2012 APPIC Internship Application Thread

[LindsPsyD]

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Anyone received a rejection from Riverbend? I saw that they sent out an interview invitation. I'm just a little... confused because they interviewed me last year and I'm a better candidate this year (I sought out DBT experience to be more competitive for their track + dissertation + more hours, etc)... yet, no invite (but no rejection either). The other sites I interviewed with last year all offered to interview me again... I feel like if I don't get an interview there, that means they didn't like me as a person last year, which feels much worse than just someone rejecting me on paper.

 

[mshbe]

Has anyone else not heard from CHOP or Children's National yet?

 

[DoctorSiggy]

I feel like if I don't get an interview there, that means they didn't like me as a person last year, which feels much worse than just someone rejecting me on paper.

You can't take this stuff personal...... It has nothing to do with you "as a person." I am treating this process like dating, some girls (SITES) liked me and others didn't, I couldn't get every girl (SITE) I liked. But I got that one who liked me in return (MATCH day)...

 

[clinstudentinnc]

MUSC/ Charleston Consortium sent out invites on 11/21, and they still haven't sent out rejections. Are they actually waiting until 12/15 to let us know that we're out of the running, or were we just supposed to figure it out on our own?

All of my other sites have been pretty professional about offering interviews or rejections within a reasonable time frame, so I'm baffled by the one or two sites that just can't seem to be bothered.

MUSC does rolling invites. I just got an invite from them at the end of last week.

 

[psychiepsych]

it sounds like pace has extended both interviews and rejections; anyone else not hear from them either way? thoughts?

 

[serotonin]

Kindly-written mass email rejection from the Jesse Brown VA.

 

[erg923]

You can't take this stuff personal...... It has nothing to do with you "as a person." I am treating this process like dating, some girls (SITES) liked me and others didn't, I couldn't get every girl (SITE) I liked. But I got that one who liked me in return (MATCH day)...

I just turned to my wife and said "Honey, I wanted lots of different girls... but you're the one who said yes. "

Hey, has anyone seen where my wife went?

 

[LGymnast]

Kindly-written mass email rejection from the Jesse Brown VA.

Was this a track-specific mass email? I still have not heard from them.

 

[Reality1234]

i HAVE NOT HEARD ANYTHING FROM PACE :-(

 

[dharmapsy]

I just turned to my wife and said "Honey, I wanted lots of different girls... but you're the one who said yes. "

Hey, has anyone seen where my wife went?

ROFL- she went where I would go- the mall with your credit cards and then the bank first thing in the a.m.😀

 

[JockNerd]

Just wondering is anyone considering doing a non-appic internship if they don't match? And whether you are or not, what is the rationale behind your decision?

FYI: APA is moving toward recommending accreditation at the doctoral program and internship level for licensure (state/prov boards still decide, but they would likely go along with this). It's called the Model Licensing Act. EVERY other health profession from medicine to massage requires completion of accredited training and it's ridiculous for psychology not to. Going to a non-accredited internship or doc program is likely to become extremely limiting in the near future.

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2011/06/soe.aspx

 

[serotonin]

Was this a track-specific mass email? I still have not heard from them.

It was not track specific from what I could tell, no. I applied to the neuro track (but there was nothing regarding neuro in the email- it was a "dear applicant" and signed by the training director).

 

[erg923]

ROFL- she went where I would go- the mall with your credit cards and then the bank first thing in the a.m.😀

She does that anyway...

My massive VA internship stipend allows her to go to White House-Black Market and Nordstrom and try on everything...... and buy nothing.

 

[psychiepsych]

i HAVE NOT HEARD ANYTHING FROM PACE :-(

well at least we're in the same boat!🙄

 

[dharmapsy]

FYI: APA is moving toward recommending accreditation at the doctoral program and internship level for licensure (state/prov boards still decide, but they would likely go along with this). It's called the Model Licensing Act. EVERY other health profession from medicine to massage requires completion of accredited training and it's ridiculous for psychology not to. Going to a non-accredited internship or doc program is likely to become extremely limiting in the near future.

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2011/06/soe.aspx

Not having read the article yet-just off the cuff of my sleeve, so to speak. That move would have to be the biggest disservice they could do to students given that they haven't solved the internship shortage yet! Furthermore, the process for accrediting a doctoral program and internship site currently involves having a graduating class- what would happen to those students who went through the program first? No one would want to attend a non-accredited program if they couldn't get licensed, therefore there would be NO new internship or doctoral programs able to attain accreditation. There would have to be some major reworking of the entire system to make that plan work.

 

[dharmapsy]

FYI: APA is moving toward recommending accreditation at the doctoral program and internship level for licensure (state/prov boards still decide, but they would likely go along with this). It's called the Model Licensing Act. EVERY other health profession from medicine to massage requires completion of accredited training and it's ridiculous for psychology not to. Going to a non-accredited internship or doc program is likely to become extremely limiting in the near future.

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2011/06/soe.aspx

Ok, read the article, at the bottom:
1 The recently revised APA Model Licensing Act, which has been approved as APA policy, specifies an accredited doctoral program, but not an internship program.

Still not the best option as the first students through a new doctoral program still would not be able to get licensed--but, then again, maybe limiting the number of new programs would help slightly with the internship shortage.

 

[MsBella13]

FYI: APA is moving toward recommending accreditation at the doctoral program and internship level for licensure (state/prov boards still decide, but they would likely go along with this). It's called the Model Licensing Act. EVERY other health profession from medicine to massage requires completion of accredited training and it's ridiculous for psychology not to. Going to a non-accredited internship or doc program is likely to become extremely limiting in the near future.

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2011/06/soe.aspx

Interesting article, thanks for sharing!

Of course I'm sure we would all love for all internships to be APA-accredited, but they are not, and the truth is, waiting to be accepted into an APA-accredited internship is also extremely limiting for my near future. In my situation, I applied to equal APA and APPIC sites, and so far, all but one of the APA sites rejected me; and some of those APA sites were less competitive than some of the APPIC ones! So, am I supposed to postpone my future again for another year because of a change in licensure at the state level that MIGHT happen? I'll take my chances.

 

[Reality1234]

well at least we're in the same boat!🙄

I AGREE 😳

 

[dharmapsy]

She does that anyway...

My massive VA internship stipend allows her to go to White House-Black Market and Nordstrom and try on everything...... and buy nothing.

heeheeheeeheee- I know how she feels Thanks for the laughs, really needed those tonight 👍

 

[JockNerd]

Ok, read the article, at the bottom:
1 The recently revised APA Model Licensing Act, which has been approved as APA policy, specifies an accredited doctoral program, but not an internship program.

Still not the best option as the first students through a new doctoral program still would not be able to get licensed--but, then again, maybe limiting the number of new programs would help slightly with the internship shortage.

Everyone knows it's not ideal and will result in some major problems. But, the APA has bungled this so badly and handled it so ineptly for over a decade that salvaging it without jettisoning something is impossible now.

 

[dharmapsy]

Interesting article, thanks for sharing!

Of course I'm sure we would all love for all internships to be APA-accredited, but they are not, and the truth is, waiting to be accepted into an APA-accredited internship is also extremely limiting for my near future. In my situation, I applied to equal APA and APPIC sites, and so far, all but one of the APA sites rejected me; and some of those APA sites were less competitive than some of the APPIC ones! So, am I supposed to postpone my future again for another year because of a change in licensure at the state level that MIGHT happen? I'll take my chances.

Me too! And with any luck we'd be grandfathered in if we managed to get licensed before the state changed it's laws

 

[serotonin]

Not gonna venture to guess WHY this is so, but this internship thread has surpassed last year's internship thread in terms of views by over 50,000 views! And we're not even at December 15th yet! 😱

 

[49ners]

Napa State invite via email.

 

[mcs207]

Me too! And with any luck we'd be grandfathered in if we managed to get licensed before the state changed it's laws

That is what I'm thinking too. If I can't get an APA approved internship, then I will try to get licensed as soon as possible and pray that it won't impact me down the line. The truth is, my husand and I can't afford me to keep delaying my degree. 6 years total for a Ph.D. is long enough if you ask me.

I think the other factor for me is I don't see it impacting my long term career goals. I am planning to go into academia, but not an R1 research institution (going to one was bad enough). I would be very happy at a small liberal arts college where I can do my research at my own pace. I would also like to do some part-time counseling, perhaps for a local agency or in private practice. As of right now, I don't anticipate an APPIC internship barring me from either or those goals.

 

[marmot19]

Phone call earlier this evening to interview at the University of Tennessee (Memphis) Health Sciences Center, General Program (the official name of the internship site is the University of Tennessee Professional Psychology Internship Consortium).

Also received a mass rejection email from the VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System Psychology Internship.

So that's it for me, guys! I've heard back from all my sites--10 interviews, 5 rejections. I can't complain about that. And I've gotta say it's SOOOOOOO nice to have finally heard from every site and know one way or the other about interviews---now I can stop checking my email obsessively!! Best of luck to everyone who's still waiting to hear. Hopefully tomorrow holds good news!

 

[internshipapp]

Phone call earlier this evening to interview at the University of Tennessee (Memphis) Health Sciences Center, General Program (the official name of the internship site is the University of Tennessee Professional Psychology Internship Consortium).

Also received a mass rejection email from the VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System Psychology Internship.

So that's it for me, guys! I've heard back from all my sites--10 interviews, 5 rejections. I can't complain about that. And I've gotta say it's SOOOOOOO nice to have finally heard from every site and know one way or the other about interviews---now I can stop checking my email obsessively!! Best of luck to everyone who's still waiting to hear. Hopefully tomorrow holds good news!

Love that you ended with positive news!! Huge congrats!! Enjoy your interviews- I hope you find somewhere that REALLY excites you to rank #1 (and then match there)!

 

[Therapist4Chnge]

FYI: APA is moving toward recommending accreditation at the doctoral program and internship level for licensure (state/prov boards still decide, but they would likely go along with this). It's called the Model Licensing Act. EVERY other health profession from medicine to massage requires completion of accredited training and it's ridiculous for psychology not to. Going to a non-accredited internship or doc program is likely to become extremely limiting in the near future.

http://www.apa.org/monitor/2011/06/soe.aspx

This should probably have it's own thread, as it is an important topic. I totally agree with the push. Non-acred. programs have no place in doctoral education. Sites pursuing acred. is far different than programs that don't bother to pursue acred. I hope they can move in this direction for internship, but that would req. the APA to acred. far more sites, which may or may not be realistic.

 

[marmot19]

And I'd also just like to add that this forum has been really helpful for me as I've gone through the entire application and waiting process. I really appreciate the information, help, and support offered by all the members. It's made a very stressful process a little bit easier, and it's been really great to know that there are others out there who can relate to everything I'm going through. Again, best of luck to everyone still waiting, and congrats/good luck to all with interviews! Now we just have to get through Match Day....

 

[Quynh2007]

Phone call earlier this evening to interview at the University of Tennessee (Memphis) Health Sciences Center, General Program (the official name of the internship site is the University of Tennessee Professional Psychology Internship Consortium).

Also received a mass rejection email from the VA Sierra Nevada Health Care System Psychology Internship.

So that's it for me, guys! I've heard back from all my sites--10 interviews, 5 rejections. I can't complain about that. And I've gotta say it's SOOOOOOO nice to have finally heard from every site and know one way or the other about interviews---now I can stop checking my email obsessively!! Best of luck to everyone who's still waiting to hear. Hopefully tomorrow holds good news!

Congrats! I heard crickets today. I'm expecting 3 responses tomorrow, and 1 next week.

 

[marmot19]

Love that you ended with positive news!! Huge congrats!! Enjoy your interviews- I hope you find somewhere that REALLY excites you to rank #1 (and then match there)!

Thanks so much for the well wishes! Congrats on your interviews as well, hope you get good news tomorrow.

Congrats! I heard crickets today. I'm expecting 3 responses tomorrow, and 1 next week.

Thanks! And good luck to you tomorrow!

 

[nyprincess]

This should probably have it's own thread, as it is an important topic. I totally agree with the push. Non-acred. programs have no place in doctoral education. Sites pursuing acred. is far different than programs that don't bother to pursue acred. I hope they can move in this direction for internship, but that would req. the APA to acred. far more sites, which may or may not be realistic.

Well, there are psychology programs that APA won't accredit - simply because APA currently ONLY accredits programs in clinical, counseling, and school psychology. However, there are other areas to specialize in... these are areas that people tend to specialize in at the postdoctoral level, but there are some that believe if you want to specialize in a unique area of psychology - do so in a doctoral program, have coursework specifically addressing core theories, issues, and interventions specific to the specialty. Of course while also completing all course requirements currently required by APA for accreditation... So what are those programs supposed to do? Close down? The students should be forced to attend a clinical, counseling, or school psychology program and then have to wait until they reach the post-doctoral level to specialize in what they want? I don't agree with that! If APA accreditation is the way to go for all programs, then APA needs to broaden their accreditation to more than just those 3 areas. Just my opinion.

 

[The Hobgoblin]

Just got an invite from long island Jewish adult track. After 5 rejection in a raw, that's a refreshing and much appreciated change.
🙂

 

[JockNerd]

Well, there are psychology programs that APA won't accredit - simply because APA currently ONLY accredits programs in clinical, counseling, and school psychology. However, there are other areas to specialize in... these are areas that people tend to specialize in at the postdoctoral level, but there are some that believe if you want to specialize in a unique area of psychology - do so in a doctoral program, have coursework specifically addressing core theories, issues, and interventions specific to the specialty. Of course while also completing all course requirements currently required by APA for accreditation... So what are those programs supposed to do? Close down? The students should be forced to attend a clinical, counseling, or school psychology program and then have to wait until they reach the post-doctoral level to specialize in what they want? I don't agree with that! If APA accreditation is the way to go for all programs, then APA needs to broaden their accreditation to more than just those 3 areas. Just my opinion.

Specialization is it's own thing. Currently boards control that, i.e., the Neuro board says you need XYZ to be a neuropsychologist, other less major boards like sports psych have guidelines too. Part of the need for that to be post-doc is that there needs to be a way to re-specialize after you get your degree, as well as for expert boards to develop their own guidelines. APA only controls the basic acceditation, and to change that would mean that the APA's mandate as a legal accrediting body would have to change (which would be undying pain in the US government trying to get that through).

APA accreditation process is an insane process already, far more complicated than most professions (including medicine). Adding more to the accreditation process would be more burdensome; it's better to have the APA do the basic accreditation for competency in practice, and have the semi-external boards control specialties.

 

[nyprincess]

Specialization is it's own thing. Currently boards control that, i.e., the Neuro board says you need XYZ to be a neuropsychologist, other less major boards like sports psych have guidelines too. Part of the need for that to be post-doc is that there needs to be a way to re-specialize after you get your degree, as well as for expert boards to develop their own guidelines. APA only controls the basic acceditation, and to change that would mean that the APA's mandate as a legal accrediting body would have to change (which would be undying pain in the US government trying to get that through).

APA accreditation process is an insane process already, far more complicated than most professions (including medicine). Adding more to the accreditation process would be more burdensome; it's better to have the APA do the basic accreditation for competency in practice, and have the semi-external boards control specialties.

Still have to specialize by completing a postdoc (no getting around that as you need it to be licensed), however, much is lost if you wait until the post-doc to specialize, as in theories specific to the area - these are things learned in classes not in internship...

 

[PhD Intern App]

Has anyone else heard NOTHING from Jesse Brown? I applied to the "general" track and haven't heard a thing.

 

[05262012]

Hi all, I know it's kinda late to be thinking about this, but I was hoping to get everyone's thoughts on students from the same grad programs applying to a lot of the same internship sites. After we had all chosen our sites this year, there was mention that we should not apply to overlapping sites. Because it was so late in the game, we didn't pay much attention to that advice. However, we are noticing now that there are several sites that are inviting one or some of us but not all (only 2 to 4 total). One would think that if one of us meets the criteria to be invited for an interview then all of us would since our training is so similar. So I guess I'm just wondering if others have had similar experiences so that I can pass down the information to other students and/or do things differently next time if I don't match this year (hopefully not the case!!!!). Thanks!

 

[Franzean4]

So I know this is super cheesy but does anyone else feel like it's Christmas eve and you're a small child who just wants to go to bed so you can hurry up and wake up and get your presents? Because that's exactly how I feel right now waiting for the rest of my notifications tomorrow. I still have 8 sites to hear back from!

P.S. I live on the west coast so it's only 7:51, to early to go to bed? LOL😀

Good Luck to everyone tomorrow!!!

 

[teacup8186]

Has anyone else heard NOTHING from Jesse Brown? I applied to the "general" track and haven't heard a thing.

Ditto... NOTHING... 😕

 

[lonestarsky]

Has anyone else heard NOTHING from Jesse Brown? I applied to the "general" track and haven't heard a thing.

I applied to health psych and haven't heard either.

 

[internshipapp]

So I know this is super cheesy but does anyone else feel like it's Christmas eve and you're a small child who just wants to go to bed so you can hurry up and wake up and get your presents? Because that's exactly how I feel right now waiting for the rest of my notifications tomorrow. I still have 8 sites to hear back from!

P.S. I live on the west coast so it's only 7:51, to early to go to bed? LOL😀

Good Luck to everyone tomorrow!!!

Love this! It has a positive energy to it!!! Yay for positivity amongst the madness😛

 

[psyunknown]

So I know this is super cheesy but does anyone else feel like it's Christmas eve and you're a small child who just wants to go to bed so you can hurry up and wake up and get your presents? Because that's exactly how I feel right now waiting for the rest of my notifications tomorrow. I still have 8 sites to hear back from!

P.S. I live on the west coast so it's only 7:51, to early to go to bed? LOL😀

Good Luck to everyone tomorrow!!!

Haha I love this. It is definitely exciting to have this part of the process over. Good luck to everyone tomorrow!

 

[KTenn]

Hi all, I know it's kinda late to be thinking about this, but I was hoping to get everyone's thoughts on students from the same grad programs applying to a lot of the same internship sites. After we had all chosen our sites this year, there was mention that we should not apply to overlapping sites. Because it was so late in the game, we didn't pay much attention to that advice. However, we are noticing now that there are several sites that are inviting one or some of us but not all (only 2 to 4 total). One would think that if one of us meets the criteria to be invited for an interview then all of us would since our training is so similar. So I guess I'm just wondering if others have had similar experiences so that I can pass down the information to other students and/or do things differently next time if I don't match this year (hopefully not the case!!!!). Thanks!

My school only lets 2-3 students apply to each track of each program. During the summer we rank the sites we want to apply to and if you want to add/drop later you ask the DOT if there is room. Usually there is not a lot of overlap except for local sites in Florida. It works out well since some internships have been known to throughout applications if too many are received from one school.

 

[RayneeDeigh]

My school only lets 2-3 students apply to each track of each program. During the summer we rank the sites we want to apply to and if you want to add/drop later you ask the DOT if there is room. Usually there is not a lot of overlap except for local sites in Florida. It works out well since some internships have been known to throughout applications if too many are received from one school.

... I would kill my DCT if she tried telling me where I was allowed to apply. But my cohort only has five people in it so I guess it's not an issue.

 

[MonkeysUncle]

Got an invite to the University of Colorado School of Medicine at their Aging Center! Printed it out and put it on the fridge.....🙂

 

[05262012]

... I would kill my DCT if she tried telling me where I was allowed to apply. But my cohort only has five people in it so I guess it's not an issue.

Yeah, we had similar feelings in that there were a few sites that a few of us really liked so it seemed silly for some of us not to apply. We only have 5 applying from my program though too, and it still seemed to be an issue.

 

[ballab]

Got an invite to the University of Colorado School of Medicine at their Aging Center! Printed it out and put it on the fridge.....🙂

Congrats!! 🙂 May I ask if it was personalized or mass?

 

[member2222]

Got an invite to the University of Colorado School of Medicine at their Aging Center! Printed it out and put it on the fridge.....🙂

congrats! i'm waiting on primary care, was this track specific?

 

[MonkeysUncle]

Congrats!! 🙂 May I ask if it was personalized or mass?

Basically a mass email that had my name put into the form.

congrats! i'm waiting on primary care, was this track specific?

I dunno. It specifically mentioned the Aging Center...It looks like mainly a form letter that had the proper info switched in the right places.

 

[nyprincess]

Specialization is it's own thing. Currently boards control that, i.e., the Neuro board says you need XYZ to be a neuropsychologist, other less major boards like sports psych have guidelines too. Part of the need for that to be post-doc is that there needs to be a way to re-specialize after you get your degree, as well as for expert boards to develop their own guidelines. APA only controls the basic acceditation, and to change that would mean that the APA's mandate as a legal accrediting body would have to change (which would be undying pain in the US government trying to get that through).

APA accreditation process is an insane process already, far more complicated than most professions (including medicine). Adding more to the accreditation process would be more burdensome; it's better to have the APA do the basic accreditation for competency in practice, and have the semi-external boards control specialties.

FYI...


Non-APA accredited programs/universities:

Applied Biopsychology
New Orleans

Applied Developmental Psychology
Maryland - Baltimore
New Orleans

Basic Neuropsychology
CUNY - Queens

Clinical – Developmental Psychology
Bryn Mawr
Suffolk

Clinical Forensic Psychology
CUNY – John Jay

Clinical Neuropsychology
CUNY - Queens

Community & Applied Social Psychology
Maryland - Baltimore

Consulting Psychology
Alliant International

Educational Psychology
Northern Arizona
Wayne State

Experimental Psychology
Memphis

Industrial/Organizational
Akron
Tennessee

Learning Processes
CUNY - Queens

Neuropsychology
CUNY - Queens

Psychology & Law
Drexel

Rehabilitation Psychology
Wisconsin - Madison

 

[PhD Intern App]

FYI...


Non-APA accredited programs/universities:

Applied Biopsychology
New Orleans

Applied Developmental Psychology
Maryland - Baltimore
New Orleans

Basic Neuropsychology
CUNY - Queens

Clinical – Developmental Psychology
Bryn Mawr
Suffolk

Clinical Forensic Psychology
CUNY – John Jay

Clinical Neuropsychology
CUNY - Queens

Community & Applied Social Psychology
Maryland - Baltimore

Consulting Psychology
Alliant International

Educational Psychology
Northern Arizona
Wayne State

Experimental Psychology
Memphis

Industrial/Organizational
Akron
Tennessee

Learning Processes
CUNY - Queens

Neuropsychology
CUNY - Queens

Psychology & Law
Drexel

Rehabilitation Psychology
Wisconsin - Madison

Hello,
The internship at the University of Wisconsin, Departments of Psychiatry and Rehabilitation Medicine, IS APA accredited.