Another Residency Program Joins APA's 100% Club

The residency training program in the department of psychiatry at Northwestern University is the seventh program in 2004 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.

The first 10 training programs whose residents all become APA members in the same year can submit a photo of their program members—residents, training directors, and department chair— and the photo 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.

“The faculty of a residency program serve as the model to our residents for involvement in all aspects of our profession,” said Sidney Weissman, M.D., director of the residency training at Northwestern.“ This involvement requires the faculty's active participation in our professional societies. At Northwestern our chair, Ronald Krasner, M.D., is secretary of the American Association of Directors of Psychiatric Residency Training; our clinical director is on the council of the Illinois Psychiatric Society, our former chair is the treasurer of the Illinois Psychiatric Society and a member of various other professional societies, and I am APA's Area 4 trustee.

“The faculty's participation and commitment to psychiatric professionalism, however, are not enough to engage our residents in the activities of APA. The residents in a fertile academic environment must take the steps to belong. At Northwestern the steps and essential actions to belong to the 100% Club came from the residents and not the faculty. I congratulate all of them and all of the resident members of APA.”

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. ▪