Another Residency Program Joins APA's 100% Club

The residency training program in psychiatry at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences College of Medicine in Little Rock 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 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 director of the psychiatry residency training program at Arkansas is Ben Guise, M.D. “We are delighted to join the APA 100% Club,” said Guise. “We are fortunate to have an excellent faculty who model professionalism and leadership. Our committed faculty members are essential to maintaining the high morale of our program. Our residents also deserve commendation for demonstrating the initiative and dedication to become actively involved in their professional organization. Please visit our Web site at<www.uams.edu/psych/academic/residency.asp>.”

Guise is an apt role model for his students when it comes to APA involvement—he is active in the Arkansas Psychiatric Society and served as its president for the 2003-04 term.

More information about the 100% Club is available from Nancy Delanoche at (703) 907-8635. Programs that are interested in signing up all their residents should also contact Delanoche. ▪