Nominations Invited for Irma Bland Award

APA's Council on Medical Education and Lifelong Learning seeks nominations for the Irma Bland Award for Excellence in Teaching Residents. This award gives certificates to APA members who have made outstanding and sustaining contributions to resident education in psychiatry.

Nominees should have significant and sustained contributions (at least three years of teaching at the nominating institution) to the advancement of resident education in one or more of the following categories: teaching in different settings (psychiatry emergency services, inpatient, outpatient, community mental health, and other subspecialty settings); lectures/didactics; small group teaching or rounds; supervision; course design and/or administration; departmental committees (curriculum, evaluation, and promotions); institutional committees (admissions, curriculum, student affairs, and promotions); career counseling; research, publications, and/or presentations; and extracurricular programs (for example, orientation and leading support groups).

The council will select one salaried faculty member (any faculty member paid by the residency program, affiliated hospital, or any other source for time spent teaching residents) and one voluntary faculty member (any faculty member not paid by the residency program, affiliated hospital, or any other source for time spent teaching residents) for each general psychiatry training program.

General psychiatry residency training programs accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education and the Royal College of Psychiatrists are eligible to nominate faculty.

The nomination deadline is November 1. More information and a nomination form are posted online at<www.psych.org/edu/blandaward.cfm>.▪