Another Residency Program Joins APA's 100% Club

The psychiatry residency training program at Texas Tech University Health Science Center in Lubbock, Texas, 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. and a free online subscription to Focus: The Journal of Lifelong Learning for each year that all of their residents are APA members.

“I am delighted to announce that all the residents of the psychiatry residency training program at Texas Tech University have recently become members of APA,” said training director Piro Rjepaj, M.D. “APA journals and other educational materials of this worldwide recognized organization in the field of psychiatry will be an additional ongoing source to our residents to provide them with contemporary educational updates and information in the dynamically growing fields of psychiatry and neuropsychiatry. Also, by joining APA, residents have enormous opportunities for collegiality and access to a very large network of psychiatrists at the local, national, and international levels who share similar excitement and dilemmas in general psychiatry or subspecialties in different practice settings from private office to academic psychiatry.”

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. ▪