Another Residency Program Joins APA's 100% Club
The psychiatry residency training program at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center in Jamaica, N.Y., is the latest residency program to have all of its psychiatry residents become members of APA.
Seated, from left: Naveed Mirza, M.D. (chief resident), Adam Chester, D.O. (assistant director of psychiatry residency training), Seeth Vivek, M.D. (chair of Department of Psychiatry), Diane Sacks, M.D. (director of psychiatry residency training), Padmaja Puppala, M.D. Standing from left: Pierre Joseph, M.D., Marion Georgiev, M.D., Jaya Varma, M.D., Sachidanand Peteru, M.D., Salah Qureshi, M.D., Sagarika Ray, M.D., Kavita Vasu, M.D., Shushan Hovanesian, M.D., Saloni Wadia, M.D., Deowchand Depoo, M.D., Ashish Bhatt, M.D., Munibur Khan, M.D., Omer Stupac. M.D., Jafar Bozorgmehr, M.D.
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.
“We are proud of our accomplishments in this short period of time,” said Seeth Vivek, M.D., chair of the Department of Psychiatry at Jamaica Hospital Medical Center. “Our fledgling program has matured into a high-performing residency. We benefit from a multicultural community and a diverse, accomplished faculty.”
Vivek is also treasurer of the New York State Psychiatric Association and the Queens Psychiatric Society representative to the APA Assembly.
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. ▪
