Events & Exhibits on the PRMS Blog

Psychiatrists and psychiatric residents took a break from their busy schedules recently for a 5K run and walk designed to help them get better acquainted with colleagues while promoting mental health awareness in the community. The Brooklyn Psychiatric Society’s second annual Fun Run, Walk & Meet, sponsored in part by PRMS, manager of a medical malpractice professional liab ...

In recognition of National Children’s Mental Health Awareness Day on May 7, PRMS staff took part in a service project by helping package gifts of joy in the form of boxed craft kits to promote healing for children in area hospitals. This year marked the 10th anniversary of the Awareness Day, which focuses on raising awareness about the mental health needs of America’s youngest ...

  The journey to help increase awareness and raise funds to improve the lives of roughly 60 million people in the U.S. living with mental illness got a boost recently when we sponsored a team from the Bronx District Branch of the American Psychiatric Association (APA). This team raised more than $5,500 for the National Alliance on Mental Illness’ NAMIWalk NYC 2014. Imagine thi ...

Our May 4th seminar in New York City is now filled. With a topic like “Risk Management as an Anxiolytic: Case Studies in Risk Reduction” it’s no surprise that it has sold out. Due to the limited room capacity, we are unfortunately unable to accommodate everyone. In fact, once registrations began to quickly come in, we worked with the Intrepid to secure a bigger room so that mor ...

On behalf of the PRMS employees who represented PRMS during the APA Annual Meeting, I thank all of you who made it a success. Many of you visited our hospitality suite to ask questions about your coverage and to apply for new coverage. Our risk management seminar was well attended, and our expanded use of the audience response system (ARS) by attendees was a hit. The course and ...

PRMS will be at this year’s APA Annual Meeting, as it has been for every annual meeting since 1987. We truly do look forward to this meeting all year, because we know that we will see so many of our clients, both long-term and brand-new, face-to-face. We have posted our locations and agenda on our website, but in short, you can attend one of our CME risk management seminars on ...

Why am I writing about Scott McKenzie’s 1967 popular music hit? I’m not. I’m writing about the APA Annual Meeting, and I’m hoping you’ll be attending so that you can come see us. We are finalizing details at this point, and we’ll be publicizing our activities in San Francisco over the next few weeks. At the moment, the following are definite: ·         We are presenting a ½ day ...

Right after Labor Day each year, “meeting season” starts. From early September through mid-November, it seems every psychiatric organization holds a meeting; our goal is to attend as many of them as possible. In the past nine weeks, PRMS staff attended more than 50 meetings throughout the country.  These included APA district branch meetings, US Psychiatric Congress, Northern C ...

We compiled three documents related to child and adolescent psychiatry to distribute to our customers at the AACAP meeting in San Francisco: (1) a resource list of articles and websites on Youth Violence and Homicidal and Suicidal Behavior; (2) a list of the top 50 professional liability points for child and adolescent psychiatrists, and (3) a collection of our own risk managem ...

We invite you to join us October 22, 2012 in San Francisco, CA for our upcoming risk management seminar on Current Liability Issues in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry: Opportunities to Minimize Risk. ...