The Council on Medical Education and Lifelong Learning

The Council works to promote high-quality teaching of psychiatry to medical students and encourage the application to medical school of individuals with an interest in human behavior. * The Council considers and makes recommendations regarding all aspects of graduate medical education in psychiatry, including but not limited to development and maintenance of die highest quality psychiatric training program planning, curriculum development, career development, residency teaching, interface with medical student education, primary care and other medical specialty education, and postresidency fellowship training. * The Council now has primary oversight for planning, coordinating, directing, and evaluating all continuing education efforts and activities of the Association, meeting the requirements for Category 1 CME credit. Since that initial meeting in May there have been teleconferences every 2 weeks with Dr. Schatzberg, APA staff, the SPC Chair and Co-Chair, along with various SPC members and consultants, to coordinate efforts to manage sessions and keep abreast of any developments that may impact the success of the annual meeting.