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APM MISSION: The Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine represents psychiatrists dedicated to the advancement of medical science, education, and healthcare for persons with comorbid psychiatric and general medical conditions and provides national and international leadership in the furtherance of those goals.

ACADEMY OF PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE 59TH ANNUAL MEETING

November 14–18, 2012 • Intercontinental Buckhead Hotel, Atlanta, GA

Not an APM member yet? We welcome and encourage professionals and trainees with an interest in consultation-liaison psychiatry / psychosomatiac medicine to join us — in not just Atlanta for our 59th Annual Meeting, but in also becoming an active member of the APM and taking advantage of the opportunities afforded to members. For membership details, please see How to Join.

Already an APM member? Log in to the Members' Corner with your email address and password to manage your profile, change your password, renew your membership, access your committees and SIGs, access Psychosomatics, and access special features — advocacy slides, resident education slides, tools for better billing, slides from annual meetings, and more.

RAWHIDE ROUND-UP

APM's creative Dr. Linda Worley shares a slideshow of memories from the Foundation's fundraising BBQ and auction at the 2011 Annual Meeting in Arizona.

Whether you were at the Rawhide event or missed it, we think you'll enjoy the slideshow. Visit the Foundation's web page for the link.

APA President-Elect Candidates
Respond to PM Issues

APM President Rosenstein asked the three candidates for APA 2012 President-Elect to respond to four issues of concern to the Academy. See the issues and candidate responses here.

PM FELLOWSHIP DIRECTORS:
APM Offers a Tool to Help Evaluate Fellows

PM fellowship directors who are also APM members have access to a unique set of 23 "clinical vignettes" to help evaluate fellows near the end of their term.

Sign in to the Members' Corner, click "Your Committees & SIGs" (on the right side of the page), and follow the links to the vignettes.

If you are a director and already signed into the Members' Corner, simply click here to access the vignettes.

PSYCHIATRY RESIDENT DIRECTORS:
Updated PM Curriculum for
Psychiatry Residency Programs

The Residency Education Subcommittee has reviewed and performed an update of its series of junior resident lectures on topics in psychosomatic medicine. The presentations were authored by your peers in the Academy and include diverse topics. The 13 presentations (PowerPoint files) remain available free of charge to APM members.

Sign in to the Members' Corner and take the link to "PM Curriculum for Psychiatry Residency Programs." Non-APM members can view PDF previews here.

If you are already signed into the Members' Corner, simply click here to access the lectures.

Our Journal, Psychosomatics

Included in the advantages of APM membership are a subscription to our journal (both online and hardcopy) as well as online access to two companion journals — General Hospital Psychiatry and Journal of Psychosomatic Research. Also, APM members receive 25% discount on books and journals published by Elsevier, Inc. when ordered online. For more benefits of membership in the Academy, see Membership Advantages.

APM Members: Use the links to the journals and book discount in the Members' Corner to access full articles without having to log into the Elsevier site.

Non-profit institutions in developing countries can have free or low-cost online access to Psychosomatics and over 3000 other journals with HINARI from the World Health Organization.

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