The Psychology Department at University of Vermont Medical Center expects to have 4 internship positions available, two in child/adolescent and pediatric psychology and two in adult medical psychology. Positions begin in July 2024. The University of Vermont Medical Center serves a population of more than 1 million people in Vermont and northern New York, is home to the University of Vermont Children’s Hospital, and provides a full range of inpatient and outpatient services across 10 Vermont Locations.
The aim of the UVMMC Clinical Psychology Internship program is to provide generalist training focused on delivering services to rural populations in an intellectually stimulating and respectful environment that prepares interns to deliver effective, entry level psychological services to diverse populations in multidisciplinary settings across a continuum of care. We also strive to offer students opportunities to explore and gain experience in more specialized service areas to enhance their understanding of themselves as clinicians and inform their future training and career choices.
The internship follows a Practitioner-Scholar Model that provides psychology interns the skills and training necessary to become successful practitioners of child, adolescent, and/or adult psychology, with an emphasis on delivering psychological services within a rural medical center setting. The program is a one-year, full-time placement with a focus in either pediatric and child/adolescent clinical psychology or adult clinical rotations. Interns will be expected to work 40 to 50 hours per week. Typically, the training year will begin in July and end in June.
Adult Medical Psychology: Interns will provide consultation/liaison services to the inpatient medical units as well as to outpatient subspecialty clinics (i.e. hematology/oncology and behavioral sleep medicine) including brief diagnostic interviews, consultation with the medical teams, ongoing inpatient psychotherapy, attendance at multidisciplinary care conferences, and multidisciplinary rounds. We have added a year-long experience learning about Liberation Psychology with the opportunity to carry a small outpatient caseload utilizing Liberation approaches to treatment.
Pediatric and Child/Adoloscent Clinical Psychology: We operate in a largely resource challenged area and provide not only direct service but consultation to services across the region. We provide generalist training in clinical child/adolescent and pediatric psychology to better serve the diverse needs of our community.
Training will focus on providing evidence-based behavioral health services for pediatric populations in academic medical center inpatient and outpatient settings. Interns will provide consultation/liaison to medical teams, brief assessment and intervention services to hospitalized children and adolescents and their families, and attend multidisciplinary rounds and care conferences. They will also offer services in outpatient multidisciplinary subspecialty clinics (e.g., CF, hem/onc, IBD, endocrinology, and transgender). They will also have the opportunity to work with psychiatric patients "boarding" in the Emergency Department.
Interns will be provided with a range of didactic experiences and mentoring to ensure core competencies are met and to help prepare interns for transition into entry level psychologist positions. Please see our Intern Handbook located on our website, for further details about the program.
