The APA Nominating Committee is accepting recommendations for candidates for the member-in-training trustee-elect (MITTE) position for the 2001 election.

The member-in-training trustee position was created by constitutional amendment in 1987. Each year, a member-in-training trustee-elect (MITTE) is elected by APA members-in-training and serves on the Board for one year without a vote. At the end of that year, the member-in-training trustee-elect advances to member-in-training trustee (MITT) and serves on the Board for one year with voting privileges. A new MITTE is elected. These positions provide national APA leadership opportunities specifically for members-in-training.

The resident elected in the 2001 election will serve as MITTE from May 2001 to May 2002, and as MITT from May 2002 to May 2003.

Residents must be APA members-in-training when the recommendation is made (they must have been accepted as APA members). They must be in their PGY-2 or PGY-3 year this summer and submit the following information by August 1:

• A curriculum vitae that is no more than two pages in length.

• A one-page personal statement from the resident including answers to these questions: What would your particular skills and experience bring to APA? What would you do to address the major issues facing psychiatry and/or APA?

• A statement from the training director indicating that if the resident is elected, the training director agrees to allow him or her to honor this two-year commitment as MITTE and MITT as part of training.

• PGY-3 residents must submit a signed statement of intent to continue training through PGY-5 so as to be in training through the term as member-in-training trustee.