APPIC Internship Interview Invitation Thread (2020)

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Anyone hear from Children's Institute Inc? I'm thinking of sending an email since yesterday was the notification date.
 
kayem14 said:
Anyone hear from Children's Institute Inc? I'm thinking of sending an email since yesterday was the notification date.
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I have not either and considered doing the same! I know others who also have not
 
Anyone hear from Howard University? They are the last site I am waiting to hear back from and the TD said they would be sending out notifications this morning.
 
WinterMountain91 said:
Anyone hear from Howard University? They are the last site I am waiting to hear back from and the TD said they would be sending out notifications this morning.
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I'm still waiting on Howard too... and waiting to book all my other airfare 'til I hear from them - frustrating!
 
kayem14 said:
Anyone hear from Children's Institute Inc? I'm thinking of sending an email since yesterday was the notification date.
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I am still waiting. I guess it’s nice to know that others haven’t heard. But I’m assuming it’s a rejection for me based on me experience with other sites.
 
dcpsychdoc said:
I always appreciate a thoughtful thank you note. :nod:
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@dcpsychdoc: I also appreciate a thoughtful thank you note. That is why I always send some after interviews.

@ Futurephd101 Great question! I do not think sending thank you note is required or expected, but personally, I believe that it is totally okay to show your appreciation if you are so inclined.
 
Dear TDs and interviewers, please tell me your opinion on non-matching suit separates for women? I am definitely overthinking this, but I went to my first interview in a gray mix blazer and black dress pants. I looked quite professional, I thought, but I was the only one not in a matching suit. Is this a big deal, should I buy a matching suit, etc.? Please help!

EDIT: My remaining interviews are all in California, in both VAs and AMCs.
 
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A.Jo said:
Did anyone apply to Manhattan Psychiatric Center and hear from them?
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I emailed the TD yesterday. I received feedback and read that its "okay" to ask for information before the cut off especially if you're making travel arrangements. Haven't heard back yet though.
 
psyche27 said:
That’s a violation of APPIC policies for Phase I.
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Thanks for this info! I was curious so I looked it up. For those who are interested here is the link its section 6.

Match Policies

Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers, Postdoc Interns, Psychology Internships, Psych Internship Matching - APPIC
www.appic.org
 
Wow! What an awesome thread. Wish I would have known about it a few weeks ago while waiting to hear back from sites.

Here's a question for the forum: I received an invite from one of my top sites last week. The invite instructed me to contact someone and schedule my interview. (I have no idea who she is because I can't find her on the faculty list, maybe an admin assistant?) When I got the reply it suggested that the recipient thought I was male. I have a pretty unisex name but the fact that I'm a female is clearly listed on several pieces of my application materials. I'm stressing out because I know how embarrassed people get when I correct them. Normally I wouldn't worry but this happened to me when I applied to doctoral programs and the faculty were TOTALLY caught off guard when I walked in the door. Interviewing is stressful enough without the complicated discussion of how I got my name and why my parents chose it etc. etc. etc.

So #1 how do you send an email clarifying your gender so they aren't embarrassed and so I can bypass this convo?

#2 will this leave a bad taste in the TD's mouth?

#3 Am I blowing this out of proportion since it could just be that the admin got a list of names and made the assumption. (* Maybe the training directors actually read my materials and realize who I am!)
 
Hlbrown20 said:
Thanks for this info! I was curious so I looked it up. For those who are interested here is the link its section 6.

Match Policies

Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers, Postdoc Interns, Psychology Internships, Psych Internship Matching - APPIC
www.appic.org
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Nice!
 
DrMelfi said:
Wow! What an awesome thread. Wish I would have known about it a few weeks ago while waiting to hear back from sites.

Here's a question for the forum: I received an invite from one of my top sites last week. The invite instructed me to contact someone and schedule my interview. (I have no idea who she is because I can't find her on the faculty list, maybe an admin assistant?) When I got the reply it suggested that the recipient thought I was male. I have a pretty unisex name but the fact that I'm a female is clearly listed on several pieces of my application materials. I'm stressing out because I know how embarrassed people get when I correct them. Normally I wouldn't worry but this happened to me when I applied to doctoral programs and the faculty were TOTALLY caught off guard when I walked in the door. Interviewing is stressful enough without the complicated discussion of how I got my name and why my parents chose it etc. etc. etc.

So #1 how do you send an email clarifying your gender so they aren't embarrassed and so I can bypass this convo?

#2 will this leave a bad taste in the TD's mouth?

#3 Am I blowing this out of proportion since it could just be that the admin got a list of names and made the assumption. (* Maybe the training directors actually read my materials and realize who I am!)
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My admin doesn’t read the materials and isn’t involved in the interviews, but does the scheduling for me. It’s likely the person just didn’t know and made an erroneous assumption. I wouldn’t bother correcting it unless you really feel a need to do so (and would err on the side of NOT correcting it to avoid possibly leaving a bad impression before you’ve even had a chance to interview).
 
psyche27 said:
My admin doesn’t read the materials and isn’t involved in the interviews, but does the scheduling for me. It’s likely the person just didn’t know and made an erroneous assumption. I wouldn’t bother correcting it unless you really feel a need to do so (and would err on the side of NOT correcting it to avoid possibly leaving a bad impression before you’ve even had a chance to interview).
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Thank you! All the other advice i've gotten has been to call the site and let them know but my gut feeling was to leave it alone.
 
DrMelfi said:
Thank you! All the other advice i've gotten has been to call the site and let them know but my gut feeling was to leave it alone.
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Honestly, if it helps, any time we’ve interviewed someone and they weren’t the gender we assumed it’s been an opportunity for my staff to talk about implicit bias and internal perceptions and we’ve grown as a result.
 
DrMelfi said:
Wow! What an awesome thread. Wish I would have known about it a few weeks ago while waiting to hear back from sites.

Here's a question for the forum: I received an invite from one of my top sites last week. The invite instructed me to contact someone and schedule my interview. (I have no idea who she is because I can't find her on the faculty list, maybe an admin assistant?) When I got the reply it suggested that the recipient thought I was male. I have a pretty unisex name but the fact that I'm a female is clearly listed on several pieces of my application materials. I'm stressing out because I know how embarrassed people get when I correct them. Normally I wouldn't worry but this happened to me when I applied to doctoral programs and the faculty were TOTALLY caught off guard when I walked in the door. Interviewing is stressful enough without the complicated discussion of how I got my name and why my parents chose it etc. etc. etc.

So #1 how do you send an email clarifying your gender so they aren't embarrassed and so I can bypass this convo?

#2 will this leave a bad taste in the TD's mouth?

#3 Am I blowing this out of proportion since it could just be that the admin got a list of names and made the assumption. (* Maybe the training directors actually read my materials and realize who I am!)
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It was likely an admin asst. I wouldn't worry about it and I don't think there's a need to follow up!
 
For those of you who received an invitation to New York City Children's Center--Queens, has anyone from the interview committee reached out to schedule an interview date? I received the acceptance on Sunday with the TD stating that someone from the committee would reach out within the next few days to schedule an interview date, but have yet to hear from anyone. Just wondering if I'm the only one still waiting
 
Question: One of my interview schedules has a "group task" scheduled. Any tips on how to handle this?
 
psycho1391 said:
Question: One of my interview schedules has a "group task" scheduled. Any tips on how to handle this?
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I have not had great experiences with the few group interviews I've had so far - the content differed A LOT, but the general advice I've gotten is don't be overly dominant and also don't be so passive that you don't get a chance to contribute.
 
threetieredtree said:
Has anyone been given a pediatric neuropsychology vignette at a hospital site?
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I got a very basic vignette at a hospital site with a pediatric neuropsychology rotation. It seemed like they were trying to get at my thought process in planning what questions to ask during intake, diagnoses to consider and rule out, etc. Was also asked what tests I might think of administering
 
HighOnLyfe said:
For those of you who received an invitation to New York City Children's Center--Queens, has anyone from the interview committee reached out to schedule an interview date? I received the acceptance on Sunday with the TD stating that someone from the committee would reach out within the next few days to schedule an interview date, but have yet to hear from anyone. Just wondering if I'm the only one still waiting
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I am also still waiting to hear back!
 
psycho1391 said:
Question: One of my interview schedules has a "group task" scheduled. Any tips on how to handle this?
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We had a group task in one of my interviews where 12 of us were split up into 3 groups of 4 and we were given a medical case or "situation" and we had to collectively come up with a plan on how to best diagnose, treat, and make recommendations to the patient and family. I thought it was pretty cool, but there's always those 1-2 people that either make you feel really dumb for forgetting to do something obvious or the 1-2 people that you're wondering how they got the interview invitation in the first place. Either way, you learn a lot about what the program is looking for and who your competition is 😛
If you're going to speak, make sure it is about something you know...and if you don't know something, I always say "that's really an area where I hope my training here would strengthen me." BOOM.
 
neurocog said:
Sure, but even amongst Ph.D. programs, you also see variability in curricular sequence. It's understood that if one is APA-accredited that there are certain courses and content that must be covered regardless of degree type, however, most programs will vary their curriculum to an extent. I still don't see how arbitrarily dismissing Psy.D. students from a site will somehow ensure the quality of applicants for that site. I genuinely would like to know how some of these sites differ from those who do accept Psy.D.s, or even prefer Psy.D.s Do they spend more time crunching data, disseminating articles, etc.?
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Yes, I imagine these programs are more research intensive -- These sites likely offer protected research time and therefore have higher expectations of interns regarding research independence, engagement, interest, and productivity.

The PhD is a research degree, while the PsyD is a professional degree. The majority of research training that occurs within a PhD program occurs outside the classroom. It is not uncommon for other professional degree holders (e.g., MDs) interested in pursuing research-oriented careers and residency training to first complete formal training as a scientist (e.g., MD/PhD).

As I understand it, APA-accreditation requirements for research training apply only to didactic/classroom-based instruction. This is evidenced by the tremendous variability in what constitutes a "dissertation" within APA-accredited clinical psychology doctoral programs (anyone remember the raven?). The bulk of research training that occurs within a PhD program occurs via a ~4-to-6 year long research apprenticeship (i.e., the mentor-mentee relationship). This apprenticeship model of research training is facilitated by small cohort sizes, individualized/one-on-one research mentorship, and guaranteed funding, all of which are relatively rare within PsyD programs. Accordingly, to insinuate that APA-accreditation is indicative of equivalent research training across programs seems inaccurate to me.

So, my read on these PhD-only programs is that TDs are interested in admitting applicants who have completed the requirements of an apprentice-based (i.e., PhD), scientist-practitioner (or clinical scientist) degree program. My understanding is that the most research-intensive PsyD programs generally offer research training commensurate to that offered by the least research-intensive PhD programs -- To this point, I would imagine that PhD applicants with light research training/backgrounds would likely also be noncompetitive for these research heavy/PhD-only internship programs too, even though that fact might not be explicitly stated within a site's APPIC entry.

Like all things with internship, PsyD applicants who feel that they possess relatively strong research backgrounds can always reach out and ask faculty at PhD-only internship programs how rigid their inclusion/exclusion criteria are. I still think that, regardless of research training, an argument can be made for curricular-consistency (e.g., practitioner-scholar vs. scientist-practitioner) across levels of training. This seems particularly relevant given how short internship is -- That is, it might not be feasible for internship faculty to provide the level of clinical training expected of an internship program while also offering opportunities for research, if they are also having to fill in missing gaps related to research training.
 
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LAnne said:
UCSD/ San Diego VA rejection via mass email. I very much expected this one. Still 3 more sites to hear from, 2 with deadlines that have passed!
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A friend got rejected there for internship (without interview) only to get a postdoc there the next year. So, keep in mind that even the sites that reject you could be real possibilities in the postdoc process (which, sadly, starts pretty much as soon as you start internship!).
 
Has anyone received an invite to interview at IU Ball? Or has anyone contacted the site to inquire about the status of their application? Their deadline has passed, but I know that they allowed applications to be sent until 12/15. I am wondering if that is the reason why I haven't heard anything from them.
 
BeingOptimistic said:
Has anyone received an invite to interview at IU Ball? Or has anyone contacted the site to inquire about the status of their application? Their deadline has passed, but I know that they allowed applications to be sent until 12/15. I am wondering if that is the reason why I haven't heard anything from them.
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I contacted them today. The TD said they received a lot of applications and are still going through them. He said that we should hear back either today or tomorrow.
 
Anyone heard positive news from Child and Family Guidance Center in Northridge? I know someone mentioned they heard a rejection a week ago. I'm still waiting on any news and their notification date was 12/10...
 
Hlbrown20 said:
I emailed the TD yesterday. I received feedback and read that its "okay" to ask for information before the cut off especially if you're making travel arrangements. Haven't heard back yet though.
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Hi I wanted to follow up — Have you heard back from the TD?
 
DrMelfi said:
Wow! What an awesome thread. Wish I would have known about it a few weeks ago while waiting to hear back from sites.

Here's a question for the forum: I received an invite from one of my top sites last week. The invite instructed me to contact someone and schedule my interview. (I have no idea who she is because I can't find her on the faculty list, maybe an admin assistant?) When I got the reply it suggested that the recipient thought I was male. I have a pretty unisex name but the fact that I'm a female is clearly listed on several pieces of my application materials. I'm stressing out because I know how embarrassed people get when I correct them. Normally I wouldn't worry but this happened to me when I applied to doctoral programs and the faculty were TOTALLY caught off guard when I walked in the door. Interviewing is stressful enough without the complicated discussion of how I got my name and why my parents chose it etc. etc. etc.

So #1 how do you send an email clarifying your gender so they aren't embarrassed and so I can bypass this convo?

#2 will this leave a bad taste in the TD's mouth?

#3 Am I blowing this out of proportion since it could just be that the admin got a list of names and made the assumption. (* Maybe the training directors actually read my materials and realize who I am!)
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I'm messaging you
 
Official Site Name: Manhattan Psychiatric Center
Date Invitation Received: 12/20
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): phone call
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): N/A
Offered Interview Dates: open house 12/15 and 12/21, interview dates are scheduled based on your availability

The TD said they are calling out of town people first (I’m in Cali) so if you are local don’t panic you’re call could be coming!
 
MichSim said:
Official Site Name: Manhattan Psychiatric Center
Date Invitation Received: 12/20
Method of Invitation (Phone call, personal/mass email, snapchat): phone call
Specialty Track or Site (e.g., for consortiums): N/A
Offered Interview Dates: open house 12/15 and 12/21, interview dates are scheduled based on your availability

The TD said they are calling out of town people first (I’m in Cali) so if you are local don’t panic you’re call could be coming!
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Are you replying about Pacific C
 
I have an interview coming up at Nicklaus Children's Hospital that I think includes group interviews. Has anyone had these? I'm not sure what to expect from a group interview, but I generally do not do well in large group settings so feeling a bit anxious.
 
DrMelfi said:
Thank you! All the other advice i've gotten has been to call the site and let them know but my gut feeling was to leave it alone.
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I don’t know if this has been suggested I’m sorry if this is redundant but a lot of people put their preferred gender pronouns as one of the lines of their signature so you could consider if that is something you would be comfortable adding and then it would be there in your email when you reply
 
psychboo said:
Dear TDs and interviewers, please tell me your opinion on non-matching suit separates for women? I am definitely overthinking this, but I went to my first interview in a gray mix blazer and black dress pants. I looked quite professional, I thought, but I was the only one not in a matching suit. Is this a big deal, should I buy a matching suit, etc.? Please help!

EDIT: My remaining interviews are all in California, in both VAs and AMCs.
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You are doing just fine. My only recommendation is that if YOU are uncomfortable, then change what you are wearing. Hang in!
 
psychboo said:
Dear TDs and interviewers, please tell me your opinion on non-matching suit separates for women? I am definitely overthinking this, but I went to my first interview in a gray mix blazer and black dress pants. I looked quite professional, I thought, but I was the only one not in a matching suit. Is this a big deal, should I buy a matching suit, etc.? Please help!

EDIT: My remaining interviews are all in California, in both VAs and AMCs.
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So not an issue at California VAs.
 
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