mental Health Services Research

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Abstract

Objective

The authors developed mentorship programs to train minority junior faculty and advanced graduate students in mental health services research.

Method

The programs target “mentees” in the Southwest United States and offer long-term mentoring, seminars, group supervision seed funding for peer reviewed research proposals peer interaction, and weeklong institutes that feature presentations and mentoring by recognized experts.

Results

Evaluations suggest that these programs have influenced participants’ career development. Most mentees have continued to evolve in their research careers, submitted research grant applications, and obtained postdoctoral fellowships, and/or have advanced in faculty positions. Some mentees have expressed an opinion that without the support network that these programs provided, they would have abandoned their academic careers.

Conclusions

Future training efforts should take into account a series of challenges and tensions that affect mentees’ careers and personal lives, including the emotional legacy of discrimination and historical trauma.

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Authors and Affiliations

  1. Departments of Sociology and of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA

    Howard Waitzkin M.D., Ph.D. (Professor)

  2. Department of Psychiatry, University of New Mexico, 2400 Tucker Avenue N.E., MSC09 5030, Albuquerque, NM, 87131, USA

    Joel Yager M.D. (Professor and Vice Chair for Education and Academic Affairs)

  3. Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA

    Tassy Parker R.N., Ph.D. (Assistant Professor)

  4. Department of Family and Community Medicine and Masters in Public Health Program, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, USA

    Bonnie Duran Dr.P.H. (Associate Professor)

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Correspondence to Joel Yager M.D..

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To the memory of Dr. Ervin Lewis, whose passion about justice and education for American Indians and other groups sharing a history of discrimination and trauma inspired the efforts that the authors describe here.

Supported in part by grants 1R24 MH58404, 1R25 MH60288, 1R03 MH067012-01, and K01 MH02018-01A1 from the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and by grant 048127 from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. We express gratitude to the late Kenneth Lutterman, Ann Hohmann, Enid Light, and Junius Gonzales at NIMH; Lisa Cacari-Stone Billie Jo Kipp Dona Lewis Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar Jean Cordova, John Oetzel, Gloria López, and Julia Taylor at the University of New Mexico; and Roberto Chené, Lorenzo García, Margie Goldstrom, Mandy Pino, Delfi Peña Roach, Wendy Thunderchief, Porfirio Bueno, Antony Stately, Nadine Tafoya, and Melinda García of our Community Advisory Board for their major contributions to these efforts.

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Waitzkin, H., Yager, J., Parker, T. et al. Mentoring Partnerships for Minority Faculty and Graduate Students in Mental Health Services Research. Acad Psychiatry 30, 205–217 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ap.30.3.205

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