Institute Invites Residents' Submissions

Psychiatry residents will have a valuable opportunity this October to present at poster sessions and participate in activities offered for them at APA's Institute on Psychiatric Services.

The institute will be held at the Marriott Marquis Hotel in New York City from October 5 to 8.

The institute will feature five poster sessions that will make it easy for residents working on research projects to present their findings to a national audience. In the past, approximately 90 percent of all poster submissions were accepted for presentation.

The theme of the 2006 institute is “Trauma and Violence in Our Communities”; however, poster submissions on all areas of psychiatric research are welcome. Training departments often pay for registration and/or travel if the resident is also presenting a poster.

The institute provides an excellent opportunity for residents to learn about innovative work from around the country while meeting resident colleagues and interacting with experts and leaders in the field. In addition to the poster sessions, the institute includes many other experiences directed toward residents including a residents-only welcoming session, leadership and career development seminars, a “Meet the Experts” luncheon that allows for informal consultation with leaders in psychiatric specialties, a full-day session on working with homeless mentally ill individuals, mentoring opportunities, and clinical discussion groups in general and public psychiatry.

This year there will also be several workshops and presentations that will focus on disaster psychiatry with specific focus on mental health treatment during and after the recent hurricanes and 9/11.

The institute also features general receptions, daily prize drawings in the Exhibit Hall, and industry-supported lunch and dinner symposia.

The poster-submission deadline is June 5. Residents interested in submitting posters may obtain a submission form by calling APA's Answer Center at (888) 357-7924 or by downloading a form from<www.psych.org/IPS2006>. The completed form should be faxed to (703) 907-1090.

More information is available from Jill Gruber, associate director of the institute, by phone at (703) 907-7815 or by e-mail at [email protected].▪