Another Residency Program Joins APA's 100% Club

The child and adolescent psychiatry residency program at the University of Rochester 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.

The training director at the University of Rochester is Michael Scharf, M.D. Scharf has had extensive involvement with APA. He was a GlaxoSmithKline fellow in the 2000-2002 class and served as president of the GlaxoSmithKline fellows on APA's Board of Trustees for the 2001-2002 term.

“Participation in APA helps us keep all of our oars in the water,” said Scharf. “As someone who has been active in APA since medical school, I can appreciate the role that APA plays for members-in-training. Some of the most important benefits that I directly experienced as a member-in-training were having the opportunity to enhance my education through journals, educational sessions at meetings, and mentoring opportunities; being kept up to date on current events relevant to the field with periodicals and e-mail list serves; having access to an organizational structure for understanding and participating in advocacy opportunities for our patients and our field; and bringing psychiatrists in training from across North America together as one peer group are. I'm very pleased that all of my trainees will have these same opportunities.”

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. ▪