APA Seeks Nominations for MIT Trustee-Elect

Residents are reminded that the APA Nominating Committee is accepting recommendations for candidates for the member-in-training trustee-elect (MITTE) position for the 1999 election. 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.

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, 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 following materials from the resident:

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 the resident 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 member-in-training trustee position was created by constitutional amendment in 1987. Each year, a member-in-training trustee-elect (MITTE) 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.

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

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