Previous Recipients

2007
Diversity Advisory Committee
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of California, Davis, California

2006
Psychiatric Institute for Medical Students
Department of Psychiatry
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada

2005
Department of Psychiatry
Mayo Clinic College of Medicine, Rochester, Minnesota

2004
Women's Mental Health Program -
University of Illinois, Chicago
Laura J. Miller, Training Director

2003
Intercultural Psychiatry Program -
Oregon Health & Sciences University, Portland, Oregon

2002
Utilizing an Affordable Telemedicine System in Residency Training -
Department of Psychiatry, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky

2001
The Missouri Psychotherapy Modules -
Department of Psychiatry, University of Missouri, Columbia

2000
The Scientific Approach in Psychiatry: Teaching Residents About and How To Do Research
State University of New York at Buffalo

The purpose of the program is to teach residents how to read the literature critically and to develop the critical thinking skills and core knowledge, in statistics and design, required to do research.

1999
Ethnic/Minority Psychiatric Inpatient Programs at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH)

The programs at SFGH, the major public hospital for treatment of acute psychiatric illness, are comprised of five inpatient psychiatry wards within which a special cultural/minority focus has been developed in order to meet the special needs of six significant and underserved minority groups found within the city of San Francisco: Asian, Latino, Black, AIDS/HIV, Gay/Lesbian and Women.

1998
Department of Psychiatry
University of California, Davis

The Department of Psychiatry of the University of California, Davis, through an educational collaboration with the Departments of Family Practice, Internal Medicine, and Pediatrics, developed several unique teaching programs combining primary care and psychiatry.

1997
Harvard Longwood Psychiatry Residency Training Program

The program is conjointly sponsored by three academic teaching hospitals, a public sector academic mental health center and the largest HMO in the region thus preparing the residents to function in a variety of health care environments.

1996
Department of Psychiatry
University of Ottawa

Established researchers in the department are linked with residents to foster the development of new researchers in psychiatry.

1995
Department of Psychiatry
Oregon Health Sciences University

In order to address the lack of psychiatrists working in rural areas and state mental hospitals, residents are given rotations, which prepare them to work in the public sector.

1994
Department of Psychiatry
University of Kentucky

Live drama is used to teach psychotherapy and communicate abstract constructs. Actual cases in psychodynamic literature are creatively adapted into scripts and then performed by professional actors.

1993
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Medical University of South Carolina in Charleston

A comprehensive system of community-based treatment, rehabilitation and support services for relevant public health training was developed.

Information about these award-winning programs is available from The College's Office in Chicago, Illinois.