William Webb Fellowship Program

For advanced psychiatry residents and fellows with a
subspecialty in Psychosomatic Medicine

Applications must be received by JULY 31 of each year.

Information and Application Procedure (same information as below)

Purpose of the Program

The Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine has created the William Webb Fellowship Program to foster the career development and leadership potential of advanced residents and Psychosomatic Medicine fellows via:

1. Mentorship. Each Fellow will have two designated mentors: one from their sponsoring institution and one from the APM.
2. Networking. Each Fellow will be provided structured and supervised involvement in the national PM organization, APM.
3. Sustained involvement. Each Fellow will be substantively involved in significant ongoing APM projects.
4. Affirmation and consolidation of professional identity. Each Fellow will experience collegial interactions via APM and through exclusive Webb Fellowship educational experiences.

As leading PM psychiatrists of the future, Webb Fellows will be especially well positioned to play key roles in educating non-psychiatric physicians who treat patients with psychiatric disorders.

The Webb Fellowship Experience

Annual Meeting Attendance
Fellows will be expected to attend the annual meeting of the APM at the beginning and at the end of their year as a Webb Fellow. They will participate in a variety of activities, including:

• Present a paper at the Annual Meeting
• Reception in their honor
• Recognition during the Awards Luncheon
• Presentation of Fellow's research during the Fellow's second APM Annual Meeting
• Research training activities
• Relevant committee assignments
• Special activities and projects with APM mentors
• APM collaborations with other national organizations

Financial Support

• The Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine will underwrite each Fellow's organizational membership for one year and annual meeting registration fee.
• Support of attendance of the Academy annual meeting at the beginning of their Fellowship appointments will be covered by the Fellow's sponsoring (nominating) institution. The sponsoring institution will also provide a mentor for the Fellow.
• The Academy will underwrite travel costs for the Fellow's attendance at the second annual meeting. This includes coach airfare, hotel, and expenses for meals and incidentals.

Application Procedure

The Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine welcomes your application to the William Webb Fellowship Program. To be considered, you must:

• Be an advanced psychiatry resident or PM fellow.
• Psychiatrists who have recently (within one year) completed fellowship training in PM may also apply.
• Demonstrate excellent potential for the specific goals and aims of the Fellowship.
• Provide evidence of institutional support for your candidacy, including the availability of a mentor at your home institution.
• Prepare a cover page which includes: name, address, phone, fax and e-mail; name of institution, name of proposed institution mentor, your current position and your position next year; and a list of areas of major interest.
• Prepare a personal statement specifying your plans and goals, and describing how the Webb Fellowship will enhance your career development.
• Include a curriculum vitae.
• Provide two (2) letters of recommendation.
• Mail all materials in one package to:

  Research Committee Chair
  Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine
  5272 River Road, Suite 630
  Bethesda , MD 20816

Annual deadline for application is July 31.

Sponsoring institutions may nominate more than one applicant, but only one applicant can be selected from an institution.

About the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine

The Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine (APM), represents psychosomatic medicine and consultation-liaison psychiatry at the national level through collaboration on practice guideline development, evaluation of PM fellowship training programs, its annual scientific meeting, and through interactions with other medical organizations.

The Academy's journal, Psychosomatics, is the leading PM scholarly journal, widely read and cited by psychiatrists, non-psychiatric physicians, and other health professionals.

About William Logan Webb, Jr., MD

The Webb Fellowship is named in honor of Doctor William L. Webb, Jr. (1930-1992), who served as President of the Academy of Psychosomatic Medicine from 1986 to 1987.

Doctor Webb was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and attended Princeton University and Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. After interning at Barnes Hospital in St. Louis , Doctor Webb returned to Johns Hopkins for a psychiatry residency.

Over the years, Doctor Webb served as tenured professor of psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania, chair of the department of psychiatry at the University of Tennessee in Memphis, medical director of the Sheppard and Enoch Pratt Hospital in Towson, Maryland and psychiatrist-in-chief of the Institute of Living in Hartford, Connecticut.

Doctor Webb served a director of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology for eight years. During this time, Doctor Webb's vision was exemplified by his early support of the development of consultation-liaison psychiatry as a subspecialty.

Doctor Webb was a trustee of the American Psychiatric Association, the Group for the Advancement of Psychiatry, and a member of the board of regents of the American College of Psychiatrists. He was also a member of the prestigious Benjamin Rush Society and in 1991, Doctor Webb was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal of the American College of Psychiatrists.

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