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Internship in Professional Psychology |
If, after reviewing this
website, you are interested in applying to the
Consortium please read this section carefully and
follow the application procedures outlined below.
The Consortium's application and selection
process has been designed to be in accord with the
policies and procedures developed by the Association of Psychology
Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC), including
participation in the Match. All applicants
must register for the Match using the online
registration system on the Match website at www.natmatch.com/psychint. If you
apply for this internship, you are expected to
submit all your application materials via the APPIC
online application system. Go to the APPIC
website at www.appic.org and click on the AAPI (APPIC
Application for Psychology Internship) Online link.
Completed internship applications are due in
November each year; this year the due date will be Monday, November 1,
2011. All application materials must be
submitted and received by us on or before this date.
All application
elements (#1-6) should be submitted using the AAPI
Online system. Follow all instructions
accompanying the AAPI Online to either enter your
information directly, or upload your documents
(#1-3). We encourage all CVs to be uploaded as
Microsoft Word (version 2003 or earlier) or Adobe
Acrobat files. Only the transcript (#4) should
be mailed in hard copy form to the AAPI Online
application address.
Please note that, due
to the high volume of e-mails sent during the
application season, you will not receive a
confirmation e-mail from us that your application
materials have been received. You can check on
the AAPI Online system if your application is complete
and if your DCT and letter writers have completed
their parts (#5-6). We will notify you by email
on or before December 15th of your
interview status.
Application Requirements
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1. Cover letter: In
a separate line above the body of your cover letter
please list the Consortium agencies to which you are
applying. The Consortium has five programs to
which you may apply. These are listed at the end
of this section with the accompanying match
numbers. Do not rank order your
choices. Your cover letter should indicate how
these choices fit with your training interests and
goals.
2. All elements of the
AAPI Online general application.
3. Curriculum Vita.
4. Consortium
Supplemental Information Form. The Consortium’s
Supplemental Information Form may be found on this
Website in the Documents to Download
Section.
5. Transcripts of
graduate work. The transcripts should cover all
post baccalaureate course work. You should mail
one official copy of all graduate transcripts to the
AAPI Online application address at:
AAPI Online Transcription Department
PO
Box
9117
Watertown,
MA 02471
6. Verification of AAPI
by your doctoral program through the DCT Portal of
the AAPI Online System.
7. Submit at least three
and no more than four letters of recommendation
from faculty members or practicum supervisors who know
your clinical as well as your research work
well. At least one must be from an academic
faculty member, and at least one from a clinical
supervisor. Letter writers should upload an electronic
copy to the Reference Portal of the AAPI Online
system.
Representatives from
the Consortium sites will review the completed
internship applications looking for applicants whose
interests and training objectives are compatible with
the training experiences each site has
available. The selection process is coordinated
by the Consortium Training Committee. Applicants
are accepted into a particular primary placement at a
site that is deemed congruent with the applicant’s
training interests. It is, therefore, important
that applicants delineate their training goals and
objectives clearly on the application or in the
cover letter and indicate in the cover letter and
Supplemental Information Form which Consortium
site(s) are of interest to them.
After screening the application
materials, the Consortium faculty will contact, by
phone, letter or e-mail, applicants to be invited for
interviews. It is the faculty’s intention to
inform all applicants of their interview status by
December 15. If you are strongly interested in
our program, and have not received an invitation for
an interview, you may contact by phone or email the
designated contact person for the site in which you
are the most interested and request information about
your status.
The Consortium has
established the following interview dates for this
year.
- December 5,
2011/Monday
- December 6,
2011/Tuesday
- December 15,
2011/Thursday
- December 16, 2011/Friday
- January 9,
2012/Monday
- January 10,
2012/Tuesday
- January 19,
2012/Thursday
- January 20, 2012/Friday
The faculty member who contacts you will work with you
to schedule an interview on one of these dates.
Depending upon your expressed interests you may be
invited to interview at more than one Consortium
agency, in which case we will work to arrange the
interviews within the same two day period and schedule
them so they do not conflict. You are welcome to
interview at more than one agency, as long as you are genuinely
interested in each of the agencies as a potential
primary placement. Do not accept an invitation
to interview and do not schedule that choosing to interview
at more than one site may require an overnight stay
depending upon the scheduling discussed above.
If you are interested in an interview at only one
site, faculty may choose, at their discretion, to
schedule the interview on a date different from those
listed. If you cannot be here on any of the
scheduled dates, you may be able to arrange an
interview on an individual basis with a site in which
you are interested; however, the faculty cannot
guarantee to be available at other times.
Experience has shown
that applicants to Child and Adolescent Psychiatry are much less likely to
have an interest in another primary placement than
are applicants to the other agencies.
Therefore, applicants who are interested only in a primary placement
at Child and Adolescent Psychiatry may negotiate an
interview date and time with Dr. Kirsten Haman
without regard to the schedule above.
A personal or phone
interview is not a required part of the
application process; however, an interview is
beneficial in that it brings you to the attention of
the Consortium faculty and provides you with more
information about the Consortium’s program than can be
gleaned from this website alone. A review of our
selection process showed that since the computer match
has been in effect, only two applicants who did not
interview in person were on the ranked lists submitted
by the Consortium to National Matching Services.
Those applicants initially scheduled interviews but
subsequently withdrew for pressing personal reasons.
Secondary
Placement Selection takes place after the
beginning of the internship year and plays no
role in decisions about acceptance as a Consortium
intern. During the first week of the internship,
interns are provided an orientation to the Consortium
and its component agencies, including all available
secondary placement training experiences.
Secondary placement assignments are made by the
Consortium Training Committee after a careful
consideration of the intern’s expressed preferences,
the intern’s overall training needs and objectives as
developed jointly by the intern and faculty, and the
availability of supervisory resources and workload.
The
Vanderbilt-Department of Veterans Affairs Internship
in Professional Psychology is a member of the
Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship
Centers (APPIC) and adheres to the Association’s
policies (which may be found on the web at www.appic.org)
regarding internship offers and acceptances. It
is our intention to be in full compliance with both
the letter and the spirit of the APPIC policy.
The Consortium will abide by the APPIC policy
that no person involved with the internship will
solicit, accept or use any ranking-related information
from any intern applicant.
Each primary placement
within the Consortium is listed in the match as a
program within the Consortium internship and has a
separate match number. The VA Tennessee Valley
Healthcare System has two numbers, one for the General
and one for the Neuropsychology Track. In
ranking your choices for the match, you are encouraged
to include more than one Consortium agency on the
ordered list you submit to National Matching Services
if that is a true reflection of your interests.
If you have indicated an interest in more than one
consortium agency, and more than one agency believes
you would fit well with their program, you may be
included on more than one of the rank order lists the
Consortium sends to NMS.
The match numbers for the
Consortium Agencies are as follows:
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Adult Psychiatry |
156612 |
| Child and Adolescent Psychiatry | 156614 |
| Psychological and Counseling Center | 156617 |
| VA TVHS General | 156618 |
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VA TVHS Neuropsychology |
156619 |
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