Another Residency Program Joins APA's 100% Club
First row, from right: Michael Trangle, M.D. (Regions chair), Elizabeth Reeve, M.D. (program director), Arshi Muhammad, M.D., Ambitabh Tipnis, M.D., Moeen Bhatti, M.D., Kathryn Fischer, M.D., and Mary Barraclough (coordinator). Second row, from left: Negar Beheshti, M.D., Inder Raj Grewal, M.D., Reba Peoples, M.D., Jeannie Blomberg (coordinator), Heather Berg-Patel, M.D., and Betti Childs (coordinator). Third row, from left: Heidi Iwanski, M.D., Aakash Ahuja, M.D., Matt Malone, D.O., Bryan Schwieters, M.D., Mohammad Jefferany, M.D., Zurya Anjum, M.D., and Kathleen Heaney, M.D. Fourth row, from left: Sudhir Reddy, M.D., Himanshu Agrawal, M.D., Malini Nair, M.D., Mohammad Rafiq, M.D., Shabeer Ahmed, M.D., and Taimur Malik,M.D. Not pictured: Manasi Kolpe, M.D., Michael Anikeev, M.D., Christina Frazel, M.D., and Michael Popkin, M.D. (Hennepin chair).
The Hennepin-Regions Psychiatry Residency Training Program in Minnesota is the latest residency program to have all of its psychiatry residents become members of APA. The program is run by the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minneapolis and Regions Hospital in St. Paul.
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. 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.
“The HCMC-Regions Program is a young program, started in 1996,” commented Elizabeth Reeve, M.D., the program director. “We've grown from our original eight residents to our current complement of 24. As a young program, we've had the advantage of incorporating our residents into curriculum and program development. Our dynamic chief residents were crucial in helping us achieve the 100 percent APA membership status. Their efforts have paid off in increasing the interest our residents have in local psychiatry politics and activities.”
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. ▪
