APPIC Internship Interview Invitation Thread (2020)

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Psych_ology25 said:
Me neither lol. I have never heard of someone having to write something during the interview!
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It sure is odd. My doctoral program required us to read an article then write an analysis as we waited to go into our individual interviews.
 
Appleblossom said:
Southern IL-Carbondale CAPS interview invite, mass email sent 12/12, need to send return email to schedule skype meeting first part of january
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If you don't live or haven't lived there and have question, feel free to PM me. I grew up in that area and my parents live nearby!
 
Official Site Name: Memphis VA
Date Invitation Received: 12/12/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Personal Email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums):N/A
Offered Interview Dates: (Half-day interviews 8:00am - 1:30pm): 1/10, 1/13, 1/24, 1/27.

Phew, last pending invite. No more vigilantly checking the inbox. Exhale.
 
psychofforen said:
Has anyone heard from the VA in Augusta or South Florida State Hospital? Also, can someone confirm that the Orlando VA sent out invites already so I should just have them in my rejection list?
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I have a friend who applied to the VA in Augusta who hasn't heard anything and we both applied to South Florida State Hospital with no news either. Their notification date is tomorrow I think! Orlando VA did send out invites as well. I have a feeling tomorrow is going to be a BIG day for news one way or another 🙂
 
Forensicologist said:
I have a friend who applied to the VA in Augusta who hasn't heard anything and we both applied to South Florida State Hospital with no news either. Their notification date is tomorrow I think! Orlando VA did send out invites as well. I have a feeling tomorrow is going to be a BIG day for news one way or another 🙂
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I just saw in the original list that Augusta sent out texts (wtf?) on 11/26 & 11/27 sooo I guess that's that.
 
So question...if I go into round 2, can I apply to sites that initially rejected me for an interview? Or just new sites altogether? I know someone that had an interview round 1 and interviewed with them again round 2 and matched, but I wasn't sure about an initial rejection.
 
Official Site Name: Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center
Date Invitation Received: 12/12/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Not specified, but I applied for the Pediatric track
Offered Interview Dates (in-person): Tuesday January 7, Friday January 17, Monday January 20, Tuesday, January 21, Wednesday January 22
 
averagehuman said:
I remember seeing in an earlier page that someone posted match rates by number of interviews received. I can't find the page. Would someone please repost that info?

Also, if there is a link to the original source, that would be great--I couldn't find it in the match statistics released by APPIC.
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PsyAccountApps said:
Official Site Name: Memphis VA
Date Invitation Received: 12/12/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): Personal Email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums):N/A
Offered Interview Dates: (Half-day interviews 8:00am - 1:30pm): 1/10, 1/13, 1/24, 1/27.

Phew, last pending invite. No more vigilantly checking the inbox. Exhale.
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Ah, I'm still waiting on this one (and 3 other sites). But personal emails take longer, so maybe mine's coming soon!
Congrats! I know people who have completed internship and post-doc there and really loved it!
 
Toulouse said:
Ah, I'm still waiting on this one (and 3 other sites). But personal emails take longer, so maybe mine's coming soon!
Congrats! I know people who have completed internship and post-doc there and really loved it!
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I’m also waiting to hear from them (and 2 others).

I’ve heard great things!
 
TCP said:
Has anyone already been through at least one interview that would like to share a difficult interview question you were asked that caused you to stumble?

I have practiced the basic questions about my professional/personal goals, interests, research, strengths/weaknesses, clinical cases, so I feel I have a general understanding of what my answers will be. I am most worried about the random ones that will throw me off the ball. 🙈
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I attended 6 interviews 2 years ago and got a range of questions -

Most difficult case, describe a crisis your client/patient has experienced, worst supervisory experience, Describe why this is an ethical dilemma and in which way (with vignette), given a neurospsych vignette and asked for a diagnosis, given some MMPI scores and asked to interpret (that was terrifying!), What do you see most challenging here should you match, how do you know when you're stressed.....the MMPI one freaked me out lol
 
Mountain Climber said:
Official Site Name: Canvas Health
Date Invitation Received: 12/12/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Child Track
Offered Interview Dates: call on Monday to schedule a 60-90min. interview in January.

Official Site Name: Pacific Psychology and Comprehensive Health Clinics
Date Invitation Received: 12/11/19
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): mass email
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): Youth and Family Track
Offered Interview Dates: 1/10 only - no skype or phone.
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Dang - I haven't heard from Pacific Psychology and Comprehensive Health Clinic :shrug:
 
MichSim said:
I had a written section during my interview yesterday. About 3 of my interviews mentioned in the interview email that there would be a written section. Honestly I full on panicked when I read that but it wasn’t that bad.
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What types of sites required writing samples? Were any of them VAs? All my interviews are VAs, general track, so I'm hoping the interviews will be fairly straightforward (and not like a test).
 
affectiveH3art said:
Wait....so someone with 14+ offers has lower rate of matching??? HUH? (in reference to the graph of interview offers and match)
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I've heard too many interviews can be as bad as or worse than too few. If there's too many, then scheduling is complicated, and the travel and interview process can be very expensive, exhausting, and stressful, which can come across during the actual interview. Maybe if people have fewer interviews, they present as less tired and more eager/enthusiastic? I've known people who matched well with 1 interview, and I've also known people who did not match despite having 15+ interviews.
 
Has anyone reached out after a rejection for feedback and found it helpful? A training director (in a rejection email) said that if there were any questions about the selection process to reach out. I would like feedback on my application to know what could be improved, but also don't want to be a bother.
 
affectiveH3art said:
I attended 6 interviews 2 years ago and got a range of questions -

Most difficult case, describe a crisis your client/patient has experienced, worst supervisory experience, Describe why this is an ethical dilemma and in which way (with vignette), given a neurospsych vignette and asked for a diagnosis, given some MMPI scores and asked to interpret (that was terrifying!), What do you see most challenging here should you match, how do you know when you're stressed.....the MMPI one freaked me out lol
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I’m assuming the sites that asked you to interpret assessment data were more focused on psychological testing than therapy?
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I just hope I get at least one more....I applied to 11 and I'm sitting over here with only 1 offer.

Waiting on Avondale, Guilford, Lewisville, and The School at Columbia.
 
MichSim said:
I had a written section during my interview yesterday. About 3 of my interviews mentioned in the interview email that there would be a written section. Honestly I full on panicked when I read that but it wasn’t that bad.
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That’s intense but at least they gave you a heads up. What kinds of sites did this, hospitals?
 
It's been super quiet over here! Anyone heard from:

Mount Sinai Services at Elmhurst Hospital
Mount Sinai Adolescent Health Center
Westchester Jewish Community Services

Thanks 🙂
 
Toulouse said:
I wonder how much those numbers have changed since there is no longer such a huge discrepancy between number of applicants and number of internship positions.
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Good questions because the data is from 2009- 2011 (published in 2014), that's a while ago and a lot has changed since then.
 
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