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Vanderbilt University-Department of Veterans Affairs
Internship in Professional Psychology

REQUIREMENTS FOR APPLICANTS

The following are the minimum requirements an applicant must fulfill to be considered for an internship in the Consortium:

  1. The applicant must be actively enrolled in an academic program leading to a doctoral degree in professional psychology or have completed a doctoral degree in a non-professional field of psychology and be certified by an appropriate official as being enrolled in an organized respecialization program requiring the completion of the equivalent of pre-internship training in professional psychology.
  2. If in the United States, the academic program must be housed in a regionally accredited, degree-granting institution. If in Canada, the institution must be publicly recognized as a member in good standing by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada.
  3. The applicant must have completed at least three years of graduate academic work in a program meeting the requirements described above.
  4. The applicant must have a minimum of 550 Total Intervention and Assessment Hours as defined by the AAPI. This training must be of such a nature and amount as to provide the applicant with the experience needed to have a reasonable opportunity to succeed in the Consortium placement for which the applicant is being considered.
  5. The applicant must be certified by the program’s Director of Clinical Training as being ready for internship.
  6. American citizenship and an APA accredited graduate program are required for a primary placement in the VA Tennessee Valley Healthcare System. These are nationwide VA requirements. Neither of these factors is a necessary requirement for the Consortium’s other primary placements.
Please review the sections titled “Additional Criteria for Acceptance,” under the descriptions of the Consortium agencies in which you are most interested for additional criteria specific to these agencies.