2018-2019 APPIC Internship Interview Thread

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thebeckrepublic said:
Lexington VA Medical Center
-General Track
-Invite
-notified 11/17/17
-phone call
-Interview Dates: 12/15, 1/12

VA Pittsburgh Healthcare System
-General Track
-Invite
-notified 11/17/17
-mass email
-Interview Dates: 12/4, 12/11, 1/5, 1/8
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What time did Lexington call if you don't mind me asking?
 
jm315 said:
Full Site Name: Texas Child Study Center
-Track : Pediatric/Integrated Care Track
- Invite
-Date of Notification: 11/17/17
-Person email
-If & How You’re Staying Sane: Tv. Tv. and more Tv.
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C

Congrats! Would you mind sharing the dates they offered?
 
-Full Site Name: South Texas Veterans Health Care System
-Track: General Mental Health
-Invite
-Date of Notification: 11/17/17
-How You Were Notified: mass email
-Interview Date(s): 12/8

-Full Site Name: Lexington VA Medical Center
-Track: General Track
-Invite
-Date of Notification: 11/17/17
-How You Were Notified: Personal Call (Called around 1:30PM)
-Interview Date(s): 1/12
 
Well it appears that no more notifications are coming today...maybe I can actually take a breath this weekend and do something other than obsessively refresh my email! :laugh:
 
CatsFan said:
Well it appears that no more notifications are coming today...maybe I can actually take a breath this weekend and do something other than obsessively refresh my email! :laugh:
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Was thinking the same thing! We made it through another work week! Huzzah!!!!! Now let's all try to get some R&R in before Monday and we have to go back to obsessively checking emails again. I'm going to treat myself with an unhealthy amount of Netflix/shows. What about you all?!
 
Secret CBT Squirrel said:
I have no idea if anyone on here will relate, but are any of you new moms who are currently breastfeeding and will need to pump come interview time? I believe interview schedules are back to back for most of the day and I'm starting to worry I won't have time or a place to pump in between interviews. Any advice out there?
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Solidarity sister! I'll be pumping on interviews too (if I get any invites!) I don't have any advice but love what folks have been saying. I was on the interview circuit last year when I found out I was pregnant with my second baby. I was screening my sites for family-friendliness. I asked point-blank about work-life balance and whether other interns we're parents. It was really telling to see how folks (current interns and training faculty) answered!
 
FeelingsDoctor said:
I got it too. Not looking up at this point. :smack:
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Sorry about the UAB news. 🙁

I'm still in UAB limbo. As far as I can tell - neuropsychgirl1988 and CatsFan are the only neuro people who have heard from UAB that have posted about it and they received both notification of invites and rejections. I haven't received anything. Checked my spam folder and everything. I'm considering inquiring about my status maybe next week. I would just like to know for sure before I completely close the door on that one. Thoughts?
 
feelings_doctor said:
Solidarity sister! I'll be pumping on interviews too (if I get any invites!) I don't have any advice but love what folks have been saying. I was on the interview circuit last year when I found out I was pregnant with my second baby. I was screening my sites for family-friendliness. I asked point-blank about work-life balance and whether other interns we're parents. It was really telling to see how folks (current interns and training faculty) answered!
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I'd love to hear what kind of responses you got when you asked...what a great way to get a sense of the site! *fellow BFer*
 
I'm a dad, but my kid was between 2 weeks and 3-months-old during the course of my grad school interviews. It was very interesting how the different programs responded when I would bring it up. The places that emphasized how brave I was to be doing this with a baby were pretty telling. Not that there's any real expectation of work-life balance during grad school, but you could tell which DCTs were more supportive.
 
Psycho4Psyc said:
Mass email to proceed to USA Jobs application from BOP sites:
FMC Fort Worth 11/8
FCI Terminal Island 11/8
FMC Lexington 11/9
FCC Butner 11/9
FMC Devens 11/9
MDC-Los Angeles 11/9
FCC Petersbug 11/9
FCC Terre Haute 11/9


US Med Ctr for Federal Prisoners (USMCFP- Springfield)
-Mass email Rejection, 11/9

If/How staying sane: if baking and eating copious amounts of pumpkin bread is sane, I’m so there.

BTW -- first time i've visited this thread and its been a HOOT to read!
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Looks like you and I are going to the exact same BOP interviews!
 
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-Full Site Name: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS; #1106)
-Track: Child Clinical
-Invite or rejection: Invite!
-Date of Notification: 11/17/17
-How You Were Notified (mass email, personal email, phone): Personal email @ 11:01 a.m. CT
-Interview Date(s): 12/6, 12/15, 01/15, 01/10

-Full Site Name: St. Louis Psychology Internship Consortium (#1400)
-Track: N/A
-Invite or rejection: Invite!
-Date of Notification: 11/17/17
-How You Were Notified (mass email, personal email, phone): Personal email @2:21 p.m. CT
-Interview Date(s): 1/12/18, 1/19/18

-If & How You’re Staying Sane: Hahahah, yeah right 🤣
 
ICantStopHittingRefresh said:
I'd love to hear what kind of responses you got when you asked...what a great way to get a sense of the site! *fellow BFer*
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Responses were overwhelmingly positive (possibly a function of my niche—I do perinatal mental health stuff).quite a few folks said things like “oh, make sure you talk to this person, they have a kid” or “let me put you in touch with that person, they had a baby halfway through our program.” A few people actually seemed to feel guilty that they couldn’t think of any past interns who had kids during their training year. I only got one “well, it’s a 50 hour work week, so it’s hard. But when you go home, we don’t want you to take any work with you.”
 
Anyone else hear from Texas child study center? I’m going nuts since the first post this morning checking my email constantly
 
slaney said:
-Full Site Name: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences (UAMS; #1106)
-Track: Child Clinical
-Invite or rejection: Invite!
-Date of Notification: 11/17/17
-How You Were Notified (mass email, personal email, phone): Personal email @ 11:01 a.m. CT
-Interview Date(s): 12/6, 12/15, 01/15, 01/10

-Full Site Name: St. Louis Psychology Internship Consortium (#1400)
-Track: N/A
-Invite or rejection: Invite!
-Date of Notification: 11/17/17
-How You Were Notified (mass email, personal email, phone): Personal email @2:21 p.m. CT
-Interview Date(s): 1/12/18, 1/19/18

-If & How You’re Staying Sane: Hahahah, yeah right 🤣
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Congratulations!!! St.Louis Psychology Internship Consortium This is in my list. Not heard anything so far 🙁
 
tvc said:
Congratulations!!! St.Louis Psychology Internship Consortium This is in my list. Not heard anything so far 🙁
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Thank you! 🙂

And I'm sorry 🙁 . I know how much it sucks to see people post about invites to sites on your list while you sit with radio silence. I'm in the same boat with 2 of my other sites (as I'm sure many others are too). The back and forth between actively preparing for a rejection and trying to hold out hope is really, really draining. Hope you keep your head up! We'll all hear soon enough
 
slaney said:
Thank you! 🙂

And I'm sorry 🙁 . I know how much it sucks to see people post about invites to sites on your list while you sit with radio silence. I'm in the same boat with 2 of my other sites (as I'm sure many others are too). The back and forth between actively preparing for a rejection and trying to hold out hope is really, really draining. Hope you keep your head up! We'll all hear soon enough
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Yup..which site within the consortium did call you?
 
University of Minnesota Medical School
Rejection
Personal email evening 11/17

University of California Los Angeles, Semel Institute (#11342)
Pediatric neuropsychology track
Invite
Mass email 11/16
Open House 1/12 or 1/19
 
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TheSunnySide said:
Site name: Rush University Medical Center
Track: Health Psychology
Invite!!!!
How were you notified: Mass email on 11/17
Interview dates: Jan 10, 11, 12, 15, 16,
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Congrats!!!! What time did they notify you?
 
jm315 said:
Full Site Name: Texas Child Study Center
-Track : Pediatric/Integrated Care Track
- Invite
-Date of Notification: 11/17/17
-Person email
-If & How You’re Staying Sane: Tv. Tv. and more Tv.
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Do you mind sharing the interview dates?
 
colleague received invitation from Nebraska Internship Consortium yesterday! Invites to the Munroe Meyer Institute program's integrated care and Center for ASD tracks.
 
empeter23 said:
-Full Site Name: National Psychology Training Consortium (central region)
-Track (if applicable): Ozark Center/Freeman Health
-Invite or rejection: invite
-Date of Notification: 11/15
-How You Were Notified (mass email, personal email, phone): mass email
-Interview Date(s): 12/1
-If & How You’re Staying Sane: lots of kitty snuggles and dissociating 🙂
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tvc said:
Me too! I am assuming you are going to be there on the 1st. Let me know if you looking for sharing room, just an idea if it helps save some bucks. By end of interview season it would be a big bill!
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Are either or both of y'all staying in one of the hotels they suggested in their invite? Is y'all's site offering a tour on the 30th, as well? If so, are you going? Will that mean another night in Springfield for you? Although I'm far too introverted and sleep persnickety for room sharing, it wouldn't suck to meet some other applicants around the hotel and maybe commisserate about this whole process over a nightcap or a morning coffee, or whatever?
 
Hawkeye11 said:
Are either or both of y'all staying in one of the hotels they suggested in their invite? Is y'all's site offering a tour on the 30th, as well? If so, are you going? Will that mean another night in Springfield for you? Although I'm far too introverted and sleep persnickety for room sharing, it wouldn't suck to meet some other applicants around the hotel and maybe commisserate about this whole process over a nightcap or a morning coffee, or whatever?
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Sounds like a plan! I am not sure if they are offering site tours on 30th. But I will be there on 30th night. I haven't booked any hotel yet. let me know where we can catch up!
 
tvc said:
Sounds like a plan! I am not sure if they are offering site tours on 30th. But I will be there on 30th night. I haven't booked any hotel yet. let me know where we can catch up!
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I'm probably looking to stay at the cheaper of the two suggestions listed in the letter, but I haven't booked it yet. I just got another email today saying that the site I applied to (Burrell) would be offering tours on the 30th since they're in the same town as the interviews. I haven't replied yet because I've been swamped today and was on campus until after 9 tonight, but I plan to respond affirmatively that I'd like to do the site tour. The schedule of the Burrell tour will decide how many nights I end up booking. If it's towards the end of the day on the 30th, I might be able to get away with driving in that day (about a 7 hr drive for me) instead of staying over on the 29th, too. I'll let you know when I've pulled the trigger and booked something, but unless the cheaper option is all booked up or I happen across some kind of horrifying review of it, I'll almost for sure be staying there.
 
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Central Iowa va
Track: General? Honestly not sure if I indicated one
Invite
Date notified: yesterday apparently :nailbiting: (11/17)
Notified via personal email (sent to my non-school account!)
Interview dates: in person open house dec 11-13 or phone interview December 8,9 or 15
If and how staying sane: what is sane? 😵 Also, snuggling my babies
 
Hawkeye11 said:
Are either or both of y'all staying in one of the hotels they suggested in their invite? Is y'all's site offering a tour on the 30th, as well? If so, are you going? Will that mean another night in Springfield for you? Although I'm far too introverted and sleep persnickety for room sharing, it wouldn't suck to meet some other applicants around the hotel and maybe commisserate about this whole process over a nightcap or a morning coffee, or whatever?
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I am staying with my family who live in SW Missouri so I won’t need a hotel- but I would be happy to meet some fellow applicants!
 
BSM328 said:
Congrats!!!! What time did they notify you?
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Thanks! They emailed me at 4:55pm EST. I didn't get a chance to get on SDN until almost 10pm and was surprised no one else had posted in, also I think this is earlier than they've notified in the past so they might not be done with invites! It ain't over til the rejection email comes in! (At least that's what I've been telling myself with other sites, ha)
 
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