Another Residency Program Joins APA's 100% Club

The residency training program at the Maricopa Integrated Health System in Mesa, Ariz., 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 in 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. for each year that all of their residents are APA members and a free online subscription to Focus: The Journal of Lifelong Learning.

“As a public sector-based program, we are especially interested in our residents having a good understanding of the environment in which they are and will be practicing,” said William James, M.D., director of psychiatric residency training at the Maricopa Integrated Health System.“ Fortunately, we have an enthusiastic group of residents who clearly understand the necessity of expanding their professional experience beyond the limited boundaries of their residency training program. They recognize the importance of not only becoming competent psychiatrists but also of becoming part of the profession of psychiatry. As program director, I am pleased that they took it upon themselves to join the 100% Club and thereby start what I hope will be a lifelong involvement in those issues that affect our professional community. To see more about our program please visit our Web site at<http://mihs.org/mededucation/graduate/psychiatry.html>.”

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.▪