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APA Invites Nominations for MITTE Candidates

The APA Nominating Committee is accepting recommendations for candidates for the member-in-training trustee-elect (MITTE) position for the 1998 election. Residents must be APA members-in-training when the recommendation is made and must be in their PGY-2 or PGY-3 year the summer of 1997.

Each year, a member-in-training trustee-elect is elected at large 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 member-in-training trustee-elect is elected. The resident elected in the 1998 election will serve as member-in-training trustee-elect from May 1998 to May 1999, and as member-in-training trustee from May 1999 to May 2000.

Recommendations for consideration by the Nominating Committee must come from an APA Area representative or a voting member of the Board of Trustees. Each Area representative may recommend three residents, and each Board member, one. Training directors who wish to suggest residents for consideration may do so to their Area representative or any Board of Trustees member, and the representative or Board member will submit, along with his/her letter of recommendation, the following materials from the resident:

  1. A c.v. no more than two pages in length.


  2. A one-page personal statement from the resident supporting his/her recommendation, including answers to

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


  4. 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.

The deadline for submission of materials is August 5.

For more information on the MITTE nominating process or how to contact Area representatives and Board members, call Carol Lewis at the APA central office at (202) 682-6063; fax: (202) 682-6282; e-mail: clewis@psych.org.

(Psychiatric News, July 4, 1997)