Intern stipends are set by and paid through the intern’s primary placement.  Stipend levels vary within the Consortium.  Expected stipend levels for the 2010-2011 training year may be found in the descriptions of the Consortium agencies.

Parking arrangements are also the responsibility of each primary placement.  You may be required to pay for parking at either or both your primary and secondary placements. 

Only the VA primary placement offers health insurance as a benefit of employment.  However, interns at other sites may purchase student health insurance from Vanderbilt University at graduate student rates.  As interns do not have free use of the University’s Student Health Service they should expect to pay deductibles and co-payments that graduate students may be able to avoid.  To provide continuity of coverage, you may choose to extend your current insurance through the internship year if it is possible to do so.    

All Consortium interns are allowed a minimum of two weeks annual leave (vacation), two weeks of sick leave, and seven professional days (to be used for professional meetings and workshops, dissertation related activities, job interviews, etc.).  Arrangements for leave should be negotiated in advance with the relevant training sites except in cases of emergency.  Extended periods of absence due to serious illness, illness of a family member, etc., will need to be made up by extending the period of the internship in order to complete training requirements.

All Consortium interns have access to Vanderbilt University library resources, as well as the library and computer resources available at their training sites.