2017-18 Post-Doc Interview Thread

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For any past or future interviews, please post within this thread or PM to it me (click my username and then "start conversation") if you wish to remain anonymous.

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-Site name
-Date notified and notification style (email, phone, etc.)
-Invite or rejection
-Track (please specify even for general tracks)
-Interview dates offered

INVITES:

Akron Children's Hospital 12/19 email; Pediatric 2/6, 2/10
Augusta University (AU) in partnership with East Central Regional Hospital 1/18 by email; Forensic, 2/13 and 2/20
Austen Riggs 1/3/17 via email from Human Resources Director; General Track, Arranged on an individual basis in the next 3-4 weeks
Bay Pines VA neuropsych track today 1/10 via email.
Barrow Neurological Institute 12/14/2016 via personalized email, Invite for preliminary phone interview on 12/23; Neuro-Rehabilitation, Subsequent invite for in person interview on 1/23, 1/24, or 1/25
Battle Creek VA 1/13; Outpatient Mental Health/PTSD and Outpatient Mental Health (Wyoming); 1/14 Behavioral Medicine
Baylor/Texas Children's Hospital 1/13; Pediatric health psychology, Jan. 30, Feb. 10, and Feb. 13.
Bedford VAMC 12/20/16, personalize email; Neuropsychology track Interviews 1/19, 1/24, or 1/26; 1/17 by email PCMHI, 1/23, 1/24, 1/26, 2/1, 2/2, 2/6, 2/9; by email 1/18; Interprofessional MH Track
Boston Child Study Center 1/11, email; DBT and Outpatient, 1/25
Boston Children's Hospital personal email on 01/11; Developmental Medicine Track, 01/30, 02/06; Psychiatry Consultation Service (PCS), onsite: 1/25, 1/27, 1/30, 2/1, 2/3, 2/6, 2/8, 2/10.
Boston College Counseling Center (1/9, phone call) - 1/27, 1/30, 2/3, 2/6, 2/10, 2/13
Boston VA 1/6 via email; Behavioral Medicine 1/27, 1/30, 2/10
CAPT/ MSU Flint Area Medical Education 1/18 phone; Clinical Health Psychology, 2/6
Cambridge Health Alliance 1/9/17 Neuropsychology 1/23 or 1/24
Children's Health/Children's Medical Center Dallas 1/9/17 Personal email; Pediatric Psychology, Will email with date options
Children's Health (Dallas) 1/10 individual email. Skype interview to be followed by in-person invite
Children's Hospital Los Angeles personal email on 01/16; Project Heal Track, Early Childhood track, 01/25
Children's Hospital of Pittsburgh of UPMC (Pittsburgh, PA): email 1/4 and 1/5, C-L track, 01/27, 2/3
Children's National Health System 1/9 Personal Email; Pediatric Neuropsychology, INS Interview
Cincinnati Children's Hospital 1/11/17; Personal Email; Pediatric Neuropsychology, INS 1/31 or 2/1
Cleveland Clinic, email; Pediatric Behavioral Health 1/30, 2/1, 2/2; 1/12 notification for Health Psychology (Bariatrics and chronic pain).
Cleveland VAMC 1/17 by email; Psychosocial Rehabilitation of the Seriously Mentally Ill, 1/27 open house and interview day; 1/18 email PTSD, 1/27 open house
Columbia University Medical Center, PROMISE Program 1/20 Phone call; Pediatric Neuropsych
Cornell UCC 1/19, phone call
Durham VAMC 1/11 email; trauma + PRRC
Eastern Colorado VAHCS 12/29/2016 via phone call; PC/MHI 1/20 or 1/27 in person interviews, phone interview option
Emory University School of Medicine Postdoctoral Residency Training Program in Health Service Psychology1/23 Invite via e-mail; Forensic, Several dates in January and February
George Washington University Program in Professional Psychology 1/6/17 via email from TD; General Track, Arranged on an individual basis
Hampton VAMC 1/11 email, interviews 1/30, 1/31
Harbor/UCLA 1/18; CBT Track
Hurley Medical Center 1/12/2017 via phone call; Adult Rehabilitation Psychology -1/23/2017
Indiana University School of Medicine 1/18/17, email; Neuropsychology, Flexible, INS
John D. Dingell (Detroit) VAMC 12/29/16 via email; HIV & Liver Diseases Track 1/13/17 & 1/23/17 (Note: 1/30/17 offered as an alternative option)
John's Hopkins Hospital (Baltimore, MD): email 12/21, Pediatric Psychology, 1/13
Kaiser SF 1/18; neuro/adult track
Kaiser San Rafael 1/17 by phone call; Adult Outpatient Clinic 2/9
Kennedy Krieger Institute 1/9 Personal Email; Pediatric Neuropsychology, INS Interview; 1/12/17 personal email, Peds Consult, Dates pending
La Rabida Children's Hospital 12/6/16, email; Pediatric 1/4, 1/5, 1/11, 1/18, 1/25, 1/26
Lenox Hill Hospital, Center for Attention and Learning (CAL) 1/19 Phone call; Neuropsych
Loma Linda VA 1/13 email; Trauma psych in person or phone 2/8 or 2/9
Loyola School of Medicine (Chicago, IL) 12/19 via personal email; Health/BMed 1/10, 1/17, 1/24, 1/31, 2/7
Loyola University Maryland Counseling Center 1/18, email, phone interview 1/20, 1/23, 1/24
Maine VA email on 1/9 neuropsych track with interviews at INS
Martinez VA neuro 1/10
Manhattan VA 1/6/17 Email; PTSD, Interprofessional Training, and OEF/OIF/OND Veterans Interview dates offered: 1/23, 1/24
Mass Mental Health Center/BIDMC, Neuropsych personal email on 12/27. Interview dates offered Dec 29, 30, Jan 5, 6, 12 , 13
Mayo Clinic Email 12/22; Clinical Child track 1/23, 1/30, 2/3, 2/6
McLean- neuropsych track notified by personal email on 12/21/16. Interview dates offered Jan 9, 10, 11, 12, 13
McLean - Hill Center for Women - 1/13/17 - Invite
Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) personalized email on 12/21; Behavioral; 1/14/17, e-mail, Forensic Psychology, 1/27 or 2/3
Medicine/Health psychology 1/27 or 1/30
MetroHealth 1/6 email; pediatric primary care, Skype interview
Minnesota Epilepsy Group 1/18; Neuropsychology, Flexible, INS
Montclair St UCC 1/10 Phone Call, Phone Screen
Mount Sinai, Department of Rehabilitation 1/19 E-mail; Neuropsych & Rehabilitation Research; 1/18, email for DBT-High Risk , 1/23, 1/25, 1/26, or 1/31
Mt. Washington Pediatric Hospital (Baltimore, MD): email 12/8 and 12/22, inpatient track, 1/12
Nationwide Children's Hospital 1/6 email; genreal pediatric Interview dates offered: 1/25, 1/30, 2/3; 1/13/17 Personal Email, Pediatric Neuropsychology, INS 1/31 or 2/1
NJ VA 1/18; Health Psych
New Mexico VA (Albuquerque) 1/20; PSSR and Family tracks. Various interview dates offered all the last week of January. Phone interviews
New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Medical Center 1/13, phone, Clinical Child, 2/2 or 2/9
North Texas VA 1/13 personalized email; Neuropsychology 1/31, 2/1, 2/2 (INS)
Phoenix VA Healthcare System 12/28/16, personalize email; Neuropsychology track
Interviews at INS, in-person, open house (1/23), or telephonic/V-TEL
Portland VA 1/23, email; PCMHI. 1/30, 1/31, 2/1, 2/2, 2/8. 45-minute phone interview
Princeton CPS email, 1/13, Invite, first round of three interviews (phone on 1/16, then skype, then in-person)
Providence VA 1/17; General Mental Health Track
San Diego VA/UCSD 1/12 via personal email; La Jolla PCMHI/Psycho-Oncology; Consultation/Liason & Pain; PRC; Interview 1/30
San Francisco VA Psychology 1/10 Health; Gero; Community Interview dates: 1/23, 1/30, 2/3, 2/6
Siteman Cancer Institute (St. Louis, MO) 1/6 via personal email; Health/Cancer 2/10
South Texas Veterans Health Care System (San Antonio) Personal email; Substance Use and Homelessness, 2/7 (morning)
Southeast Louisiana Veterans Health Care System (New Orleans VA) Personal email; PTSD, Phone Interview between January 30-February 7
Stanford School of Medicine/Lucile Packard Children's Hospital Personal email 1/3/17; Pediatric Psychology. January 30
Stanford University School of Medicine 12/14 via email; General track, 1/20, 1/23, 2/7
Stonybrook UCC 1/23 mass email; will get follow up email, interviews the week of Feb 6th and 13th. Skype or in person
Tampa VA 12/28/2016 via personalized email; Neuropsychology, three 30-minute phone interviews, flexible scheduling
UCLA CC 1/18
UCSD CC 1/18
University of Miami/Jackson Memorial Hospital (Miami, FL): email 01/10, interview offer, Pediatric Health Psychology, onsite: Jan 30th, Feb 6th and Feb 13th
University of North Carolina Center of Excellence for Eating Disorders 12/13 via email; Clinical, Week of 1/9 - 1/13
University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center personal email; General Pediatric, Mondays and Fridays in January
University of Virginia Institute of Law, Psychiatry, & Public Policy
University of Wisconsin Health (Madison, WI) 12/5 via personal email; Behavioral Med/Inpatient, Applicant invited to choose date
UVA (Charlottesville, VA) 1/4 via personal email; Behavioral Med 1/30, 1/31, 2/1, 2/6, 2/7, 2/8
VA Connecticut 1/12 email; interprofessional mental health; Health Psych, 1/30; 1/19 via personal email; Clinical Health Psychology, 2/2, 2/8
VA Maryland 1/13 email; PCMHI, 2/2, 2/9, 2/13
VA Northern California Health Care System 1/9/17 PTSD track, Invite to open house 2/2 with interviews or phone interviews; 1/9; Behavioral Medicine Track
VA Pittsburgh 1/10/17, personal email, MIRECC (research fellowship) Interview dates TBD but planning to complete interviews by 2/10/17; email 1/13 Interprofessional Care, 2/7, 2/8, 2/15, 2/16
VA Puget sound American Lake Division 1/6; Rehabilitation Track, Open house 2/1, interviews individually assigned by POI
VA St. Louis 1/17 by email; PCMHI, TBD
VA Salt Lake City 1/17 by phone; Addictions, 1/31 & 2/1
VCU personalized email on 1/10/17; Clinical Health Psychology track 1/23 or 1/30
Washington DC VAMC 1/13/17 via phone; Health 1/30/17Wesleyan University CAPS phone call 1/11 - 1/26 Skype interview
West LA VA E-mail 1/18; CoE-HPACT Interview dates offered: 1/31 or 2/2
West Virginia University School of Medicine 1.19, email; Neuropsychology, Thursday or Friday at INS
Williams College, 1/10, personalized email, mid-February interviews

Invites after 1/23/17 (will alphabetize later)

Alpert Medical School/Brown CAPS (email 2/3) - Skype interview invite, 2/10, 2/13, 2/17, 2/24)
DSH-Vacaville 1/31; personal email 2/21/17 or 2/23/17
Cambridge Health Alliance / Harvard Medical School 1/27 mass email; Program for Psychotherapy and Adult Psychotherapy/Assessment tracks, 2/8 & 2/13; Child and Adolescent Acute Track, 2/6, 2/8, 2/14, & 2/15
Kennedy Krieger Institute 1/31/17 via personalized email; Child and Family Therapy Clinic. 2/3, 2/6, 2/10, 2/17, 2/20
Milwaukee VA neuropsych on 1/19/17 with INS interview dates
Nicklaus Children’s Hospital (Miami, FL): email 1/30, tele-interview 2/13 or 2/15
Patton State Hospital 1/24; personal email; Forensic, 1/31, 2/1, 2/2, 2/3, 2/6, 2/9, 2/10, 2/15, 2/17
Penn State CAPS (email 2/8) - Skype interview invite part 1, 2/13, 2/14, 2/15
Philadelphia VA 2/5 Email Neuropsychology
Southeast Louisiana VA (NOLA) 1/19/17 Email PTSD Phone interviews on various days in early Feb
SHARP Healthcare CBT/DBT - IOP Track, personal email 1/23, interview invite, multiple dates in February
Tennessee Valley Healthcare System (Murfreesboro) 1/25/17 phone call Interprofessional, Phone interviews early Feb UC Berkeley UCC invite 1/23 for a phone interview on 2/9
University of Michigan CAPS 1/30 phone call Interview dates offered: 2/6 & 2/7
University of New Hampshire (1/24) personal email - scheduling first-round phone interview
Villanova University (1/24) phone call - phone interview

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Rejections and Waitlist


Boston VA - PTSD/General Mental Health - Rejection via Mass Email 1/10/2017
Children's Hospital Colorado 1/9 Rejection by mass email
Dana-Farber Cancer Institute 1/6/17 Personal email, Rejection, Pediatric Psychosocial Oncology - Neuro-Oncology
Long Beach VA trauma track - rejection via mass email 1/18
Los Angeles VA Ambulatory Care Center Rejection via mass email 1/10
Manhattan VA PTSD/Interprofessional Training - Rejection via Mass Email 1/9/2017
MGH- neuropsych track- rejection by personal email on 12/22; Mass General 1/13/17 personal email, rejection, Pediatric Psychology
Mayo Clinic Rochester 1/12/2017 via email, Waitlist, Adult Neuropsychology
MEDVAMC mass email Rejection; PTSD
Medical College of Wisconsin 1/13 mass email Rejection; Adult Neuropsychology
Nationwide Children's Hospital (Columbus, OH): email 1/6, waitlisted, Peds Psych Generalist position; 1/20 Email Rejection for Critical care medicine
Palo Alto VA Neuropsych Track, Rejection via Mass Email 1/6/2017
Seattle VA Puget sound SMI track, rejected via email on January 12
Sepulveda VA rejection via mass email 1/11
Stony Brook UCC, Rejection, 1/19, email
University of Iowa 1/13 mass email Rejection; Neuropsychology
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center 1/17/17, email Rejection; Neuropsychology
VA Pittsburgh mass email Rejection; PTSD


Cambridge Health Alliance, Victims of Violence program - rejection 2/7 Cambridge Health Alliance/Harvard Medical School 1/27/17, email Rejection neuropsych

UMICH/VA Ann Arbor (1/25/17)Neuropsych Adult track Rejection - positions filled
Personalized email

Memphis VA (1/25/17) Neuropsych track Rejection Mass email

STL VA 1/19/17 Email Rejection PTSD
 
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Thank you so much for setting this up!
 
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You are a kind and generous (and possibly slightly masochistic) soul, and we all appreciate you.

If it becomes overwhelming and you need help, please reach out to one of us.
 
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Has anyone heard from California VA's?
 
Does anyone know if it was just the Behavioral Medicine track at the Boston VA that sent out invites today or all the tracks? Thanks!
 
Thanks and good point; sadly, no one ever seems to post UCCs =(
 
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Manhattan VA PTSD/Interprofessional Training - Rejection via Mass Email 1/9/2017
 
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Heard from a friend who got an invitation by email on 1/9 from the Maine VA neuropsych track with interviews at INS
 
Boston College Counseling Center (1/9, phone call) - 1/27, 1/30, 2/3, 2/6, 2/10, 2/13
 
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SF VA neuro has gone out (and their neuro-related MIRECC). Beyond that, no clue.
 
Boston VA - PTSD/General Mental Health - Rejection via Mass Email 1/10/2017
 
A friend got an interview for the Bay Pines VA neuropsych track today 1/10 via email.
 
Los Angeles VA Ambulatory Care Center Rejection via mass email 1/10
 
after two invites, a slew of rejections close to home

le sigh, this process seems worse than internship for me
 
after two invites, a slew of rejections close to home

le sigh, this process seems worse than internship for me


I feel you :( 2 rejections 2 days in a row with no invites as of yet! I keep reminding myself that we will all end up where we're meant to be.
 
I feel you :( 2 rejections 2 days in a row with no invites as of yet! I keep reminding myself that we will all end up where we're meant to be.

O man! Bummers :(

You are right, I think it all will work out in the end. I applied to a bunch of sites, with the expectation that half would be more difficult to get invites and the others not so much.

Its gone as I expected, but still teh ButtHurt is real.
 
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San Francisco VA Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Invite by email on 1/10
Interview dates based on ranking of preference for: 1/23, 1/30, 2/3, 2/6
Gero and psychosocial rehabilitation
 
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San Francisco VA Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Invite by email on 1/10
Interview dates based on ranking of preference for: 1/23, 1/30, 2/3, 2/6[/

Was it a track invite or mass? Thanks!
 
I applied to 2 tracks at San Francisco VA and got interview for 1 (gero) and rejection from another (community)
 
Rejection from Sepulveda VA via mass email 1/11
 
I see that the Manhattan VA has announced for their PTSD track...anyone heard from their other tracks? Or did all the tracks already announce?
 
-Site name: University of Iowa (UIHC)
-Date notified and notification style (email, phone, etc.): email around 9 a.m. on 1/12/2017
-Invite or rejection: invitation to interview at INS
-Track (please specify even for general tracks): Neuropsychology
-Interview dates offered: 1/31 and 2/1
 
-Site name: North Texas VA
-Date notified and notification style (email, phone, etc.): personalized email
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track (please specify even for general tracks): Neuropsychology
-Interview dates offered: 1/31, 2/1, 2/2 (INS)

-Site name: Medical College of Wisconsin
-Date notified and notification style (email, phone, etc.): mass email
-Invite or rejection: Rejection
-Track (please specify even for general tracks): Adult Neuropsychology

-Site name: University of Iowa
-Date notified and notification style (email, phone, etc.): mass email
-Invite or rejection: Rejection
-Track (please specify even for general tracks): Neuropsychology
 
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Loma Linda VA Trauma psych track invite via email interview in person or phone 2/8 or 2/9
 
-Site name: Hines VA, Chicago
-Date notified and notification style (email, phone, etc.): mass email
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track (please specify even for general tracks): Neuropsychology
-Interview dates offered: 1/31, 2/1, 2/2 (INS)
 
- Site name: VA Maryland
-Date notified and notification style (email, phone, etc.): email
-Invite or rejection: invite
-Track (please specify even for general tracks): PCMHI
-Interview dates offered: 2/2, 2/9, 2/13
 
- Site name: Cincinnati Children's Hospital
-Date notified and notification style (email, phone, etc.): personalized email
-Invite or rejection: Invite
-Track (please specify even for general tracks): DDBP/Autism and DDBP/Psychiatry
-Interview dates offered: 2/3, 2/6
 
Can people confirm that the Philadelphia and New Jersey VAs have NOT sent out their invites (specifically health psych).
 
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