Another Residency Program Joins APA's 100% Club

The residency training program in the department of psychiatry at the University of Utah is the eighth program in 2004 to have all of its psychiatry residents become members of APA.

It joins the ranks of an exclusive organization within APA: the 100% Club. This club was established to encourage residents throughout the United States and Canada to join APA and to do so with other trainees in their programs, according to Deborah Hales, M.D., director of APA's Division of Education and Career Development.

A photo of each program that joins the 100% Club will be turned into a poster and mailed to every medical school in the United States and Canada to encourage medical students to join APA.

Commented Meredith Alden, M.D., the Utah program's training director and president of the Utah Psychiatric Association, “In addition to our 100 percent membership in APA, the University of Utah psychiatry residency program has a pass rate of more than 90 percent for the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology exams. We are proud of our excellent training program. Please visit at<www.med.utah.edu/psychiatry>.”

More information about the 100% Club is available from Nancy Delanoche of APA'sDivision of Education and Career Development at (703) 907-8635. Programs thatare interested in signing up all their residents should also contact Delanoche.▪