UMMS Psychology Network

More than 120 clinical and research psychologists are employed at UMMS/UMMMC, in the departments of Psychiatry, Medicine, Pediatrics, Family Medicine, Neurology and Surgery. They are integral contributors to the missions of the University, serving as basic and applied researchers, therapists, diagnosticians, consultants, and teachers. 

Psychologists at UMMS/UMMMC span a wide range of specialties, such as child psychology, health psychology and behavioral medicine, neuropsychology, forensic psychology, addictions, and developmental disabilities. They serve patients as individual providers or members of clinical teams, and they develop service delivery models and consult to health and mental health systems of care. They perform research to investigate questions of neuroscience, etiology of disorders, treatment and assessment methods, mental health law and ethics, and health policy. They serve at administrative levels and on a range of the University’s faculty committees. 

UMMS/UMMMC supports a number of psychology training programs. Its Clinical Psychology Pre-Doctoral Internship Program at Worcester State Hospital has been APA-accredited for over 50 years, as has the Pre-Doctoral Program at Worcester Youth Guidance Center. Its Forensic Psychology Post-doctoral Training Program is rated among the top in the nation. Post-doctoral training programs also are available in Family Medicine, Behavioral Medicine, and the Center for Mental Health Services Research. In addition to providing training in psychology, our psychologists play an important role in training medical residents in Psychiatry and other departments, as well as students in the University’s medical school.

An inter-departmental “Psychology Network,” managed by the Director of Psychology and a Psychology Steering Committee, functions to enhance psychologists’ clinical, research and training contributions throughout the School and Hospital. Subcommittees of the Psychology Network focus on coordination of psychology training across programs within the school, communications between psychologists, development of connections between clinical and research psychologists, as well as attention to their career development and enhancing the value of psychologists to the University’s health care and research objectives.