MIT Trustee & MIT Trustee-Elect Positions
Member-In-Training Trustee (MITT) and Member-In-Training Trustee-Elect (MITTE)
What is it?
The Member-in-Training Trustee position was created by constitutional amendment in 1987. Each year, a Member-in-Training Trustee Elect 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 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 Member-in-Training Trustee (with vote) and Member-in-Training Trustee Elect (without vote) are members of the Board of Trustees, the governing body of the APA. The power to make policy is vested in the Board, and the Board's primary function is to formulate and implement the policies of the Association. The Board exercises all powers of the Association that are not otherwise assigned.
What meetings will I be expected to attend?
Members of the Board are notified in advance of the date and place of the meetings and are sent such materials on the agenda as are available. Trustees are expected to attend meetings and participate in the matters at hand, for they cannot delegate responsibility to govern or give a proxy vote. The Board customarily meets five or six times a year: in March; in May at the annual meeting (an organizational meeting with newly elected officers and trustees is held at this time); in June or July; in September or October (sometimes during the Psychiatric Services Institute), and December. The Board may meet more often at the discretion of the President. Most meetings, except for the May meeting, are held in or around Washington, D.C., at a hotel near APA headquarters. APA pays travel, room, and meal expenses for Board members to attend Board meetings. The meetings generally last two and a half days, usually over a weekend (except during the annual meeting) but dates and times are at the President's discretion.
Who is eligible?
Residents who are APA Members-in-Training and in their PGY-2 or PGY-3 year the summer prior to the election in January of the following year are eligible. PGY-3 residents must be in training through PGY 5 so as to be in training through the term as MITT (through May two years after the election) and must submit a signed statement of intent to do so, prior to nomination. If a PGY 3 resident is elected MITTE, but changes plans such that he/she is no longer in training, he/she will forfeit the MITT position. Residents may recommend themselves or be recommended by others.
The resident elected as MITTE and MITT cannot, while serving as MITTE and MITT, simultaneously belong to or hold a position in the Committee of Residents & Fellows, MIT Area Representative or Deputy Representative, Glaxo/SmithKline, Bristol-Myers Squibb, or SAMHSA or AstraZeneca fellowships.
Who do I contact?
Chanda Brooks at 703-907-8527 or by email at cbrooks@psych.org
How do I apply?
Nomination form