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the second class to complete the three-year graduate residency training at the Psychoanalytic Clinic for Training and Research of Columbia University received Certificates of Training in Psychoanalytic Medicine on June 22. This class, which started at a time when most physicians were still in the Service, consisted of one woman and six men, five of whom enrolled immediately following their demobilization.
The ceremony was held in the Board Room of the New York State Psychiatric Institute and Hospital, attended by Dr. John B. Truslow, Assistant Dean in Charge of Graduate Studies of the College of Physicians and Surgeons; Dr. Nolan D. C. Lewis, Executive Officer of the Clinic, Director of the Psychiatric Institute, and Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry; Dr. Sandor Rado, Director of the Clinic; Dr. George E. Daniels, Associate Director of the Clinic; and members of the staff. Dr. Truslow presented the Certificates to the doctors after delivering a short address.
Extension of occupational therapy to all patients whom it can benefit in the 26 hospitals and schools of the New York State Department of Mental Hygiene has been made possible by the provision of 209 new positions, Dr. Frederick MacCurdy, Commissioner of Mental Hygiene, revealed. He added that the positions were available as of the first of June, through funds recommended by Governor Dewey in his 1948-49 budget and subsequently approved by the state legislature.
Address inquiries to: George L. Cantzlaar, Director of Public Relations, Department of Mental Hygiene, State Office Bldg., Albany.
With the approval of Governor Dewey, Dr. Frederick MacCurdy, Commissioner of Mental Hygiene, appointed an advisory council to his department. This advisory council, representing various aspects of community activity in the fields of psychiatry, social welfare,