AACP Newsletter, Volume 14,
Number 1, Winter 2000
APA/Bristol-Myers Squibb Fellowship
The APA/BMS Fellows have many opportunities to heighten their leadership potential. Each fellow is assigned to an APA component related to their interests and participates in all facets of their component, including sponsorship to attend component meetings held in the fall and other appropriate meetings. Additionally, the fellows have a significant role in the Institute on Psychiatric Services as presenters of a series of workshops at the IPS and thus, receive sponsorship to attend two institutes. At the 1999 IPS in New Orleans, the 1998-2000 fellows presented on a variety of topics including:
- Cultural Competence: Critical Issues in Psychiatry
- Assessing Quality of Care in a Mental Health Program
- Religion and Psychiatry: Barriers and Land Mines
- Mental Health Services in a Community School: The Experience at Salomé Urena De Henriquez Intermediate School 218.
These workshops were so well received at the 1999 IPS that the fellows have been invited to publish their presentations in Psychiatric Services
In addition to selecting a liaison to participate on the IPS Scientific Program Committee, each class selects representatives to the APA's Board of Trustees and Joint Reference Committee and to the Board of the American Association of Community Psychiatrists. In fact, this fellowship has contributed greatly to the leadership of the AACP Board in that some fellows have been members of the AACP Board well after their fellowship terms. Members of the AACP have historically served as mentors to the fellows and participated in their activities at IPS. The relationship between AACP and APA/BMS Fellowship is indeed a strong and rich link that has served to benefit both groups.
It is evident that the fellows have extraordinary opportunities. Given the prestige and value of the program, residency programs are strongly encouraged to nominate residents. Leah Dickstein, MD, Chair of the APA/BMS Selection Committee comments that the fellowship is "literally a once in a lifetime opportunity to blossom early in the spring of a resident's career, learning about leadership and community/public psychiatry. Availing themselves of close observation of current role model leaders in the field, while gaining encouragement and professional self-esteem from group interactions, is invaluable at this career point and clearly sets the stage for appropriate high lifetime aspirations and achievements. The fellows are always an inspiration to me as well." I encourage all members of the AACP to contact residency training directors in their areas to remind them of this outstanding fellowship and urge them to nominate one of their residents! The nomination deadline is April 3, 2000. Since the fellowship is a two-year term, psychiatry residents entering PGY-3 during the fellowship are eligible. Residents who will be entering their PGY-4 will be considered if they are in a 5-year program. For additional requirements, brochure, or application, please contact Ms. Bea Edner at bedner@psych.org or (202) 682-6326.
If you are planning on participating in the 52nd IPS in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during October 25-29, 2000, please support the 1999-2000 fellows by attending their workshops. The 1999-2000 fellows include Ernest Alaimalo, MD (University of Hawaii); Michele Baker, MD (Harvard Longwood); Claudio Cabrejos, MD (Tulane University Medical Center); Sara K. Gardiner, MD (University of California-San Francisco); Leslie Horton, MD, PhD (University of Southern California School of Medicine); Alan Langlieb, MD (Johns Hopkins); Jacqueline Lebel, JD, MD (Brown University); Jacqueline C. McGregor, MD (Baylor College of Medicine); William Resnick, MD (Harbor/ UCLA Medical Center).
Thanks to Ms. Beatrice Edner of the APA Office of Quality Improvement and Psychiatric Services for her contributions to this article and for her ongoing dedication to this fellowship.
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