APA's 100% Club Picks Up Another Member Program

The psychiatry residency training program at Southern Illinois University 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 the residents in 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.

Said Jeffrey Bennett, M.D., the director of the training program, “I am pleased that all of our resident trainees have decided to join the American Psychiatric Association and participate in this important professional organization. The training program at Southern Illinois University emphasizes an integration of community psychiatry, psychotherapy, and biological psychiatry to better prepare residents for the challenges of future learning and evidence-based practices. APA provides many excellent resources and leadership that will enable this process.”

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. ▪