2016-2017 APPIC Internship Interview Thread

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me9898 said:
Vanderbilt Consortium
VA Tennessee Healthcare System
Invitation - mass email
Interview dates: 12/5, 12/12, 12/16, 1/9, & 1/12
And they're using a doodle poll!
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Was this invite for all tracks at the VA?
 
Institute of Living/Hartford Hospital (Child Track)

-Invitation

-Notified 11/23/16

-Mass email

-12/9, 12/16, 1/6, 1/13, and 1/20


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Central Iowa VA (Des Moines)
Invite
Notified 11/23/16
Personal-ish email
Interviews: 1/5 or 1/12
 
Institute of Living/Hartford Hospital
CBT Track
Invite
Mass email 11/23
Interviews: 1/3, 1/10, 1/17
 
tx_clinicalPhD said:
Also got University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) - Department of Psychiatry
Invitation
Mass Email
11/23/16
Adult Track
Possible Interview dates: January 9th and 27th

Any advice for how you handle it if you're already booked on possible dates that a site has offered? I have two other great interviews on those dates, so I sent an email to UIC asking if they would be willing to set up an alternative date or means of interviewing. I feel like canceling or trying to move another interview would be disrespectful to those who contacted me first, but I also would really like to go to UIC.

This process sucks.
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It's been a couple years since I was going through the application process, but I found sites to be very accommodating. I agree that you probably don't want to cancel or move an interview you've already scheduled, but if you let the new site know that you're already booked on the available dates, they might let you come in on another day. I even had one site add an interview day because so many people were booked up by the time they sent out their invitations. If all else fails, you can see if somebody would be willing to trade with you. In the end, if a site isn't understanding about all of this craziness, you might not want to be there.
 
Mount Sinai St. Luke's
Child Track
Invite
Mass email 11/23
Interviews: 12/15 or 12/16 (email stated that all Child Track interviews will take place on these dates)
 
SUNY Upstate Medical Center
Invite
Child Track
Personal email 12/23
Interviews in Dec and Jan

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jls12h said:
Was this invite for all tracks at the VA?
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It didn't specify so I'm not sure. I applied to the general track so it may have just gone out for that.
 
- VA Central Iowa (Des Moines)
- Invite
- Notified 11/23/2016
- Personal E-mail
- Interview for 1/5 and 1/12
 
Here are updates on sites that I haven't seen posted yet on the forum, or maybe I just missed the listing. Nevertheless, in case helpful:

Yale University School of Medicine/Psychology Section, Department of Psychiatry
11/15/16
Phone call

Fulton State Hospital
11/15/16
Mass email

Also I incorrectly stated that VA St. Louis Health Care System/Psychology Internship (11/22/16) sent out personal emails, they didn't, it was a mass email (my bad sorry!)

Wishing everyone great luck with this process and a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday!
 
eremitestar said:
It's been a couple years since I was going through the application process, but I found sites to be very accommodating. I agree that you probably don't want to cancel or move an interview you've already scheduled, but if you let the new site know that you're already booked on the available dates, they might let you come in on another day. I even had one site add an interview day because so many people were booked up by the time they sent out their invitations. If all else fails, you can see if somebody would be willing to trade with you. In the end, if a site isn't understanding about all of this craziness, you might not want to be there.
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I am in a similar boat. One of my top sites offered me a very specific time on a date I'd already booked with another great site. This process is very stressful. 🙁
 
Rutgers University Behavioral Health Care in Newark, NJ

Personal email 11/23

Only one interview date January 11

I applied to the correctional track, and the email indicates that, but it sounds like all tracks interview together and then those applying to the correction rotation can interview the prison after the interview.

No time for self care during this stressful time lol
 
RTKR said:
Here are updates on sites that I haven't seen posted yet on the forum, or maybe I just missed the listing. Nevertheless, in case helpful:

Yale University School of Medicine/Psychology Section, Department of Psychiatry
11/15/16
Phone call

Fulton State Hospital
11/15/16
Mass email

Also I incorrectly stated that VA St. Louis Health Care System/Psychology Internship (11/22/16) sent out personal emails, they didn't, it was a mass email (my bad sorry!)

Wishing everyone great luck with this process and a wonderful Thanksgiving Holiday!
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Which track at Yale?
 
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Has anyone heard from any federal prisons other than Tallahassee after completing the USA jobs app?
 
jls12h said:
Was this invite for all tracks at the VA?
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I applied to two tracks and got the same mass email but they didn't specify which track I was being interviewed for
 
YogiDrD said:
Has anyone heard from any federal prisons other than Tallahassee after completing the USA jobs app?
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I filled it out for 7 of them and haven't heard anything yet
 
-Trenton Psychiatric Hospital
-Invite
-11/23/16
-personal voicemail
-option of interview dates 1/6; 1/10; 1/17; and 1/24
 
As others have posted, I was offered an interview date with the Nebraska Consortium for the Nebraska Medicine Paychology Department track for January 6th. If anybody has a different date and is interested in Jan 6th I would love to trade. I had another interview already scheduled on that date, but also really like this program.
 
-Site: Sarah Reed Children's Center
-Track (if applicable): NA
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Date notified: 11/22
-How notified: Phone Call
-Interview date: 1/6 or 12/16
 
hopefully this is safe to say, but assuming that all the training directors will be busy eating loads of food over Thanksgiving break and not busy judging our applications, let's all be relatively stress free for the next 4 days and enjoy lots of good food!!! Happy thanksgiving everyone!
 
coldcutcombo said:
hopefully this is safe to say, but assuming that all the training directors will be busy eating loads of food over Thanksgiving break and not busy judging our applications, let's all be relatively stress free for the next 4 days and enjoy lots of good food!!! Happy thanksgiving everyone!
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As someone who strives for (read: consistently fails to achieve) some semblance of work-life balance, I'm reminding myself that if I DO hear from a site before Monday, it doesn't bode well for THEIR work-life balance or ability to promote mine! I guess that narrative is my current coping strategy 🙂 happy holiday everyone!
 
In response to what Yale track contacted applicants for interviews, I heard from the Connecticut Mental Health Center placement.
 
Has anyone heard from Western Psych/Pitt Psychiatry Department yet? I saw on their website that they were planning to extend interview invites on the 22nd, but I did not hear anything. I'm assuming this means I did not receive an interview invitation, but am still curious if anyone else has heard anything!
 
RTKR said:
In response to what Yale track contacted applicants for interviews, I heard from the Connecticut Mental Health Center placement.
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Thank you! Congrats and best of luck! I applied to a different track...we will see!
 
feelings_doctor said:
As someone who strives for (read: consistently fails to achieve) some semblance of work-life balance, I'm reminding myself that if I DO hear from a site before Monday, it doesn't bode well for THEIR work-life balance or ability to promote mine! I guess that narrative is my current coping strategy 🙂 happy holiday everyone!
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I totally get this! I will add the caveat that you should consider that VA employees only get a certain number of annual leave days a year. I frequently come in the day after thanksgiving (not this year though!) because it is usually a quiet day, and I'd rather bank up my leave for fun in the summer. Just wanted to throw that out there in the off chance you receive an invite on Friday.
 
FionaGoode said:
I totally get this! I will add the caveat that you should consider that VA employees only get a certain number of annual leave days a year. I frequently come in the day after thanksgiving (not this year though!) because it is usually a quiet day, and I'd rather bank up my leave for fun in the summer. Just wanted to throw that out there in the off chance you receive an invite on Friday.
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That makes sense! Good to know, especially cause I'm hoping to hear from a couple VAs 🙂
 
blakjak12 said:
Has anyone heard from Western Psych/Pitt Psychiatry Department yet? I saw on their website that they were planning to extend interview invites on the 22nd, but I did not hear anything. I'm assuming this means I did not receive an interview invitation, but am still curious if anyone else has heard anything!
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I've been waiting on them as well, and heard nothing. It's strange because I thought I had a really good shot at an interview there. Maybe they're running late...
 
eremitestar said:
It's been a couple years since I was going through the application process, but I found sites to be very accommodating. I agree that you probably don't want to cancel or move an interview you've already scheduled, but if you let the new site know that you're already booked on the available dates, they might let you come in on another day. I even had one site add an interview day because so many people were booked up by the time they sent out their invitations. If all else fails, you can see if somebody would be willing to trade with you. In the end, if a site isn't understanding about all of this craziness, you might not want to be there.
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Thanks for the feedback. I was hoping that some sites, especially those that offer their interviews later and provide fewer options for dates, will be a little flexible. If any accommodations can be made, that would be great, but if not then that speaks a little bit to the culture of the site.

Side note, one of the things I wish we could give feedback on is that it's been extremely helpful for sites to give us advance warning on their website and brochures about their planned interview dates. I know this is a long time in advance to plan, but the fact that many of my sites provided this allowed me to plan for which days I really needed to reserve for my top sites and avoiding scheduling over with lower valued sites. There have been several sites that didn't provide this info, and that makes it really hard to keep up a good scheduling strategy.
 
Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital (#1425)
-Invited to interview via mass email on 11/23/16
-Interview date options: December 13th, 14th, and 15th

I also received an invitation on 11/15 to interview at Manhattan VA on 12/13, and I am not a current extern there - just noting this to add to the info already posted for that site. Sorry for the lateness of this note, I tried my best to avoid looking at this forum, but I could only hold out so long.

Best of luck to all! Hope everyone is able to take a day off from worrying and enjoy some time off.
 
Greater Hartford Consortium
Rejection
Mass email 11/25
 
-Greater Hartford Clinical Psychology Internship
-rejection
-Date notified: 11/25
-How notified: mass email
 
- Ann Arbor VA Medical Center
- Invitation to attend open house
- Date notified: 11/25
- How notified: Personal email
 
West Haven VA (Health Psychology Track)
-Invite
-11/25/16
-Personal e-mail
-12/22 (first choice specified in my cover letter)
 
Greater Hartford Consortium
Rejection
Mass email
11/25
 
Missouri Health Sciences Consortium
Phone call: 1/23
Neuro Track
Invite
Interview: 1/13
 
VA Connecticut Healthcare System, West Haven Campus, Clinical Health Psychology Track
Personal email, 11/25
Interview Invitation for Thurs 12/22
 
Reading Hospital
Personal email, 11/22
Interview Invite
Dates: 12/14, 1/4, 1/11, 1/18

Lexington VAMC
Phone Call, 11/25
Interview Invite
Date: 1/13
 
Has anyone heard from the West Haven VA for the PTSD track or Addictions track? Also are the emails track specific?
 
kennilapug said:
Has anyone heard from the West Haven VA for the PTSD track or Addictions track? Also are the emails track specific?
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It was track specific (Health Psych)...the email said if we had applied to more than one track, we would hear from the track coordinator "very soon." This is the only track I applied to there, but I hope this helps!
 
VA Medical Center, Salem (APPIC#: 1614)
11/25/16
Phone call:
Interview Dates: 12/16; 12/19; 1/17
 
Iowa City VA
Notified: 11/25/2016
Invite via Personalish e-mail
Open Houses on Dec. 13, 15, and 19. Phone calls also available.
 
Missouri Health Sciences Consortium
Neuropsych Track
Invite 11/23; phone call
Interview 1/6, 1/13, 1/20
 
Has anyone heard from Cincinnati Children's Hospital yet? If so, to which track did you apply?
 
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