Another Residency Program Joins APA's 100% Club

The psychiatry residency program at New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center in Valhalla, N.Y., 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.

“APA is at the forefront of American psychiatry, dealing with the many exciting opportunities as well as challenges facing psychiatrists,” commented Wendy Thompson, M.D., director of residency training and undergraduate medical education at the Westchester Medical Center. “Drs. Joseph English and Neil Zolkind and I are pleased that all of our residents have become APA members at this early point in their careers, as this will help them keep abreast of ongoing developments in the field and hopefully spur them to increased participation in APA and district branches.”

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