Another Residency Program Joins APA's 100% Club
The psychiatry residency training program at Mt. Sinai School of Medicine in New York City is the latest residency program 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 is turned into a poster and mailed to every medical school in the United States and Canada to encourage medical students to join APA. In addition, programs in the 100% Club receive a major textbook from American Psychiatric Publishing Inc. and a free online subscription to Focus: The Journal of Lifelong Learning for each year that all of their residents are APA members.
“We are very proud of all of our residents for many reasons, including enabling us to join the APA 100% Club,” commented Amy S. Hoffman, M.D., director of Mt. Sinai's psychiatry residency program.“ Our residents already participate in district branch activities such as the annual research competition, and we look forward to their becoming active on a national level. We need the input of trainees at every level to keep our profession moving into the future.”
Front row, from left: Martha Alzamora, M.D., Maryluz Bermudez, M.D. (residency coordinator), Neelam Varshney, M.D., Carmen Faneytt, M.D., Judy Tin-Wai Koo, M.D., Denys Arrieta, M.D., Teresa Gil, M.D. (chief resident), Raquel Choua, M.D. Middle row, from left: Syed Jaffery, M.D., Javaid Rashid, M.D., Hitendra Patel, M.D. (chief resident), Michel Rondon-Vidal, M.D., Amy S. Hoffman, M.D. (residency director), Miguel Calimano, M.D. (chief resident), Alex Altamirano, M.D. Back row, from left: Deep Lohia, M.D., Chantal Alerte-Nelson, M.D., Juan Luis Castro, M.D., Ademola Ladapo, M.D., Andes Chaparro, M.D., Vincent Okabekwa, M.D., Ann Marie T. Sullivan, M.D. (chair), Sang Ik Shin, M.D. (chief resident), Yasmin Collazo, M.D. (associate residency director), Federico Zuniga, M.D., Vladmir Jelnov, M.D., Savely Meyerzon, M.D., Irena Danczik, M.D.
More information about the 100% Club is available from Nancy Delanoche of APA's Division of Education and Career Development at (703) 907-8635. Programs that are interested in signing up all their residents should also contact Delanoche. ▪
