SPECIAL INTEREST GROUPS (SIGs)

Many APM members are especially interested in one or more particular aspects of consultation-liaison psychiatry, and several APM-sponsored "special interest groups" have been formed over the past few years to bring together professionals with like interests to discuss issues, cases, pharmaceuticals, and training. Two of these groups now have their own web page, which we invite you to view if you have an interest in AIDS psychiatry or transplant psychiatry:

• AIDS Psychistry
• Transplant Psychiatry

Three more groups have an e-mail discussion forum (listserv) only:

• Psychotherapeutic Approaches to the Medically Ill
• C-L/PM Fellowship Directors
• C-L/PM Fellows in Training

APM has been using Google Groups as the instrument for the discussion forums (or listservs). The groups have been set up so that only a member of a particular group (listserv) can post messages to that group, and all archive message boards are private — only members of a group who also have a free Google Account can view that group's archive. (Note that a Google e-mail account, or gmail, is not necessary. The e-mail address used for membership in the group must be the same as the e-mail address used for the Google Account. The password you choose for your Google Account is the password to view the archive.)

APM sponsors the following additional SIGs which communicate by teleconferencing and email, and which meet at each annual meeting. To join one of these SIGs, contact its chair:

• Bioethics — Mary Ann Cohen, MD, FAPM
• C-L Child/Adolescent Psychiatry — Maryland Pao, MD, FAPM
• Community-Based Psychosomatic Physician Practice Issues — Linda M. Peterson, MD, FAPM
• Critical Care — Dimitry S. Davydow, MD
• Early Career Psychiatrists — Jason P. Caplan, MD
• International Relations — Frederik J. Huyse, MD, PhD, FAPM
• Medicine & Psychiatry — Thomas W. Heinrich, MD, FAPM
• Neuropsychiatry — Yonas E. Geda, MD
• Palliative Care — Harold W. Goforth, MD, FAPM
• Telepsychiatry — Terry Rabinowitz, MD, FAPM
• Women's Health — Nehama Dresner, MD, FAPM
• Women's Issues — Christine E. Skotzko, MD, FAPM

If you are interested in forming a new SIG, please:
1.  Read the APM Policy on SIGs.
2.  Fill out and submit the online SIG Request Form.

PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC APPROACHES TO THE MEDICIALLY ILL Special Interest Group

This group is a merger of the former Psychodynamic Issues SIG and the Psychotherapy of the Medicially Ill SIG. Co-chairs of the group are Craig Lichtman, MD and Harold Bronheim, MD, FAPM.

Members: post a message by sending an e-mail to:
   apm-psychotherapeutics@googlegroups.com

Archived message board (only group members who also have a Google Account can view):
   http://groups.google.com/group/apm-psychotherapeutics
   (opens in new browser window)

To join this group:
   Send an e-mail to Craig Lichtman at clichtman2 at gmail dot com or to Harold Bronheim at haroldbronheim at aol dot com.

C-L/PM FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM DIRECTORS

Members: post a message by sending an e-mail to:
   fellowship-directors@googlegroups.com

Archived message board (only group members who also have a Google Account can view):
   http://groups.google.com/group/fellowship-directors
   (opens in new browser window)

To join this group:
   Send an e-mail to forum-admin at apm dot org.

Related materials:
   APM Fellowship Match Proposal
   PM Fellowship Recruitment Guidelines

C-L/PM FELLOWS in Training

Members: post a message by sending an e-mail to:
   clfellows@googlegroups.com

Archived message board (only group members who also have a Google Account can view):
   http://groups.google.com/group/clfellows
   (opens in new browser window)

To join this group:
   Send an e-mail to forum-admin at apm dot org.

Related materials:
   Common Application Form for PM Fellowship
   Suggestions for PM Fellowship Candidates (revised 2010 by Jeanne Lackamp, MD
   and Philip Bialer, MD, FAPM)

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