University of Washington School
of Medicine
Psychology
Internship Program
APPLICATION PROCEDURES AND ELIGIBILITY
2013-2014
Application year
( UPDATED 02/01/13)
Please
review the following instructions carefully.
We utilize the online APPIC Application for Psychology Internships (AAPI). Please do not send any materials separately to our program. Consistent with APPIC policies, the only materials accepted will be those uploaded with the AAPI application. Our deadline for applications is NOVEMBER 1st. For questions about the ONLINE AAPI please contact APPIC http://www.appic.org/
Our psychology resident
selection process is designed to ensure a fair review of all applications. Applications
are rated independently by at least two faculty psychologists. Ratings are made
on the quality of academic and clinical training and performance, research potential,
personal characteristics, and the apparent goodness of fit between the applicant's
interests and our program. Competitive applicants typically
have completed or nearly completed dissertations prior to coming into the internship,
at least through the data collection process. We accept applicants only from
APA or CPA accredited programs and strongly prefer graduates in Ph.D. clinical
or counseling psychology programs that have a scientist-practitioner or clinical
scientist orientation. The applicant rating process begins in November.
We will make every effort possible to notify applicants of their status as soon
as possible. Please, do not email or call the program to inquire about
your application status unless you think there is a problem. Response
time from November 1st and for about a week after that date will be slow as
we process applications.
Applicants still under consideration after December 15th will be invited to our Open House to be held on Tuesday, January 7, 2014. As mentioned above, you will receive an e-mail with your invitation and Open House information. We coordinate our Open House date with other APA approved internships in this vicinity, e.g. Seattle VA and Western State Hospital. Dates and times for other internship programs' Open Houses should be confirmed with that site.
If you are invited,
we encourage you to come to Open House so that you can get the best possible
information about our program and how it might fit your training needs. We offer
individual appointments for meetings with faculty in all tracks the afternoon
of Open House. Please note that we do not require attendance at Open House or
that applicants travel to Seattle for personal interviews to match with us.
However, we would like the opportunity to meet with applicants who are still
under consideration by phone or Skype prior to submitting ranking lists. These
additional individual contacts provide applicants with more information about
the program in terms of their individual interests and needs, and allow us to
get to know applicants better to evaluate the "goodness of fit" with
our program in terms of applicant training interests, background and goals.
We encourage applicants to take advantage of the individual meetings with faculty
members during the afternoon of Open House, or to set up phone calls if attendance
at our Open House is not possible. We believe these individual meetings provide
both the applicants and our program faculty with information that is helpful
in determining whether our internship is a good choice for an applicant's training
needs. Just as applicants take all available information into account in ranking
programs, all contacts with applicants (including individual meetings) during
Open House or in other contexts provides information that we as a program may
use in determining rankings of applicants. This Internship site agrees to abide
by the APPIC policy that no person at this training facility will solicit, accept,
or use any ranking-related information from any psychology resident applicant.
The Adult Track will offer appointments between 1 and 5 PM. To make
an appointment to meet with Adult Track Faculty the afternoon of the Open House
please contact the Training Director and Adult Track Coordinator Joan Romano,
Ph.D. at psyintrn@u.washington.edu
AFTER December 15th but no later than December 22nd.
The Behavioral
Medicine/NP Track will offer appointments the afternoon of the Open House.
To make an appointment to meet with members of the Behavioral Medicine/NP
Track Faculty please contact Alice Kim, Administrative Coordinator evonise9@uw.edu
AFTER December 15th but no later than December 22nd.
For questions about the Behavioral Medicine/NP Track please contact Myron
Goldberg, Ph.D., ABPP-CN, the Track Coordinator.
Dr. Goldberg's e-mail is goldbm@u.washington.edu
and his phone number is 206 616-9443.
The Child Track offers appointments with Child Track Faculty between 1 PM and 5 PM. Applicants who would like to make an appointment to meet with a Child Track Faculty member on the day of the Open House should contact Gretchen Gudmundsen, Ph.D., the Child Track Coordinator, for an appointment no later than December 21st. Her e-mail is gretchen.gudmundsen@seattlechildrens.org and her phone number is 206-987-5497.
The Internship will attempt to accommodate requests for visits by prospective applicants from all tracks who do not attend our Open House, but opportunities to evaluate our training resources will be much more limited. Prospective applicants can also potentially meet with members of our faculty at many professional meetings.
If you match with us, we will make every effort to take your preferences into account if there is a choice of rotation sites in your track. However, we reserve the right to assign rotations to meet the constraints of our funding sources. Your appointment may be subject to certain eligibility requirements. If you match with our program you will be asked to provide information on any criminal history or conviction record at the beginning of the internship year as part of a required background check. All offers of internship are contingent upon successful completion of a criminal background check. All matched applicants must provide documentation of current immunization status and meet all other medical center health requirements, such as TB testing which will be done here at the Medical Center prior to beginning any clinical activities.
Applicants to
the Behavioral Medicine/Neuropsychology Track, please note the following:
Four of 5 stipends in the Behavioral Medicine/Neuropsychology track are funded
with federal grants and have eligibility requirements. To receive this funding,
applicants must be U.S. citizens or nationals or have permanent resident status.
The eligibility requirements will be taken into account in our ranking process
and may affect our ability to rank applicants who do not meet these requirements.
There are also service payback agreements for the RSA Rehabilitation Services Administration* federal funding associated with 3 stipends in this track. Applicants who are eligible for federal funding and who match with us are asked to agree to accept this funding if offered and sign a payback agreement if they match with us in this track. The agreement will require a period of time following training (two years for each full or part-time stipend funded) agreeing to provide service in certain public service settings or to populations deemed eligible by the granting agency. In our prior experiences with funding stipends through this grant mechanism, these requirements are generally met without significant difficulty or hardship for residents. Over a previous 20 year period of having trainees involved in such payback agreements, we are not aware of situations in which this has restricted career or location opportunities for our graduates. Applicants are encouraged to contact Dr. Myron Goldberg (goldbm@uw.edu) if they have any concerns about the payback agreement.
*The information in this link pertains only to only certain stipends within the Behavioral Medicine Track mentioned above. RSA Manual (RSA Rehabilitation Services Administration )
Matched candidates are notified of acceptance in accordance with APPIC guidelines, via the APPIC Internship Matching Program . For information on the National Matching Service please see http://www.natmatch.com/. This Internship site agrees to abide by the APPIC policy that no person at this training facility will solicit, accept, or use any ranking-related information from any psychology resident applicant.
Our sincere best wishes for a successful match! Thank you for your interest in our program.
A reminder: our deadline for applications is NOVEMBER 1st.
For the AAPI Application and/or questions about the AAPI contact APPIC: http://www.appic.org/
For Internship
Program questions contact:
Joan M. Romano,
Ph.D.
Department
of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Washington School of Medicine
Box 356560
1959 N.E.
Pacific Street
Seattle, WA 98195-6560
psyintrn@u.washington.edu
(Please
note: Reference letters should not be sent separately
to Dr. Romano. UPLOAD them with your online application. We require 3 letters
of reference but will accept 4 letters if you wish to add them to your online
application)
For other
questions contact the Program Office:
Program Coordinator, Psychology Internship Program
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
University of Washington School of Medicine
Rm. BB1619
Health Sciences Building/Box 356560
1959 N.E.
Pacific Street
Seattle, WA 98195-6560
Phone: (206) 543-7576 FAX: (206) 543-9520 E-mail: UW School of Medicine Psychology Internship
Program(psychsom@u.washington.edu)
APPLICATION MATERIALS:
All materials should be included with the online APPIC materials. Nothing should
be sent separately to our program. The only materials accepted will be those
uploaded with the APPI application.
Standard ONLINE APPIC application form (the AAPI) (available at www.appic.org)
For the diversity question on the APPI application which reads, "Please describe your experience and training in work with diverse populations. Your discussion should display explicitly the manner in which multicultural/diversity issues influence your clinical practice and case conceptualization", please do more than list your experiences.
Our Programs APPIC/NMS program TRACK codes:
General Adult
Psychology
(APPIC/NMS program code = 161913)
General Child
Psychology
(APPIC/NMS program code = 161912)
Behavioral Medicine/Neuropsychology
(APPIC/NMS program code = 161914)