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I am interested in being a neuropsychologist in a hospital setting, both clinical and helping out with research studies, as well as and maybe doing some forensic work on the side. I am especially interested in the neuropsychology of psychiatric illness- ie is Mary seeing martians because she's schizophrenic or did she injure her occipital lobe? I've been testing patients for the past 5 years and absolutely love it.
I have some interviews at clinical psych PhD programs with different emphases on neuropsych. One school has a totally separate track for neuropsychology, one offers a neuropsych "specialization" within the clinical psych program, and another offers a few neuropsych classes but no specific neuropsych differentiation.
I have heard from different people that I should take many general classes now and concentrate on neuropsych during my post doc so as to not limit my choices, but others have said to focus on neuropsych more if I'm sure that's what I want to do. What do YOU think?
If it matters, my undergraduate background was in neuroscience and I have actually taken very few psychology classes (I took mostly biology and chemistry and only 2 psych classes that weren't physiologically oriented).
Thanks!
I have some interviews at clinical psych PhD programs with different emphases on neuropsych. One school has a totally separate track for neuropsychology, one offers a neuropsych "specialization" within the clinical psych program, and another offers a few neuropsych classes but no specific neuropsych differentiation.
I have heard from different people that I should take many general classes now and concentrate on neuropsych during my post doc so as to not limit my choices, but others have said to focus on neuropsych more if I'm sure that's what I want to do. What do YOU think?
If it matters, my undergraduate background was in neuroscience and I have actually taken very few psychology classes (I took mostly biology and chemistry and only 2 psych classes that weren't physiologically oriented).
Thanks!