The residency training program at Bergen Regional Medical Center in
Paramus, N.J., 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 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 text-book from American Psychiatric Publishing Inc. for each
year that all of their residents are APA members and a free online
subscription to Focus: The Journal of Lifelong Learning.
Commented William Greenberg, M.D., president of the New Jersey Psychiatric
Association, "The Bergen Regional Medical Center proudly announces 100
percent resident membership in APA and the New Jersey Psychiatric Association.
This marks the third consecutive year that this 28-resident program has had
100 percent APA membership, signifying a strong tradition of involvement in
the local and national psychiatric organizations. The program also recently
celebrated its 30th year, with the notable fact that Dr. Javed Iqbal has been
the residency training director for 27 of those years."
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. ▪