Recommendations Now Being Accepted for MITTE Position

The APA Nominating Committee is accepting recommendations for candidates for the member-in-training trustee-elect (MITTE) position for APA's 1999 election.

The member-in-training trustee position was created by constitutional amendment in 1987.

Each year an MITTE is elected at large and serves on the Board of Trustees for one year without a vote. At the end of that year, the MITTE advances to member-in-training trustee (MITT) and serves on the Board for one year with voting privileges.

These positions provide national APA leadership opportunities specifically for members-in-training. The resident elected in the 1999 election will serve as MITTE from May 1999 to May 2000, and as MITT from May 2000 to May 2001.

Under procedures revised by the Board of Trustees last year, recommendations for consideration by the Nominating Committee must come from the APA Area representative or a voting member of the Board of Trustees. Each Area representative may recommend three residents, 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 the resident's materials with a letter of recommendation to the Nominating Committee.

Residents must be APA members-in-training when the recommendation is made and must be in their PGY-2 or PGY-3 year this summer. They must submit the following information by August 5, along with the recommendation from their Area representative or a Board member:

1. A curriculum vitae no more than two pages in length.


2. A one-page personal statement from the resident supporting his/her recommendation, including answers to these questions: (a) What would your particular skills and experience bring to APA? (b) What would you do to address the major issues facing psychiatry and/or APA?


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 MITT.

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