Resident and New Practitioner Committee

The Resident and New Practitioner Committee is responsible for representing and providing service to residents, fellows, new practitioners and residency directors. Some of the primary goals of this committee are to increase the visibility of the profession, recruit students into residencies in cooperation with the student committee, increase the number of residencies and provide membership value to residents, fellows, residency directors and new practitioners.

You can review information on the current Committee Members and their Charges by downloading the PDF version.

Charges to the Resident and New Practitioner Committee

  1. By July 30, identify residency program directors who are not CPNP members and encourage them to join CPNP and sponsor their residents’ CPNP membership.
    Metric: Achievement of 50% join rate among non-member, contacted program directors.
  2. Market psychiatric pharmacy residency training to students through experiential learning directors by March 1 of each year and to PGY1 residents through program directors by August 1 of each year.
    Metric: Minimum of 2 contacts with ELDs and Program Directors either by mail and/or email.
  3. By August 15, 2011, identify needed modification to residency directory to allow residency directors to self-report the number and type of available psychiatric/neurologic rotations. Metric: Availability of modifications for use in September 2011 residency directory update.
  4. By September 1 of each year, solicit updates of Psychiatric Pharmacy residency information for the CPNP residency directory.
    Metric: 75% of current programs complete updates by September 30.
  5. By September 1 of each year, survey Psychiatric Pharmacy residency directors to include the following: number of applicants, number of filled positions, accreditation status, funding source, number of graduated residents from previous year, career placement of graduates, PGY1 / PGY2 status.
    Metric: 75% survey completion rate and reporting of results to CPNP membership (in January Mental Health Clinician) and ASHP as appropriate. 
  6. By December 31 of 2011, complete implementation of recommended changes to enhance CPNP website to engage and serve new practitioners.
    Metric: Announcement of availability in Mental Health Clinician.
  7. Initiate dialogue with health care systems (e.g., Kaiser-Permanente, Genoa Health Care, Blue Cross/Blue Shield) to encourage development and funding of new psychiatric pharmacy residencies and/or possible partnerships with existing programs to increase numbers of residency positions.
    Metric: Identification of a mailing/distribution list and development of an electronically distributed information piece to provide pertinent information. (Try to get these organizations to fund accreditation-eligible residencies within their organizations or other established programs.)
  8. Coordinate efforts to increase quality neuropsychiatric residencies with ASHP and AACP. Metric: Outreach to each and develop a plan of action.
  9. Participate in CPNP Residency Booth at ASHP Midyear Clinical Meeting in December of each year.
    Metric: Maintain a sign in list of booth visitors to track attendance of both students and residency candidates.
  10. By June 30 of each year, update residency director toolkit and FAQ on the CPNP website. Metric: Announcement in MHC.

Charges to All Committees

  1. By June 30, 2011, as appropriate to each committee, appoint a liaison to the quarterly focus group to participate both as a CPNP member and as a representative of the committee’s interests.
  2. By June 30, 2011, submit committee recommendations regarding programming, workshops and roundtables to Program Committee. Note that all suggestions will be considered but not all can be accepted.
  3. Submit committee recommendations regarding possible member and non-member products and services to the Publications and Online Services Committee. Note that all suggestions will be considered but not all can be completed.
  4. Send a liaison to the quarterly focus group to participate both as a CPNP member and as a representative of the committee interests.
  5. Support The Mental Health Clinician by submitting timely content for publication as necessary, recommending relevant authors and sources as possible, and providing feedback as requested.
  6. As appropriate to committee efforts and planned scope of work, develop survey questions to include in the CPNP fall member needs assessment.
  7. As a committee and as individual members, support CPNP by:
    • Nominating individuals for leadership positions
    • Nominating individuals for awards
    • Contributing to and expanding the Shared Resources section of the website.
    • Participating in membership activities such as membership polls, the CPNP list, surveys, poster session, poster awards, etc.