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Becoming
a Member
Why
Become A Member?
The
Ohio Psychiatric Physicians Association is your professional association
in the state of Ohio. The OPPA focuses on all aspects of psychiatric
care and includes public, academic, and private practice psychiatrists,
as well as psychiatric residents.
Here
are some reasons:
- Maintains
a strong voice in the Ohio Legislature and state regulatory
agencies - advocating for the profession and our patients
- Provides
representation of psychiatry at the Ohio State Medical Association
- Participates
and provides leadership in coalitions with other mental health
professionals, patient and family groups in advocating for
access to quality care and ending stigma and discrimination
against patients and psychiatric treatments
- Provides
public education about psychiatric disorders by working with
the news media and disseminating information to consumers,
family members, and the general public
- Offers
quality CME programs through scientific meetings
- Provides
representation to the American Psychiatric Association
- Provides
you the opportunity to have input and participation through
committees and local OPA Chapters.
The
OPA is your advocate and your representative in these challenging
times. Without a strong and unified organization, who else will
advocate for the interests of psychiatry?
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Qualifications for Membership
The
APA and the OPPA are organizations composed primarily of medical
specialists who are qualified, or in the process of becoming
qualified, as psychiatrists. The basic eligibility requirement
is completion of a residency program (or currently enrolled
in an accredited residency training program) in psychiatry accredited
by the Residency Review Committee for Psychiatry of the Accreditation
Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME), the Royal College
of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPS©), or the American
Osteopathic Association (AOA). Applicants for membership must
also hold a valid medical license (exception: hold an academic,
research, or governmental position that does not require licensure),
and provide one reference who is an APA member.
The
APA has a dual membership requirement whereby APA members must
also be members of the district branch within whose jurisdication
they reside or practice. Likewise, to be an OPA member you must
also be a member of the APA.
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Categories
of Entry Membership
Members-in-Training
(MT): Physicians who have been accepted into a psychiatric residency
training program that is approved by the ACGME, RCPS©,
or AOA and remain enrolled therein. Residents enrolled in a
one-year primary care training program to be followed by an
approved psychiatric residency are eligible for Member-in-Training
status.
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Dues for 2006
Member-in-Training
(1st year waived): $ 30.
General Member: 1st year $130
2nd year $260
3rd year on $390
Fellow: $390
Life Member/Life Fellow/Life Assoc.:
Years 1-5 $260
Years 6-10 $130
11 and beyond Waived
APA:
Click here
for more information.
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CME Requirements
All
APA members in the active practice of psychiatry must participate
in at least 150 hours of continuing medical education activities
during a three year reporting period, of which a minimum of
60 hours must be in Category I CME activities.
Category
I activities are those programs sponsored or co-sponsored by
organizations accredited for CME and that meeting specific standards
of needs assessments, planning, professional participation and
leadership, and evaluation. The Physician's Recognition Award
of the American Medical Association satisfies APA CME requirements.
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How to Apply
If
you wish to apply for membership in the OPPA and APA or would
like more information, please contact:
Ohio
Psychiatric Physicians Association
1350 W. Fifth Ave., Ste 218
Columbus, OH 43212-2907
(614) 481-7555
or E-mail ohiopsych@ohiopsych.org
or
Call
the APA Office of Membership
703-907-7300
Do
not send payment in advance, you will be billed after enrollment
OPPA/APA
General Membership Application (APA web site):
http://www.psych.org/join_apa/ma/generalapp.pdf
Member-in-Training
Application (APA web site):
http://www.psych.org/join_apa/ma/apamit_brochureapp030304.pdf
Reinstatement:
Former members who apply for reinstatement are responsible
for all past national and district branch dues/assessments.
All financial obligations must be fulfilled prior to reinstatement
of membership. To find out if you owe back dues, contact the
APA Office of Membership at 703-907-7300.
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Transferring
District Branch Membership
A
member must transfer district branch affiliation when moving
his/her practice or residence from the jurisdictional area of
one district branch to another.
To
transfer your membership, contact the APA Office of Membership
703-907-7300 or to your former district branch. You will be
sent a transfer form for you to complete and return. You are
responsible for paying dues to the district branch on whose
rolls you appeared on the first day of January.
If
your DB dues are current and there are no outstanding ethics
complaints in your file, your transfer will be approved and
you will become a member of your new DB.
Retired
members are not required to transfer district branch membership
if you move; you may remain a member of the branch with which
you had been associated.
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