752 In 1942 we(I) reviewed psychiatric education by reporting the work sponsored by the Council on Medical Education and Hospitals, special courses given by certain private psychiatric clinics, training programs organized by Massachusetts, New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio and Minnesota, and the newly organized postgraduate program of the Committee on Psychiatry in Medical Education of the American Psychiatric Association. At present all of these programs are considerably curtailed by the lack of teaching personnel. The need for a more extensive organization of psychiatric education, which would supplement the work given by the states already noted, had been recognized for some time, but little was done until 1939 when the Committee on Psychiatry in Medical Education of the American Psychiatric Association sent a questionnaire to all state hospital superintendents inquiring whether they would be interested in supporting a postgraduate program designed to serve as an educational stimulus to their staff men and to aid them in meeting the requirements of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. The response of the hospital superintendents in those states which did not already have organized postgraduate training was enthusiastically in favor of the program. On the basis of these results, the Council of The American Psychiatric Association instructed the chairman of the Committee on Psychiatry in Medical Education to seek financial aid for the proposed program. The Rockefeller Foundation graciously made available a grant for six postgraduate institutes. Five of these institutes have been completed, but the sixth, scheduled at San Antonio in September, I , was cancelled because so many men interested in postgraduate training had been absorbed by the