The residency training program in the department of psychiatry at the
University of California, Irvine College of Medicine is the 10th program to
have all of its psychiatry residents become members of
APA.FIG1
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.
The first 10 training programs whose residents all became APA members were
asked to submit a photo of their program members—residents, training
directors, and department chair—and the photo was turned into a poster
and mailed to every medical school in the United States and Canada to
encourage medical students to join APA.
(The first year of membership at the national level of APA is free for
residents and $80 thereafter for U.S. residents and $45 for Canadian
residents. Residents who are APA members receive a 25 percent discount on APPI
books and products. Membership for medical students is free.)
More information is available from Nancy Delanoche at (703)
907-8635. Programs that are interested in signing up all their residents
should also contact her. ▪