Current and previous Interns, how many face-to-face hours did you get?

[Rivi]

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Hello everyone,

How many face to face hours would you suggest getting on internship? I am looking at a bunch of different states and noticed that many of them have different hour requirements (i.e., 2000 overall, 1750 overall). Some states require a pretty high number of face to face hours (i.e., 1000), while others are pretty low (500). Ideally, I would like to get enough hours to satisfy every state requirement, but with working on my dissertation, I am not sure if it would be worth it to accrue that number of hours if I don't necessarily have to. Any thoughts on this?

 

[WisNeuro]

Hello everyone,

How many face to face hours would you suggest getting on internship? I am looking at a bunch of different states and noticed that many of them have different hour requirements (i.e., 2000 overall, 1750 overall). Some states require a pretty high number of face to face hours (i.e., 1000), while others are pretty low (500). Ideally, I would like to get enough hours to satisfy every state requirement, but with working on my dissertation, I am not sure if it would be worth it to accrue that number of hours if I don't necessarily have to. Any thoughts on this?

I think you are reading this incorrectly. This is probably total hours expected on the internship. If you acquired 2000 face to face hours on a 1-year internship, you would need like 38 face to face hours a week. I don't see where that leaves too much time for notes, supervision, lunch, bathroom breaks, etc. Most states say a 2000 hour internship, so that includes everything, face to face, notes, reports, supervision, etc. Also, check to see what they want in total, some states allow so many predoc hours to count towards the total, while some want so many only being from postdoc.

 

[AcronymAllergy]

I would imagine this is something that'll be set primarily by the internship site itself, as they'll likely have ideas as to what sorts of minimum case loads they'll want for interns. I know that was the case with me, at least--each rotation had a set schedule to which they required interns adhere, whether it was number of assessment cases or therapy patients to see per week.

Edit: Also, what WisNeuro said.

Edit2: And when in doubt, look for the most-restrictive requirement for states where you might work and aim for that.

 

[erg923]

500. I had 650, i think.

 

[KillerDiller]

Doesn't APA require 2000 in order to accredit an internship? Anyway, you probably won't have a lot of control over how many hours you put in at the vast majority of established sites. Aim for 2000+ total hours and over 500 face to face hours, unless your state requires more of the latter.