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The establishment and maintenance of standards for the training of physicians in psychoanalysis is a function of the Board on Professional Standards, as defined in the By-laws of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
Only physicians are eligible for training in the practice of therapeutic psychoanalysis in the approved training institutions of the American Psychoanalytic Association.
An applicant for training must have creditably fulfilled the following formal requirements:
He shall have been graduated from a Class A medical school or from a foreign medical school of equivalent rating, as approved by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association.
He shall have served one year's internship at a hospital approved by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association, or shall have had similar clinical experience in a foreign hospital with equivalent rating.
An applicant shall have completed at least one year's full-time work in psychiatry in a hospital offering training approved by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals of the American Medical Association