APPIC Internship Interview Invitation Thread (2020)

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hopsandskips said:
Official Site Name: Monterey County Internship
Date Invitation Received: 11/15
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): email included info for both site rotations
Offered Interview Dates: Requested I call in to schedule the official date (12/9-12/11 are the dates)
(In honor of last year) If & How you're staying sane: treating myself to good food

I'm posting this partly for advice! We're supposed to call someone on Monday at 11 am which happens to be smack dab in the middle of an assessment I am doing with my supervisor in the room. I really don't want to miss making the call because I can't do one of the dates and I'm afraid that's the one I would get stuck with. Is anyone familiar with the phone call process at this site (or other sites that do something similar)? My fear is that even if I talk to my supervisor and she lets me step out and call at exactly the right time, I will probably end up losing out to someone else for being the first caller. But I can't just sit and wait while redialing because of the assessment. And it feels pretty last minute to try to see if the patient can reschedule. Any advice?
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Personally, if the situation is one in which your supervisor is available to continue the assessment, I would have that conversation in advance and call as close to 11AM as possible. If it takes numerous attempts, so be it (there may be several people fielding calls) - the time-sensitive nature of this internship stuff is neither your fault nor is it ideal for anyone. Hopefully your supervisor would understand that, particularly if you have a strong preference/need for specific date(s). If the situation is more complicated than that, it will not hurt to talk it out with your supervisor and still aim to call as soon as you are available to do so. But that's just me! Either way, I'm sure it will work out for you - congrats on the invite!
 
NeuroFLAIR said:
Personally, if the situation is one in which your supervisor is available to continue the assessment, I would have that conversation in advance and call as close to 11AM as possible. If it takes numerous attempts, so be it (there may be several people fielding calls) - the time-sensitive nature of this internship stuff is neither your fault nor is it ideal for anyone. Hopefully your supervisor would understand that, particularly if you have a strong preference/need for specific date(s). If the situation is more complicated than that, it will not hurt to talk it out with your supervisor and still aim to call as soon as you are available to do so. But that's just me! Either way, I'm sure it will work out for you - congrats on the invite!
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Thank you! Now that I've had some time to slow down and breathe a bit, I think this is very good advice.
 
hopsandskips said:
Thank you! Now that I've had some time to slow down and breathe a bit, I think this is very good advice.
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Agree with this. As a psychologist, I can say that I know I would be understanding of a practicum student needing to step out for that. Internship is of the utmost importance and we know this because we remember. The supervisor was going to be present anyway so it’s not a situation in which you’re asking them to switch their schedule.
 
Official Site Name: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Date Invitation Received: 11/16/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): personal email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Neuropsych
Offered Interview Dates: 1/6, 1/8, 1/13, 1/15, 1/22, 1/27
 
Today's DMs (the invites posted below are posted on the behalf of anonymous others).

Official Site Name: VAEK Colmery-O'Neil VAMC
Date Invitation Received: 11/15/2019
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): personalized email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): general
Offered Interview Dates: 1/9, 1/10, 1/23, 1/24
(In honor of last year) If & How you're staying sane: my cat, dog, wine and cheese.

Official Site Name: University of Chicago Medicine
Date Invitation Received: 11/15/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Adult Neuropsychology
Offered Interview Dates: 1/3, 1/10, 1/17, 1/24

Mass General/Harvard (11/15, personal email, Neuropsychology elective, 01/02 or 01/09)
UAB-BVAMC (11/15, personal email, NA, 12/9 or 01/06)

Official Site Name: Oregon Health and Science University
Date Invitation Received: 11/15/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): ASD track but, it appears everyone got the same email from what I can see as it was general.
Offered Interview Dates: 1/7/20; 1/10/20
(In honor of last year) If & How you're staying sane: Dogs

Official Site Name: James H. Quillen VAMC
Date Invitation Received: 11/14
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): phone call notifying me that they would send a mass email tomorrow
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): General
Offered Interview Dates: 12/16, 1/3, 1/6 scheduled first-come-first-served via "sign-up genius" link in Friday's (11/15) email

In other news, I loved this little tidbit from the brochure of a VA I applied to in a cold state, bless that training director/committee.

A note about interviewing in [cold state]: All of the interviews take place in winter, and there is a good deal of walking involved. So we heartily recommend warm clothing and sturdy, comfortable footwear, including boots, if the forecast calls for snow

Also, Kudos to @NeuroFLAIR for helping me keep up with the busy thread today. Please, everyone, feel free to let me know if I'm missed things.
 
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BrainNerd_66 said:
Official Site Name: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Date Invitation Received: 11/16/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): personal email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Neuropsych
Offered Interview Dates: 1/6, 1/8, 1/13, 1/15, 1/22, 1/27
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Well..I checked my email this morning and saw nothing from them 🙁
 
HarlenPhD said:
Yes, just got an interview offer today:

Official Site Name: University of Chicago
Date Invitation Received: 11/15/2019
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Email (mass I think)
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Adult/Health
Interview dates: 1/3, 1/10, 1/17, & 1/24
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Has anyone heard from the Child/Pediatric Psychology track? I've seen invites for the other three.
 
I think(?) I was waitlisted at University of Chicago Medicine for pediatric neuropsychology. Just received a mass e-mail about five minutes ago..yes, on a Saturday...saying they would keep my application on file in case an interview slot opens up.

I'm chalking this one as a definite rejection, but I have never heard of this before. Any thoughts?
 
occamsrzr said:
I think(?) I was waitlisted at University of Chicago Medicine for pediatric neuropsychology. Just received a mass e-mail about five minutes ago..yes, on a Saturday...saying they would keep my application on file in case an interview slot opens up.

I'm chalking this one as a definite rejection, but I have never heard of this before. Any thoughts?
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Just received this as well for the Child/Pediatric Psychology track. Pretty bummed. =/
 
bluemirage92 said:
Just received this as well for the Child/Pediatric Psychology track. Pretty bummed. =/
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I’ve never heard of “waitlisting” interviews for APPIC’s process when there are so many applicants to choose from. That sounds like a “nicer” but vague way of saying no because everyone selected for an interview will interview, leaving no slots open for the waitlisted. The only way waitlisted folks would benefit is if someone very suddenly dropped out of interviewing for personal reasons, which is extremely rare, and that only opens up one slot on the waitlist.

Bummer! I personally think this is poor practice by sites when they already have phase two as a backup if needed.
 
parametric said:
Fingers crossed you hear something soon! Notifications do seem to be going out later this year in general, though that could just be my anxiety distorting my sense of time...

I am a little relieved to learn that other people haven't heard from U Chicago Med either.
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I think this may be related to the fact that Thanksgiving is about a week later (the 28th) than it was last year (the 22nd). Sites may not be feeling as much pressure to get the invitations out as quickly since there is a later start to the holiday season.
 
Seven_Costanza said:
I think this may be related to the fact that Thanksgiving is about a week later (the 28th) than it was last year (the 22nd). Sites may not be feeling as much pressure to get the invitations out as quickly since there is a later start to the holiday season.
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ohhh that makes a lot of sense.

Nothing from U Chicago here so gonna move this one to the “rejection” list... Congrats to everyone who got an invite!!
 
Official Site Name: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center
Date Invitation Received: 11/15/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): personal email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Child
Offered Interview Dates: 1/6, 1/8, 1/13, 1/15
(In honor of last year) If & How you're staying sane: Knitting and snuggling with my pets

This is my first invite and I'm shocked and thrilled.
 
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I got my first notification and it was an invitation interview! Yay!

Official Site Name: University of Minnesota Medical School
Date Invitation Received: 11/16/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): personal email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Pediatric Psychology/Pediatric Neuropsychology
Offered Interview Dates: 12/16/19 and 1/14/20
(In honor of last year) If & How you're staying sane: Good question!
 
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Today's DMs (the invites posted below are posted on the behalf of anonymous others).

Official Site Name: Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Date Invitation Received: 11/15/19 (late at night)
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Personal email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Child track

Official Site Name: University of Minnesota Medical School
Date Invitation Received: 11/16/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Personal email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums):
Offered Interview Dates: 12/16 and 1/14
 
This whole process is a rollercoaster - wow! Didn't think I'd hear anything on a Saturday but here we are.

Official Site Name: Medical College of Wisconsin
Date Invitation Received: 11/16/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): personal email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): N/A
Offered Interview Dates: 12/13, 12/17, 1/9, 1/15
 
Official Site Name: Columbia VA Health Care System
Date Invitation Received: 11/17/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): N/A
Offered Interview Dates: 12/4, 12/11
 
Futre_Dr_Thia said:
I have noticed everything is later this year so, I am hoping this trend stops!
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Agreed. I hope the later holiday results in more sites attempting to finish reviews prior to it. However, so many people are reviewing these extensive applications on their own time outside of major obligations, so it's difficult to guess what will happen.
 
foreverbull said:
I’ve never heard of “waitlisting” interviews for APPIC’s process when there are so many applicants to choose from. That sounds like a “nicer” but vague way of saying no because everyone selected for an interview will interview, leaving no slots open for the waitlisted. The only way waitlisted folks would benefit is if someone very suddenly dropped out of interviewing for personal reasons, which is extremely rare, and that only opens up one slot on the waitlist.
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This used to be pretty rare, anecdotally, it does appear to be happening more often. This increase in canceled interviews appear to coincide with the number of spots outpacing number of applicants. I'd be interested to hear from other faculty if this has been happening somewhat more often in the past few years.
 
Does anyone know what is up with UF Health sending out some invitations but that other people have not heard back either way? I know some of you are talking about waitlisting but it seems early to already to be doing that since there notification by date is listed as Dec. 11.
 
neurorehabguy said:
Ditto, I would love to know where I stand with them too. Perhaps it will be another rejection? 🙂 I look at this like the lottery; every time I lose, I tell myself at least I'm helping the public education system.
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I'm glad you can view it more positively than I can :dead:
 
bah1159 said:
Does anyone know what is up with UF Health sending out some invitations but that other people have not heard back either way? I know some of you are talking about waitlisting but it seems early to already to be doing that since there notification by date is listed as Dec. 11.
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Either they're doing rolling invites or they're sending out their rejections later. It's actually fairly typical for a site to send out interview notifications on one day and then rejections at a later date. Many sites will also notify applicants well in advance of their notification by date, and a few will notify all applicants on that date. Good luck!
 
WisNeuro said:
This used to be pretty rare, anecdotally, it does appear to be happening more often. This increase in canceled interviews appear to coincide with the number of spots outpacing number of applicants. I'd be interested to hear from other faculty if this has been happening somewhat more often in the past few years.
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I'm not sure what other sites are doing, although I thought waitlists are still generally not used. Our site doesn't do waitlists because it's pretty rare for an applicant to back out of an interview - and if it happens, it's pretty late in the game.
 
str63 said:
I'm not sure what other sites are doing, although I thought waitlists are still generally not used. Our site doesn't do waitlists because it's pretty rare for an applicant to back out of an interview - and if it happens, it's pretty late in the game.
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Still pretty rare, 1-3 people in recent years. But it used to pretty much be never. We will bring someone out of the "just missed" pile for an interview if they can make it.
 
bah1159 said:
Does anyone know what is up with UF Health sending out some invitations but that other people have not heard back either way? I know some of you are talking about waitlisting but it seems early to already to be doing that since there notification by date is listed as Dec. 11.
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That is curious! I am feeling this way with one site. Have seen three invites go up, but haven't seen a rejection yet, and notification date is not until the week of the 11th for December.
 
bah1159 said:
I'm glad you can view it more positively than I can :dead:
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I was also being sarcastic lol! IDK...maybe I've become apathetic to this. I am getting old, or at least older than most of the people in my cohort. I want to press the unpause button and resume life. That's how I feel. I'm sure someone will chime in and tell me not to think that way, but as it is now, that's my automatic thought. Being off the job market for so long is rough. Grad school takes up so much time. I will admit that I didn't balance my time well in the past 4 years; I focused on my studies more than having fun. That's my own fault, but it is what it is and it contributes to how I am feeling about this process. I think it's fair to say we all worked our butts off to do well, and we don't want to see the ball drop at this stage of our training. So...rather than think this, I try to use humor as my defense mechanism.
 
I had a dream that I had a dream that I got an interview invitation to Western State Hospital in my inbox. When I woke up from the dream, I had an interview invitation from Western State Hospital! Then I posted about it on here. Then I woke up from that dream and realized none of it had happened, haha!
 
bah1159 said:
Does anyone know what is up with UF Health sending out some invitations but that other people have not heard back either way? I know some of you are talking about waitlisting but it seems early to already to be doing that since there notification by date is listed as Dec. 11.
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I say this with absolutely no authority, but I think some sites that have a ton of applicants might review in batches and send out invites as they find people they want. So that might explain why some people haven’t been contacted yet - their applications might still be in the unread pile. It’s how I might approach having to read hundreds of applications - like a TA who grades one stack of papers and leaves another stack for later
 
Rejection from U Chicago Med this morning. Ah well. Onwards...

This whole “paying attention to my phone every single second” thing is seriously the most stressful part of the process so far. Wish sites could coordinate and send out notifications in like a two hour window each day or something.
 
Official Site Name: South Texas Veterans Health Care System
Date Invitation Received: 11/18
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Neuro
Offered Interview Dates: 12/6, 1/6, 1/14,
(In honor of last year) If & How you're staying sane: Puzzles!
 
sevenhells said:
Official Site Name: South Texas Veterans Health Care System
Date Invitation Received: 11/18
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Neuro
Offered Interview Dates: 12/6, 1/6, 1/14,
(In honor of last year) If & How you're staying sane: Puzzles!
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Same, but Trauma Track

I'm staying sane by distracting with data cleaning for my dissertation...which is somehow less painful than checking my email every 15 minutes.
 
Official Site Name: Allegheny General Hospital
Date Invitation Received: 11/18
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Mass Email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Child trauma, Intensive adult psych (but I think this is a general invite)
Offered Interview Dates: 12/6 and 12/13
(In honor of last year) If & How you're staying sane: Lolzzzz
 
Official Site Name: University of Chicago Medicine
Date Invitation Received: 11/15/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Adult/Health
Offered Interview Dates: 1/3, 1/10, 1/17, and 1/24
 
Official Site Name: University of Denver Consortium.
Date Invitation Received: 11/15/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Personal Email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Mental Health Center of Denver (Child and Family Track & Early Infant Track)
Offered Interview Dates: 12/13 or 12/16
 
Has anyone gotten a rejection from the University of Minnesota Medical School? I saw a couple invites, but I haven't heard anything yet.
 
Official Site Name: Children's Hospital of Michigan
Date Invitation Received: 11/18
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Pediatric Psychology
Offered Interview Dates: December 13th, December 16th, December 19th, January 6th, January 10th
(In honor of last year) If & How you're staying sane: enjoyable activities
 
For some reason I totally spaced and didn't see that I needed to include 2 assessment reports in my application to Lucile Packard Children’s Hospital (LPCH) at Stanford and Children’s Health Council. Luckily, I got an email from the director of training on 11/16 asking for them. I guess I figure if my application was a total wash they wouldn't even ask for the reports, right?
:smack:
 
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