Private Practice Question

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Does anyone know how long to wait until starting your own private practice after getting your PhD? Is it smart to wait and get experience? If so, how much is enough?

What if you want to get involved in someone else's practice that is already up and running? Do you need just as much experience?

In addition to getting licensed, how long do you have to be supervised by another psychologist before you can practice privately?

Thanks in advance for your help!

 

[sasevan]

Does anyone know how long to wait until starting your own private practice after getting your PhD? Is it smart to wait and get experience? If so, how much is enough?

What if you want to get involved in someone else's practice that is already up and running? Do you need just as much experience?

In addition to getting licensed, how long do you have to be supervised by another psychologist before you can practice privately?

Thanks in advance for your help!

I think getting experience post-licensure prior to going into solo private practice is usually the case because one generally needs to be on insurance panels and have other established referral bases before hanging a shingle.

In FL, once a psych is licensed one does not need any further supervision unless one wants to start practicing in an area in which one had minimal or no training; some of this is legal and some is ethical, e.g. to do forensic examinations one needs, by State regulation, specialized training post-lic; IMO it would be unethical to conduct neuropsych evals without added supervised training post-lic if one did not receive this pre-lic, however, this is not a State reg.

I believe the usual route is to work in a salaried position and slowly develop a solo practice. That salaried position could be in a med ctr, mh clinic, counseling ctr, psych dept, or even in a group private practice-which often facilitates getting into insurance networks otherwise closed to solo practitioners. At least that's what I did. 😉
Peace.

 

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I think getting experience post-licensure prior to going into solo private practice is usually the case because one generally needs to be on insurance panels and have other established referral bases before hanging a shingle.

In FL, once a psych is licensed one does not need any further supervision unless one wants to start practicing in an area in which one had minimal or no training; some of this is legal and some is ethical, e.g. to do forensic examinations one needs, by State regulation, specialized training post-lic; IMO it would be unethical to conduct neuropsych evals without added supervised training post-lic if one did not receive this pre-lic, however, this is not a State reg.

I believe the usual route is to work in a salaried position and slowly develop a solo practice. That salaried position could be in a med ctr, mh clinic, counseling ctr, psych dept, or even in a group private practice-which often facilitates getting into insurance networks otherwise closed to solo practitioners. At least that's what I did. 😉
Peace.

Good to have you back, sas! Have you seen the RxP threads in the psychiatry forum -- things have been a bit hostile lately.

How's prep for med school? I did see that "?" after "future psychiatrist" in another post. How's private practice? Money ok?

 

[sasevan]

Good to have you back, sas! Have you seen the RxP threads in the psychiatry forum -- things have been a bit hostile lately.

How's prep for med school? I did see that "?" after "future psychiatrist" in another post. How's private practice? Money ok?

Hey PH,

really busy lately with my last sem of pre-med reqs and filling out AMCAS/AACOMAS.
took MCAT in April prior to taking org II and phy II (hopefully it won't come back to bite me in the ass) so I could go for early admission.
looking forward to a year break from academic study (since 1998)-though i'll probably audit A & P, microbio, and biochem sometime prior to med school.
hope u did well on step 1.

private prac has been good to me in that it has allowed me the flex time to do pre-med; pay is ok if u consider 70k annual gross for 40hr/wk ok. i may pursue a position at a hosp or prison after aug while keeping a private prac on the side-currently being recruited for a chief psych job at one but pay is 63k-though it does have benefits.

anyway, keep the (RxP) faith...and pass it on. 😎

 

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Hey PH,

really busy lately with my last sem of pre-med reqs and filling out AMCAS/AACOMAS.
took MCAT in April prior to taking org II and phy II (hopefully it won't come back to bite me in the ass) so I could go for early admission.
looking forward to a year break from academic study (since 1998)-though i'll probably audit A & P, microbio, and biochem sometime prior to med school.
hope u did well on step 1.

private prac has been good to me in that it has allowed me the flex time to do pre-med; pay is ok if u consider 70k annual gross for 40hr/wk ok. i may pursue a position at a hosp or prison after aug while keeping a private prac on the side-currently being recruited for a chief psych job at one but pay is 63k-though it does have benefits.

anyway, keep the (RxP) faith...and pass it on. 😎

Awesome...good to hear that things are moving along!