Psychology Internship

To apply, complete online application at www.appic.org

Psychology Internship Brochure (opens pdf for printing)

Pre-Doctoral Internship in Clinical Psychology 

Deadline:  Thursday, November 1, 2018

Internship Admissions, Support, and Initial Placement Data

Date Program Tables are updated: 7/18/2018

Briefly describe in narrative form important information to assist potential applicants in assessing their likely fit with your program. This description must be consistent with the program’s policies on intern selection and practicum and academic preparation requirements:

Applicants must be in good standing in a doctoral program in psychology in an accredited educational institution and must have completed at least two years of graduate study prior to the internship year. Applicants must have completed appropriate practica and be approved by their Director of Training as prepared for internship. Preference will be given to students from clinical psychology programs accredited by the American Psychological Association.

Does the program require that applicants have received a minimum number of hours of the following at time of application? If Yes, indicate how many:
Total Direct Contact Intervention Hours	N	Y	Amount: N/A
Total Direct Contact Assessment Hours	N	Y	Amount: N/A

Describe any other required minimum criteria used to screen applicants:

One factor to which we pay close attention is whether the training experiences that we provide are consistent with the needs and interests of the candidate, insofar as those needs and interests are expressed in the application. We especially welcome applications from minority group members.While the law of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts expressly prohibits asking for such information, those candidates who wish to provide this information will enable us to be consistent with valuable affirmative action policies.

Financial and Other Benefit Support for Upcoming Training Year*

Annual Stipend/Salary for Full-time Interns	22,880
Annual Stipend/Salary for Half-time Interns	N/A
Program provides access to medical insurance for intern?	Yes	No
If access to medical insurance is provided:
Trainee contribution to cost required?	Yes	No
Coverage of family member(s) available?	Yes	No
Coverage of legally married partner available?	Yes	No
Coverage of domestic partner available?	Yes	No
Hours of Annual Paid Personal Time Off (PTO and/or Vacation)	104 hours

Initial Post-Internship Positions
(Provide an Aggregated Tally for the Preceding 3 Cohorts)

	2014-2017
Total # of interns who were in the 3 cohorts	12
Total # of interns who did not seek employment because they returned to their doctoral program/are completing doctoral degree	0
	PD	EP
Community mental health center	0	0
Federally qualified health center	0	0
Independent primary care facility/clinic	0	0
University counseling center	0	0
Veterans Affairs medical center	4	0

Admission Policy

Interview Process

The interview dates for recruiting Intern applicants are:

• Tuesday December 11, 2018
• Friday January 4, 2019
• Tuesday January 8, 2019
• Friday January 18, 2019

Overview

Structure of the Internship

Faculty and Staff 

The University of Massachusetts Medical School and Worcester Recovery Center and Hospital offer a pre-doctoral internship in psychology. The program is accredited by the American Psychological Association. It is one of the oldest continuously offered internships in psychology in the country. 

The program offers four full-time funded internship positions that carry a stipend of $20,000 per year, subject to availability of funds. The program is a member of the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers and subscribes to its uniform notification procedures. 

There are several requirements and guiding principles we follow in this selection process:

Applicants must be in good standing in a doctoral program in psychology in an accredited educational institution and must have completed at least two years of graduate study prior to the internship year. Applicants must have completed appropriate practica and be approved by their Director of Training as prepared for internship. Preference will be given to students from clinical psychology programs accredited by the American Psychological Association.

We do not publish any minimum number of hours of assessment and intervention. We carefully review each application to see the “goodness of fit”, i.e., the match of your stated training goals and experience with what our internship has to offer. We do look closely at the breadth of practicum experiences an applicant has and how their doctoral training has prepared them to be trained at an intermediate to advanced level. We review the applicant’s coursework to see if the academic preparation is consistent with the type of training activities the intern will pursue.

The contact information for the Commission on Accreditation of the American Psychological Association is:

Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation
American Psychological Association
750 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002-4242
(202) 336-5979
apaaccred@apa.org

Requests for printed brochures should be emailed to:

John P. Terry, Ph.D.
Director of Psychology Intern Training
John.Terry@umassmemorial.org