Dear Residents:
Residents Monitors needed for APA Annual Meeting’s Scientific Program
San Francisco, California, May 16 - 21, 2009
DON’T MISS THIS OPPORTUNITY! ─ Want to learn more about a specific psychiatric topic, hear thoughtful leader’s presentations, understand how to spot bias and know what constitutes a balanced CME presentation?
The American Psychiatric Association’s scientific program sessions at the Annual Meeting are held to strict standards for balance, scientific rigor and objectivity. Again this year, the APA Department of Continuing Medical Education is hiring psychiatric residents, who will be attending the meeting, to serve as monitors (and alternates) for the Industry-Supported Symposia (ISS) and other scientific session formats. Residents, who are selected to participate, will serve for 2.5-hour sessions.
Monitors will assist the APA in ensuring that the scientific program sessions adhere to APA guidelines by completing a program review form that will include questions about disclosure of possible conflict of interest by each presenter, bias, the use of the brand names of drugs, and discussions about off-label psycho- pharmacologic options. Additionally, monitors will obtain a copy of all program handouts for the permanent records of the APA Department of Continuing Medical Education. Alternates agree to be available for specific sessions and to function as a monitor if required.
In exchange for serving as a monitor, the APA will pay each resident an honorarium of $100 per 2.5-hour session; alternates will receive $25 per session as on-call pay. Payment will be mailed out 4-to-6 weeks after the meeting. No other expenses will be covered.
All monitors and alternates are invited to attend a 90-minute workshop on recognizing bias in continuing medical education presentations, which will be given by Donald Hilty, M.D., Department of Psychiatry, University of California, Davis. The workshop will be held on Sunday, May 17, 2009, at 9:00 a.m., in the ISS Program Office, Room 228, Mezzanine Level East in the Moscone Convention Center.
Interested residents should submit an application by May 1, 2009. The program is open to all psychiatry residents; however, assignment(s) will be made with the following applicants receiving priority: current APA members and PGY 3 or 4 residents. Applications are processed according to the date the application is received in the APA Central Office. Other variables used in determining assignments include schedule availability and topic(s) of interest. Assignments are not considered final until you receive a confirmation letter and have returned the completed response form.
To receive more information and an APA Resident Monitor Program application:
Request an application by e-mail to ppardee@...
Please email or fax your completed application to Philip Pardee at 703-907-7849 or ppardee@...
Thank you for your interest and support of the APA’s CME activities and the Resident Monitor Program. |
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