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Introduction
The Clinical Psychology Internship Program is part of the
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Eastern Virginia Medical School. The
predoctoral internship in psychology was founded in 1976 as one of the graduate training
programs of the Eastern Virginia Medical School. It has maintained full and continuous
accreditation by the American Psychological Association since 1983, and provides training
for six to seven interns each academic year.
General Description
The Internship subscribes to an apprenticeship model of
training which encourages the growth of individual strengths, provides a variety of
teaching styles and professional models, and emphasizes the development of the
scientist-practitioner. Specific training goals include further development of assessment
and psychotherapy skills with a wide range of client populations through involvement in
diversified inpatient and outpatient activities.
Interns are also expected to develop leadership and
consultative skills within a medical center setting, and function as part of a
multi-disciplinary treatment team. Professional development through lectures, seminars,
and workshops, and opportunities for clinical research are provided during training.
Clinical settings also provide for an opportunity to integrate ethical and administrative
issues into an appreciation for treatment issues.
The intern can expect to complete the year with solid
general clinical training and a realistic sense of competence commensurate with this stage
of training. The major rotation sequence focuses on the development of basic clinical
skills. The intern may explore specialty areas through the choice of elective minor
rotations and in outpatient work.
Curriculum
The intern completes two major rotations, each lasting
six months, and typically consisting of assignment to one inpatient unit. The choices
include adult inpatient psychiatry, and
rehabilitative medicine/ neuropsychology. The intern spends approximately 32 hours per
week in the major rotation. The major rotations provide opportunities for conducting
personality, intellectual, and neuropsychological assessments; participating in a
multi-disciplinary treatment team; and providing group, family, and/or individual
psychotherapy.
Minor rotations are optional and are tailored to meet the
individual intern's needs. They are generally limited to four hours per week. Permission
to do a minor rotation involves the joint approval of the intern's major rotation
supervisor and the internship director. Minor rotations can be developed in virtually any
area within the medical school. Minors offered in the past have included behavioral
medicine, child and adolescent neuropsychology, off-site child and adolescent residential
psychotherapy, sleep disorders, clinical research, and outpatient psychotherapy
concentrations.
All interns carry a limited outpatient caseload which
provides an opportunity for longer term therapy than that permitted by six-month
rotations. Efforts are made to assign supervisors based on the intern's interests with
respect to therapeutic modality and patient population.
Hour-long seminars are taught or facilitated by full-time
and community members of the Medical School faculty. Series vary from year to year and
have typically included behavioral medicine, child and adolescent assessment and
psychotherapy, cognitive-behavioral psychotherapy, sleep disorders, neuropsychology,
ethics, professional development, and advanced personality assessment.
Application Information
Application and interview information
and procedures are available
here.
For more information, contact:
Director, Clinical Psychology Internship
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
P.O. Box 1980
Norfolk, VA 23501
757-446-5881
757-446-5918 (Fax)
psychint@evms.edu
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