Organization Supports Psychiatric Educators

Teaching skills: creativity, technology, and evaluation

Interprofessional education: team work, communication, and other topics

Technology and education

Promotion: academic portfolios, faculty development, and mentoring

Residents and fellows (four awards)

Early career faculty teachers (six awards)

Regional faculty teachers of the year (11 awards)

Teacher, group, or program of the year

AAP award for outstanding service

Lifetime achievement award

Individual subscription to Academic Psychiatry and the Bulletin

Access to Web resources

Eligibility for awards

Discounted registration fee at annual meeting

Subscriptions to Academic Psychiatry and the AAP Bulletin

Access to Web resources

Eligibility for awards and ability to nominate residents and faculty for awards

Discounted registration fee for two department members at annual meeting

The AAP participates in and sponsors many events that are important to psychiatric education. For example, AAP members participated in the APA Summit on Medical Student Education, which was held at APA headquarters in April and was cosponsored by the Association of Directors of Medical Student Education in Psychiatry (ADMSEP). The summit offered an opportunity for participants from different psychiatric education organizations to brainstorm, identify areas for collaboration, build relationships, and develop consensus (Psychiatric News, June 17).

In an exciting new pilot project, called the AAP Workshop Consultations Feedback Program, trained consultants observe and help presenters at national psychiatric meetings to improve their teaching skills. Meetings that consultants have attended include the AAP's 2000 meeting, the 2003 meeting of Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training, and the 2005 meeting of ADMSEP. They will be attending APA's 2006 annual meeting, which will be held May 20 to 25 in Toronto.

Academic products: We wish to help faculty with teaching, through partnerships with publishing groups and a series of products, such as concise guides, handbooks, or books; monographs; portable curricula; and other teaching resources. We are exploring online options as well as hard-copy materials. Our first product is the Handbook for Faculty Development in Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, released just last month by American Psychiatric Publishing Inc. Dr. Laura Roberts and I took the lead and worked with many outstanding academicians nationally.

Use of technology by AAP: We are redesigning our Web site and want to put more member information online (for example, pictures, brief CVs). Many good resources are, and could be, on the Web site: videos, slides, portable curricula, and case vignettes with slides or a discussant. The AAP work group on technology includes, in addition to me, Drs. Don Fidler, Bob Boland, Debbie Hales, Carl Chan, Simon Kung, Joe Layde, John Luo, David Lynn, Phil Muskin, and Linda Worley.

Faculty development consultation service: We are in the preliminary planning stages of developing individual, group, departmental, and institutional consultations.