2015 Post-Doc Interview Thread

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Hi everyone, I'm starting this thread for 2015 post-doc application interview and rejection notifications. Isn't it fun that we get to do this all over again? ;)

-Site name
-Date notified
-Invite or rejection
-Track
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone)
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc)
- Interview dates offered - may not be necessary unless it's an in-person interview, use your judgment

I'll keep a master list of invitations and rejections as I receive them. Feel free to post on the thread or PM me.

Master List (updated 1/20/15 at 8:37 AM)

Interviews
Akron Children's Hospital - Pediatric Psychology Fellowship 12/23 via personal email, interviews 1/26 or 1/30
Albuquerque VA - family track 1/12, no information on interviews provided by user
Atlanta VA Medical Center 1/8 via mass email, interviews 2/5, 2/6, 2/9
Barrow Neurological Institute 1/12 via personal email, interview 2/3 at INS
Battle Creek VA - all 4 tracks 1/15 via mass email, interviews 2/3, 2/4, 2/5, 2/10 and 2/11
Bay Pines VA - Neuropsych 1/16 via personal email, INS interviews will occur on 2/3/15 and 2/4/15. Phone/VTEL/in person interviews will occur on 1/26/15; 1/28/15 and 1/29/15 between 1:00-3:00 p.m. EST.

Boston VAMC - Advanced Addiction Fellowship 1/5, interview TBD
Boston VAMC - LGBT Health Track 1/15 via email, interviews 1/28, 1/30, 2/4, and 2/6
Central Arkansas VA - PTSD 1/16 via personal email, interviews 2/2 and 2/6

Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory School of Medicine - Pediatric Psychology 1/9 via personal email, interviews 2/2, 2/6, 2/9
Children's Medical Center Dallas - Pediatric Health Psychology 1/9 via personal email, interviews 1/26, 1/29, 1/30
Children's National Medical Center - Pediatric Neuropsych 1/13 via personal email, interviews at INS in Denver
Children's National Medical Center - Pediatric Blood & Cancer Pediatric Psychology 1/13 via phone call, interviews 1/23, 1/26, 1/29
Cornell Postdoc/Adult Track. 1/14 via phone call. Interview dates January 26, 27
Dartmouth - behavioral medicine clinical post doc 1/15, interviews on Fridays

Duke Medical Center - Adult 1/9 via phone, interview 1/9
Durham VAMC - PCMHI 1/16 via personal email, interviews 1/30/15, 2/2/15, 2/3/15 (in person, or phone/video)
G.V. Sonny Montgomery VAMC (Jackson VAMC) - Neuropsych 1/14 via mass email, interviews Thursday 1/29, Friday 1/30 and Thursday 2/5

Hampton VAMC 1/7 via email, interviews 2/5, 2/6, 2/9 (in-person or phone)
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center - Adult CBT 1/16 via email, interviews 2/2, 2/9
Harvard Partners Consortium - Neuropsych 12/23 via mass email, interviews 1/7, 1/14, 1/21, 1/28
Hines VA (Chicago) - LGBT Mental Health track 1/13 via email, interviews 1/28, 2/4, 2/5, and 2/11
James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital (Tampa VA) - Rehabilitation - 1/6 via personal email, interview dates open
James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital (Tampa VA) - Neuropsych - 1/5 via personal email, interview dates open (phone)
Johns Hopkins - Pediatric Clinic Child/Adolescent Fellowship via personal email, interview 1/9
Kaiser Permanente-North Bay Consortium Adult Track - Santa Rosa 12/17 via phone, interviews throughout January
Kaiser Permanente- Vallejo. Rehabilitation Center - Neuropsych 1/9 via phone, interview 1/20 and several other dates not specified
Kennedy Krieger Institute, Pediatric Neuropsych- 1/16 via email (personalized), interviews at INS
Loma Linda VA - PTSD (but appears notification was for all tracks) 1/13 via email, interviews 1/27 and 1/29
McGuire VA MIRECC 12/19 via personal email, interview 12/22
Menninger Clinic 1/7 via email, interviews 1/26, 1/28, 1/30, 2/2, 2/4, 2/6
Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center (Houston VA) - Anxiety Disorders 12/17 via mass email, interviews 1/26, 1/30, or 2/2
Milwaukee VA - LGBT Healthcare Track 1/16 via email, interviews 1/26, 1/29, 2/4, and 2/5
Minnesota State Operated Forensic Services - Forensic 1/9 via personal email, interviews 2/2, 2/4, 2/5
MUSC - Behavioral Medicine (Clinical) Post Doc 12/16, interviews 12/29, 1/5, 1/9, 1/12, 1/23, 1/26
New York-Presbyterian Hospital (NYPH)/Weill Cornell Medical College – Westchester Division, Clinical Neuropsych- via phone call on 12/29, interview days 1/15 and 1/20
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine - Neuropsych 1/7 via personal email, interview 1/27
NYU World Trade Center Health Program 1/9 via personal email, interview 1/16
Philadelphia VA MIRECC 1/20 via personal email, interviews February 10, 13, 16, 18 or 20
Pittsburgh MIRECC 1/9 via personal email, interviews TBD (phone or in-person)
Salem VA - Gero 1/13 via personal email, interviews 1/23 or 1/26
Salem VA - PTSD 1/11 via personal email, interviews 1/23 or 1/26
San Diego VA/UCSD - Anxiety, PTSD, LGBT Mental Health, Women's Health Research, Home-Based Primary Care, Couples/Family 1/14 via phone, interview 2/2
San Francisco VA Medical Center - LGBT Healthcare 12/22 via phone and email, interviews 1/8, 1/14, 1/16, 1/22, 1/28
San Francisco VA Medical Center - Women's Mental Health and Trauma via email and phone, interviews 1/2, 1/6, 1/12, 1/14, 1/16
San Francisco VA Medical Center - PTSD/SUD via 12/16 via phone, interviews 1/6, 1/12
San Francisco VA Medical Center - PTSD 12/16 via phone, interviews 1/6, 1/12
San Francisco VA Medical Center - General Mental Health CBOC Santa Rosa 12/18 via phone, interviews 1/5, 1/13
San Francisco VA Medical Center - research post doc 1/15, late January dates
South Texas VA - Substance Use and Homelessness 1/14 via mass email, interview 1/27

Stanford University - Pediatric Psychology 1/5 via personal email, interview 1/29
Stanford University - Adult General 12/17 via email, interviews 1/12, 1/20, 1/30, 2/2
Stanford School of Medicine - Pain Clinic - 12/23 via persoal email, interviews 1/16 or 1/2
Stony Brook University Hospital, Clinical Neuropsych- via email (generic) on 1/2, interview days January 15th, January 22nd
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Pediatric Neuropsych- 1/6 via e-mail (generic), interviews at INS
Tampa General Hospital - Rehabilitation 1/14 via phone, interviews 1/31 and 2/2 (phone or in-person)
Texas Children's Hospital - Pediatric/Clinical Child 1/16 via personal email, interview 2/2

University of Minnesota Behavioral Medicine Fellowship 1/9 via personal email, interview 1/27 but they said they could be flexible
VA Baltimore - clinical trauma post doc 1/15, interviews 2/5 and 2/13
VA Bedford (Edith Nouse Rodgers) - clinical primary care behavioral health post doc 1/15, multiple dates in Jan. & Feb

VA Boston HCS - Postdeployment Readjustment - 12/31 via personalized e-mail, multiple interview dates with options for phone interviews
VA Boston HCS - Substane Abuse 12/31 via personalized e-mail, multiple interview dates with options for phone interviews
VA Boston HCS - Dual Diagnosis Track 1/6 via personalized email, multiple interview dates with options for phone interviews
VA Boston - behavioral medicine clinical post doc 1/15, late January dates; also phone interviews
VA Boston - General Mental Health 1/14 via personal email, interviews 1/22, 1/26, 1/27, 1/28, 1/29, 2/4, 2/5
VA Boston - Interprofessional Mental Health Care 1/14 via personal email, interviews 1/22, 1/26, 1/27, 1/28, 1/29, 2/4, 2/5
VA Connecticut Healthcare System - Clinical Health Newington campus 1/9 via personal email, interview 1/16

VA New Mexico HCS (Albuquerque) - PTSD Track 1/9 via personalized email, telephone and in-person interview options between 1/15 and 2/6
VA North Texas HCS (Dallas VA) - Substance Abuse Track 12/19 via phone, telephone or in-person
VA North Texas HCS PTSD Track 12/22 via mass email, interviews by telephone or in-person 1/22 and 1/29
VA Palo Alto - Psychosocial Rehabilitation 1/9 via personal email, interviews 1/27, 1/28
VA Palo Alto - PTSD 1/9 via mass email, interviews 1/23 and 1/30
VA Palo Alto - Couples/Family Systems 1/12, notification method and interview dates not provided by user
VA Palo Alto - trauma research post doc 1/15, phone interviews only
VA Pittsburgh - Gero 1/16 via email, interviews 1/29,30 or 2/5 (in person or phone)
VA Portland - MIRECC 1/16 via personal email, phone interviews

VA Puget Sound Health Care System, American Lake - Gero 1/10 via personal email, interviews 1/26-1/30
VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle - Couples/Family Psychology Fellowship 1/8 via personal email, interviews 1/20, 1/28
VA White River Junction - clinical primary care and mental health post doc 1/15 via phone, interviews 2/5 or 2/9
VISN 2 Center for Integrative Health (CIH) MIRECC VAMC (Buffalo/Syracuse, NY) Research Post Doc 12/12, interview 1/8
VISN-2 Center of excellence/ Canandaigua/University of Rochester 1/9 via phone, interviews 01/21, 02/04
West Los Angeles VA - Trauma 1/7 via email, interviews 1/23, 1/26
West Virginia University - Neuropsych 1/10 via personal email, interviews Tues and Wed morning at INS
St. Jude's - Pediatric Psychology 1/6 via email, interview at INS

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Rejections
Children's Healthcare of Atlanta - Pediatric Psychology 1/6 via email
Children's Hospital Colorado - Hematology/Oncology & Solid Organ Transplant 1/16 via mass email
Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital - Pediatric Psychology 1/9 via personal email
Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial VA (Bedford, MA) - Neuro 1/15 via mass email
Mayo Clinic Rochester - Neuro 1/8 via personal email
Philadelphia MIRECC 1/12 via personal email
Phoenix Children's Hospital Pediatric Neuropsycho- 1/14 via email (personalized)
Salt Lake City VA - Integrated Primary Care 1/15 via personalizezd mass email

San Francisco VA - PTSD/RV, PTSD/SUD 12/19 via mass email
Sepulveda VA - PTSD/SUD 1/3 via mass email
VA Boston/National Center for PTSD, Women's Health Division - 1/16 via personal email
VA Portland - Primary Care/Mental Health Integration 1/12 via mass email
VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle - SMI 1/15 via personal email
VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle - MIRECC 1/15 via personal email
 
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Received via PM:

-Site name: Harvard Partners Consortium
-Date notified: 12/23
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: Neuropsych
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): mass email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in-person
- Interview dates offered: 1/7, 1/14, 1/21, 1/28
 
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No problem! I've been checking SDN compulsively since this process started anyway so I might as well make it useful to others ;)
 
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MUSC Behavioral Medicine (Clinical) Post Doc - Interview invite came 12/16, dates: Monday, December 29, Monday, January 5, Friday, January 9, Monday, January 12, Friday, January 23, or Monday, January 26.

VISN 2 Center for Integrative Health (CIH) MIRECC VAMC (Buffalo/Syracuse, NY) Research Post Doc - Interview invite came 12/12 for a 1/8 interview

Boston VAMC - Advanced Addiction Fellowship - interview invitation extended 1/5, interview TBD
 
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Johns Hopkins: Pediatric Clinic Child/Adolescent Fellowship
Notification received: 12/22/2014 via personal email
Only one interview date provided 1/9/2015

Akron Children's Hospital: Pediatric Psychology Fellowship
Notification received: 12/23/2014 via personal email
Interview dates: 1/26/2015 or 1/30/2015
 
Some more via PM:

-Site name: Stanford University
-Date notified: 1/5/15
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: Pediatric Psychology
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): personal email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in-person
- Interview dates offered: 1/29

-Site name: San Francisco VA Medical Center
-Date notified: December 22nd
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: Interprofessional LGBT Healthcare
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): Phone and email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): In-person
- Interview dates offered: January 8th (Thursday), 14th (Wednesday), 16th (Friday), 22nd (Thursday), and 28th (Wednesday)
 
Updated the master list! I'm going to bold new entries, so all of the ones from today are bolded right now.
 
Via PM:

-Site name: San Francisco VA
-Date notified: 12/19/14
-Invite or rejection: rejection
-Track: PTSD/RV, PTSD/SUD
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): mass email

-Site name: Sepulveda VA
-Date notified: 1/2/15
-Invite or rejection: rejection
-Track: PTSD/SUD
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): mass email
 
Some more via PM (seems like it's people's preferred method of notifying :))

Site: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta
Date notified: 1/6
Invite or rejection: Rejection
Track: pediatric neuropsychology
How notified: Email

Site: St. Judes
Date notified: 1/6
Invite or rejection: Invite - interview at INS
Track: pediatric neuropsychology
How notified: Email

- Site: Stanford Psychiatry
-Date notified: 12/17/14
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: Adult-General Track
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in-person
- Interview dates offered: 1/12, 1/20, 1/30, 2/2

- Site: San Francisco VA
-Date notified: 12/17/14
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: Women's Mental Health and Trauma
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): email and phone
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in-person
- Interview dates offered: 1/2, 1/6, 1/12, 1/14, 1/16
 
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Some more:

-Site name: San Francisco VA
-Date notified: 12/16
-Invite or rejection: invitation
-Track: PTSD/SUD
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): phone
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in-person
- Interview dates offered: 1/6, 1/12

-Site name: San Francisco VA
-Date notified: 12/18
-Invite or rejection: invitation
-Track: General Mental Health CBOC Santa Rosa
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): phone
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in-person
- Interview dates offered: 1/5, 1/13

-Site name: Kaiser Permanente-North Bay Consortium
-Date notified: 12/17
-Invite or rejection: invitation
-Track: Adult Track- Santa Rosa
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): phone
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in-person
- Interview dates offered:throughout january
 
-Site name: West Los Angeles VA
-Date notified: 01/07/15
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: Trauma
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in-person
- Interview dates offered: 1/23, 1/26

-Site name: San Francisco VA
-Date notified: 12/16
-Invite or rejection: invitation
-Track: PTSD
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): phone
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in-person
- Interview dates offered: 1/6, 1/12

-Michael E. DeBakey VA Medical Center (Houston VA)
-Date notified: 12/17
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: Trauma and Anxiety Disorders
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): mass e-mail
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): In person
- Interview dates offered: 1/26, 1/30, or 2/2
 
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-Site name: Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine
-Date notified: 1/7/15
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: Neuropsych
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): personal email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in-person
- Interview dates offered: 1/27
 
Site name: Mayo Clinic Rochester
Date notified: 01/08/15
Invite or rejection: Rejection
Track: Neuro
How notified: Personal email
 
Sorry for the lack of updating the master list, I had a super busy day yesterday. In the meantime, here are two I received yesterday via PM:

-Atlanta VA Medical Center
-1/8/2015
-Invite
-Mass email
-in-person
- Feb 5th, 6th, 9th

Site name: VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle
-Date notified: 1/8/15
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: Couples/Family Psychology Fellowship
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): personal email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): phone
- Interview dates offered: 1/20 & 1/28
 
Via PM:

Site name: VA Palo Alto
-Date notified: 1/9/15
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: Psychosocial Rehabilitation
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): personal email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in-person
- Interview dates offered: 1/27 & 1/28
 
Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital
Date Notified: 1/9/2015
Rejection/Invite: Rejection
Track: Pediatric Psychology
How notified: Personal Email
 
Via PM:

-Site name: Children's Healthcare of Atlanta, Emory School of Medicine
-Date notified: 1/9/15
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: Pediatric Psychology
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): personal email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in-person
- Interview dates offered: 2/2, 2/6, 2/9

-Site name: Children's Medical Center Dallas
-Date notified: 1/9/15
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: Pediatric Health Psychology
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): personal email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in-person
- Interview dates offered: 1/26, 1/29, 1/30
 
-Site name: VA Puget Sound, American Lake
-Date notified: 1/10/15
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: Gero
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): Personal email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): In-person
- Interview dates offered: 1/26-1/30

Has ANYBODY heard from the San Diego VA? Apps were due almost a month ago...and not submitted through the APPA CAS so I can't even blame it, surprisingly.
 
Has ANYBODY heard from the San Diego VA? Apps were due almost a month ago...and not submitted through the APPA CAS so I can't even blame it, surprisingly.

I got an email from them a few days after the deadline, confirming the receipt of my application. Haven't heard anything else since then.
 
My friends and I applied there and we haven't heard anything either aside from the confirmation that they received our apps. Feels like it's taking forever! I applied to a research fellowship and they applied to clinical ones.
 
Okay, we'll I'm glad it's not just me then. Misery loves company :)
 
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-Site name: Minnesota State Operated Forensic Services
-Date notified: Friday, 1/9
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: Forensic
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): Personal email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): In-person
- Interview dates offered: 2/2, 2/4, 2/5
 
-Site name: Pittsburgh MIRECC
-Date notified: Friday, 1/9
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: N/A
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): Personal email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): In-person or by phone
- Interview dates offered: TBA

-Site name: VISN-2 Center of excellence/ Canandaigua/University of Rochester
-Date notified: Friday, 1/9
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: N/A
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): Phone call
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): In-person
- Interview dates offered: 01/21, 02/04


-Site name: Duke Medical Center
-Date notified: Friday, 1/5
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: Adult
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): Phone call
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): Phone
- Interview dates offered: 1/09
 
-Site: Kaiser Permanente- Vallejo. Rehabilitation Center
-Date notified: 1/9/15
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: Neuropsych
-How notified: phone
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in-person
- Interview dates offered: 1/20 and several others that I don't recall
 
Via PM:

-Site name: Menninger Clinic
-Date notified: 1/7
-Invite or rejection: invite!
-Track: NA
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in person
- Interview dates offered - may not be necessary unless it's an in-person interview, use your judgment: 1/26, 1/28, 1/30, 2/2, 2/4, 2/6

-Site name: Hampton VAMC
-Date notified: 1/7
-Invite or rejection: invite!
-Track: Women's Mental Health and Trauma
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in person or phone
- Interview dates offered - may not be necessary unless it's an in-person interview, use your judgment: 2/5, 2/6, 2/9
 
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Updated the master list! It's getting pretty long - we clearly have some rockstars on this forum :)

Also, just curious if anyone else here applied to the Houston MIRECC. Haven't heard from them and am wondering if no news is not good news. ;)
 
Site name:James A. Haley Veterans' Hospital (Tampa VA)
-Date notified: 1/6
-Invite or rejection: invite
-Track: Rehabilitation
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): Personal email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in person or phone
- Interview dates offered - Open
 
Just saw this thread. I apologize for the delay in posting these.

Site name: Stanford School of Medicine
-Date notified: 12/23/14
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: Pain Clinic
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): personal email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in-person
- Interview dates offered: 1/16 or 1/23

Site name: McGuire VA MIRECC
-Date notified: 12/19/14
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: N/A
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): personal email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in-person
- Interview dates offered: 12/22/14

Good luck everyone.
 
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Albuquerque VA - family track (no specific info on interviews given)
 
Site name: University of Minnesota Behavioral Medicine Fellowship
-Date notified: 1/9/2015
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: none
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): personal email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in-person (Skype option offered)
- Interview dates offered: 1/27 but they said they could be flexible.
 
-Site name: Salem VA
-Date notified: 1/13/15
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: Gero
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): Personal email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): In-person
- Interview dates offered: 1/23 or 1/26
 
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Oh, thanks for unintentionally reminding me! Got this yesterday via PM:

Salem VAMC
-Date notified: 1/11
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: PTSD
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): personal e-mail
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): In person
- Interview dates offered: 1/23 or 1/26
 
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Children's National Medical Center
Pediatric Neuropsych
Invite via personal email

Interviews at INS in Denver
Children's National Medical Center
Pediatric Blood & Cancer Pediatric Psychology
Invite via phone call
Interviews 1/23, 1/26, 1/29
 
Some more via PM:

NYU World Trade Center Health Program
Notified: 1/9/15
Invited
Personal email
In person interview 1/16/15

Nationwide Children's Hospital
notified 1/13 via personal email
Pediatric Neuropsychology
Interview at INS in Denver
 
Some more via PM:

Site name: Palo Alto VA
-Date notified: 1/9/15
-Invite or rejection: invite
-Track: PTSD
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): mass email but with my name
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in-person
- Interview dates offered: 1/23 and 1/30

-Site name: Loma Linda VA
-Date notified: 1/13/15
-Invite or rejection: invite
-Track: Looked like all tracks, but I applied to PTSD
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): mass email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in-person
- Interview dates offered: 1/27 and 1/29

-Site name: Philadelphia MIRECC
-Date notified: 1/12/15
-Invite or rejection: rejection
-Track: N/A
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): personal email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): N/A
- Interview dates offered: N/A

-Site name: Portland VA
-Date notified: 1/12/15
-Invite or rejection: rejection
-Track: Mental Health/Primary Care Integration
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): mass email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): N/A
- Interview dates offered: N/A

-Site name: VA Palo Alto
-Date notified: 1/12/15
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: Couples/Family Systems

VA North Texas HCS (Dallas VA) Substance Abuse Track
-invite received 12/19 by telephone
-telephone and in-person interview options, and I don't remember all the date options

VA North Texas HCS PTSD Track
-invite received 12/22 by mass e-mail
-telephone and in-person interview options 1/22 and 1/29

VA Boston HCS Postdeployment Readjustment and Substance Abuse Tracks
-invite received 12/31 by personalized e-mail
-telephone and in-person interview options, multiple dates

VA Boston HCS Dual Diagnosis Track
-invite received 1/6 by personalized e-mail
-telephone and in-person interview options, multiple dates

VA New Mexico HCS (Albuquerque) PTSD Track
-invite received 1/9 by personalized e-mail
-telephone and in-person interview options between 1/15 and 2/6
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): personal email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in-person
- Interview dates offered: 2/4

-Site name: Hines VA (Chicago)
-Date notified: January 13th
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: LGBT Mental Health track
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): Email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): In-person, or phone if needed
- Interview dates offered: 1/28, 2/4, 2/5, and 2/11
 
Via PM:

Cornell Postdoc/Adult Track. Interview dates January 26, 27. Phone call.
 
Congrats to everyone so far on all the interviews! I was hoping to reach out to anyone who received a Tampa VA interview. I just got an invite and am a bit confused by the open dates idea. Has anyone responded and gotten any insight as to how long the interviews are? I'm trying to decide if it makes sense to schedule an in person interview.

Anyone who's had an "open date" interview offer for a postdoc, please feel free to chime in!
 
-Site name: San Diego VA/UCSD
-Date notified: 1/14/15
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: Anxiety, PTSD, and MST(MIRECC)
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): phone call
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): In-person, or phone if needed
- Interview dates offered: 2/2/15
 
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-Site name: San Diego VA/UCSD
-Date notified: January 14th
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: LGBT Mental Health track
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): Phone
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): In-person, or phone if needed
- Interview dates offered: 2/2
 
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-Site name: South Texas VA
-Date notified: 1/14/15
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: Substance Use and Homelessness
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): mass email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): Phone
- Interview dates offered: 1/27/15​
 
Via PM:

-Site name: San Diego VA/UCSD
-Date notified: January 14th
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: LGBT Mental Health track
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): Phone
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): In-person, or phone if needed
- Interview dates offered: 2/2
Same, but for Home-based Primary Care track
 
Site name: Edith Nourse Rogers Memorial VA (Bedford, MA)
Date notified: 1/15
Invite or rejection: Rejection
Track: Neuro
How notified: mass email


Site name: Barrow Neurological Institute
Date notified: 1/12
Invite or rejection: Invite
Track: General Neuropsych
How notified: personal email
Type of interview: in person at INS
Interview dates offered: 2/3
 
Some more via PM:

VA Palo Alto - trauma research post doc (phone interviews only)
VA San Francisco - research post doc (late January dates)
VA Boston - behavioral medicine clinical post doc (late January dates; also phone interviews)
VA Baltimore - clinical trauma post doc (Feb 5 or 13)
VA Bedford (Edith Nouse Rodgers) - clinical primary care behavioral health post doc (multiple dates in Jan. & Feb.)
VA White River Junction - clinical primarcy care and mental health post doc
Dartmouth - behavioral medicine clinical post doc (Fridays)

-Site name: San Diego VA/UCSD
-Date notified: January 14th
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: LGBT Mental Health track
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): Phone
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): In-person, or phone if needed
- Interview dates offered: 2/2

-Site name: San Diego VA
-Date notified: 1/14
-Invite or rejection: invite
-Track: Couples/family
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): phone
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in–person or phone
- Interview dates offered: 2/2


-Site name: VA Connecticut Healthcare System
-Date notified: 1/9
-Invite or rejection: invite
-Track: Clinical Health Newington campus
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): personal email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in-person
- Interview dates offered: 1/16

-Site name: Boston VA
-Date notified: 1/14
-Invite or rejection: invite
-Track: General Mental Health
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): personal email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in–person
- Interview dates offered: 1/22, 1/26, 1/27, 1/28, 1/29, 2/4, 2/5

-Site name: Boston VA
-Date notified: 1/14
-Invite or rejection: invite
-Track: Interprofessional Mental Health Care
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): personal email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in–person
- Interview dates offered: 1/22, 1/26, 1/27, 1/28, 1/29, 2/4, 2/5

-Site name: VA Puget Sound Health Care System, Seattle
-Date notified: 1/15
-Invite or rejection: rejection
-Track: SMI
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): personal email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): N/A
- Interview dates offered: N/A

-Site name: VA Puget Sound (Seattle)
-Date notified: 1/15
-Invite or rejection: Rejection
-Track: PTSD/MIRECC
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): Personal email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): N/A
 
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Has anyone heard anything from VA Long Beach? Their deadline was 12/15. I emailed the training director to see if they had a sense of their timeline (trying to combine trips), and got an auto-responder saying she's out on leave...'till December 1, 2014. It's very odd.
 
-Site name: White River Junction VA
-Date notified: 1/15
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): Phone
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): In-person
- Interview dates offered: 2/5 or 2/9
 
Site name: Battle Creek VA
-Date notified: 1/15/15
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track: All 4 I think
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): mass email
-Type of interview (phone, in-person, etc): in-person with other optiosn
- Interview dates offered: February 3, 4, 5, 10 and 11
 
-Site name: Salt Lake City VA
-Date notified: 1/15/15
-Invite or rejection: Rejection
-Track: Integrated Primary Care
-How notified (mass email, personal email, phone): personalized mass email
 
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