How common is it...

[dcc777]

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...to pursue your post-doc where you do internship?

OR to get a job where you got your post doc?

Just curious. Entering a clinical phd program next month in Colorado (if that matters) and thinking a bit more ahead. Thanks 🙂

 

[roubs]

...to pursue your post-doc where you do internship?

OR to get a job where you got your post doc?

Just curious. Entering a clinical phd program next month in Colorado (if that matters) and thinking a bit more ahead. Thanks 🙂

I've heard of it happening several times in my program, and beyond that it seems very likely that a connection you make at one of those places helps you get a job, so even if it's not at your exact site it may be at the university or hospital down the road.

 

[Pragma]

Postdoc where you intern: probably less common, but it happens. Some programs actually have the internship and postdoc put together as a package.

Job where you postdoc: Yes all the time it happens, as othes have mentioned. So be nice 🙂

 

[paramour]

Postdoc where you intern: probably less common, but it happens. Some programs actually have the internship and postdoc put together as a package.

Job where you postdoc: Yes all the time it happens, as othes have mentioned. So be nice 🙂

Damn, Pragma, you suck out all my fun! 😛

It seems like we've had a few students over the past few years who have accepted postdocs where they interned, but I think I know more who went some place different.

 

[Ollie123]

Doing post-doc where you intern seems more common for the academically-inclined than others, at least from what I have seen. I'd guess this is at least partly due to research folks going to research-y internships, which tend to have far more funding for post-docs (i.e. can simply afford to take more post-docs than many purely clinical sites). Similarly, a lot of these places are actively recruiting for post-doc on internship interviews. I've had faculty at internship sites encourage me to apply there while all but saying the internship doesn't matter and I should be applying there primarily to stay as post-doc.

 

[Pragma]

Damn, Pragma, you suck out all my fun! 😛

It seems like we've had a few students over the past few years who have accepted postdocs where they interned, but I think I know more who went some place different.

You'd be surprised how many people struggle to "be nice" on postdoc, and heck, even internship. But at least you need internship to graduate. Most people who I know despised being on postdoc, and I got a lot of advice to avoid postdoc unless licensure was that important to me. I know more than one person who left their postdoc due to being unhappy. Call it entitelment if you want, but you have your PhD and continue to work (a lot) for essentially peanuts. In my case, I felt that the 2 year extension to my initial 5 years of training rounded it out to an even 7, solely so that it is directly comparable to historic terms of "indentured servitude."

It's pretty bogus how much money they made off of me (which I happen to know). That said, I was still nice, and they would have kept me on if I wanted to stay.

Doing post-doc where you intern seems more common for the academically-inclined than others, at least from what I have seen. I'd guess this is at least partly due to research folks going to research-y internships, which tend to have far more funding for post-docs (i.e. can simply afford to take more post-docs than many purely clinical sites). Similarly, a lot of these places are actively recruiting for post-doc on internship interviews. I've had faculty at internship sites encourage me to apply there while all but saying the internship doesn't matter and I should be applying there primarily to stay as post-doc.

Yeah good points to both of you about internship to postdoc. Come to think of it, the only cases I can think of were at research heavy places. Those postdocs also can be more informal/word-of-mouth. For example, I know several neuropsych postdocs who didn't go through the match, but landed at AMCs where large grants allowed them to keep seeing patient's enough to satisfy Houston Conference guidelines, but get the job funded because their patients were a part of research studies. Sometimes these were additional positions at sites where they did participate in the match for other slots - so all of the other training compenents were already there.

 

[Shatani]

...to pursue your post-doc where you do internship?

OR to get a job where you got your post doc?

Just curious. Entering a clinical phd program next month in Colorado (if that matters) and thinking a bit more ahead. Thanks 🙂

i did all those things....i still work there now.