University of Michigan - VA Ann Arbor Consortium
Post-Doctoral Program in Psychology
The University of Michigan part of this consortium is currently accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of the American Psychological Association in clinical psychology. This part of the consortium is also accredited for specialty training in Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology within the program.
For further information about the Mental Health Track and Neuropsychology Track Fellowships in the VA Ann Arbor facility, click HERE or contact Dr. Ken Adams. For further information about the Ann Arbor VA SMITREC Fellowship, click HERE or contact Dr. Mark Ilgen.
Questions about the accreditation and the accreditation process can be addressed to the Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation, American Psychological Association, 750 First Street N.E., Washington DC, 20002 (202-336-5979)
This Consortium is a scientist-practitioner program in its training philosophy. The institutional philosophy and values of both Consortium partners are centered in normative healthcare ethical values of beneficence, non-malfeasance, and social contract in a context of public service. Its central goal and mission is to contribute to the development of competent clinical psychologists. To serve this overall goal, the training program welcomes applications from those who have graduated from clinical/counseling psychology programs. The program selects candidates whose preparation, supervisor recommendations, and perceived synergy with our program are deemed the best. By this process we identify postdoctoral fellows who have a readiness to learn how a psychologist actually practices in the fundamental tasks associated with the clinical profession. Thus, the program is designed around objectives to provide experiences in assessment, treatment, consultation, and scholarly support of practice.
Deadline for applications for the 2012-2013 training year was January 15, 2012. Submission of materials electronically (including letters of recommendation) is encouraged, but paper submissions are fine too.
To download an application, click HERE - MS-Word Document Format (updated December 1, 2011 - add APPCN numbers))
Interviews for the Adult Psychology (both UM and VA adult and SMITREC) and Child & Clinical Psychology tracks are arranged by the coordinators of those tracks, usually in late January and early February. Interviews for those interested in the neuropsychology specialty will be held at the INS meeting in Montreal in February 2012.
Within the Neuropsychology specialty, we are looking for fellows with a research emphasis in the general adult neuropsychology (APPCN 9512), pediatric neuropsychology (APPCN 9513), neuropsychology of mood disorders (APPCN 9514) and VA/Geriatric/TBI (APPCN 9515) domains (applicants can apply for any or all of these domains within Neuropsychology). To set up an interview date, contact either Dr. Linas Bieliauskas (UM fellowships) or Dr. Ken Adams (VA Fellowship) to arrange an interview time at the INS meeting in Montreal.
The fellow recruited for the Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology position will have a strong interest in programmatic research with a focus on childhood traumatic grief (the overlap of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and grief) and/or other psychological, behavioral and physiological reactions to childhood trauma.
The University of Michigan and VA Medical Center provide a rich interdisciplinary environment with seminars, invited lectures, and opportunities for collaboration with faculty across disciplines and departments. The current stipend for 1st year fellows for the 2010-2011 training year is $45,913 with health insurance options, vacation, sick leave, and travel and meeting benefits. The University of Michigan portion of the postdoctoral training program and the Neuropsychology and SMITREC fellowships at the VA Ann Arbor are two-year programs; clinical psychology fellows at the VA complete a one-year program. Second year fellows receive a stipend of $48,395. For fellows in the two-year programs, appointments are made initially for one year with a second year re-appointment being expected but at the discretion of the postdoctoral fellow and the program. Potential fellows applying to the VA part of the consortium must be US citizens. Fellows can start either on July 1, 2011 or September 1, 2011 (the former has the advantage of being the same date as the arrival of Psychiatry Residents; the latter is often necessary if fellows are finishing an internship in August). The highest ranking applicants have been those who show the most promise in terms of the scientist/practitioner goals of the training program. This means that both research and clinical experiences are important. There are also a number of competencies in the specialty criteria for Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology and Clinical Neuropsychology accreditation guidelines, and the competitiveness of a candidate will reflect, in part at least, the extent to which he or she has made progress toward these goals. We especially invite and encourage applications from members of ethnic and racial minority groups. The University of Michigan and Veterans Administration are non-discriminatory/affirmative action employers. For information and application materials, see below. If further information is needed, contact: Henry A. Buchtel, Ph.D., Director of Psychology Training, Department of Psychiatry, 2101 Commonwealth Bldv. Ste C, University of Michigan Health System, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48105, email address: gusb@umich.edu.
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