Another Residency Program Joins APA's 100% Club

The psychiatry residency training program at the University of North Dakota 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 is 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.

Program Director David Abbott, M.D., said, “In the psychiatry residency program here at the University of North Dakota School of Medicine and Health Sciences, we emphasize a partnership between residents and faculty to provide for the education and professional development of the residents. This facilitates a commitment by residents to the lifelong learning that will sustain them throughout their careers. Putting this into action, this group of residents, recognizing the educational and professional benefits of APA membership, organized this 100 percent membership effort.”

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. ▪