Serenade, if you're asking for yourself in trying to decide on masters programs that will improve your chances to get into a research-oriented clinical doctoral program, in my opinion this program as it is described will not be especially helpful, and in fact might make admissions folks wary in the same way that a practice-based masters makes them wary (i.e., faculty at research-oriented programs often wonder if a person with a non-research masters degree is actually interested in research).
It seems that this MPS program is quite new, and its goals do seem to be to expose students to a clinical science "approach", but the exposure seems to be more conceptual through coursework and there is very little evidence of actual research training within the program. Yes, MCParent, of course a student COULD find research opportunities, but they don't appear to be built into the program itself.
One even lower bar for a masters program to count as a program that actually prepares students for doctoral programs is to consider whether a student with no prior training in psychology (i.e., majored in something else for undergrad) could complete all basic required pre-doctoral psychology coursework within the masters program. Unless this program has figured out how to comprehensively teach both statistics and experimental methods within a single semester (3hrs/wk, 12 week duration) of "Research Methods in Clinical Psychology", the program doesn't even seem to offer stats, and it definitely does not offer breadth courses in other subareas of psychology. The site gracefully sidesteps this issue by stating that the program "can serve as academic preparation for those interested in pursuing further doctoral training in clinical or counseling psychology"; note that the site does not promise comprehensive nor sufficient academic preparation for doctoral applications.
No GRE required, no statement of class size (especially relative to the very small faculty), the "capstone" appears to be a lit review, etc. As a continuing education/extension school offering, I think the program probably delivers exactly what it says (if you read the language very carefully). I could see someone wanting to learn the clinical science approach conceptually to augment other training. The reason I'm taking the time to read and write more about it is because I don't think most potential applicants read between the lines, and it bothers me when students spend money and time on programs from which they'll only get a solid training experience if they fight for it themselves (and apparently figure out how to take additional classes outside the program).
