The Psychology Coaching Program on the Jesse Brown VA Medical Heart (JBVAMC) presents Medical Psychology Predoctoral Internships and Medical Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowships, in addition to Medical Psychology Externships as a part of the Medical Psychology Practicum for doctoral trainees. Please see beneath for additional data relating to every of those particular coaching choices.
The Jesse Brown VAMC is dedicated to recruiting and retaining a various work power and appreciates the advantages of getting trainees and employees that characterize a big selection of various teams throughout quite a lot of domains. We worth the distinctive contributions supplied by people with various cultural and private traits and experiences. We perceive that these variations enhance the local weather of the office, contribute to extra significant conversations, and improve the standard of coaching and the companies offered to Veterans. Chicago is house to a big and various inhabitants, and we acknowledge the complicated and multidimensional identities that Veterans embody after they enter our doorways. JBVAMC takes satisfaction in treating the entire Veteran all through their restoration journey. We strongly encourage people with minoritized identities to use.
Director of Psychology Coaching
Jamie Mathews, Psy.D.
Electronic mail: vhachspsychologytraining@va.gov
Psychology Predoctoral Internship Program
Software Deadline for the 2023-2024 coaching 12 months: November 2, 2022
Variety of Positions Obtainable: 6 throughout 4 tracks (3 Normal, 1 Acute Disaster Intervention, 1 Well being Psychology, and 1 Neuropsychology)
The JBVAMC Medical Psychology Internship Program is totally accredited by the Fee on Accreditation (CoA) of the American Psychological Affiliation (APA) and adheres to the rules of the Affiliation of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Facilities (APPIC). Our internship program adheres to a scientist-practitioner mannequin of medical coaching. Empirical help of medical work and coaching is extremely valued in our program, which mixes each experiential and didactic coaching. Throughout the tracks of this system, mentorship of the entire intern is extremely valued as this system seeks to develop its interns’ competencies within the supply of a broad vary of psychological companies and actions.
In keeping with VA coverage, internship funding will be offered solely to college students who’re U.S. residents and are enrolled in APA-accredited doctoral applications in medical or counseling psychology. As well as, we require {that a} potential intern’s college advisor or director of coaching confirm that they approve and advocate that the coed obtain an internship at this facility as specified on the APPIC “Tutorial Program’s Verification of Internship Eligibility and Readiness” kind. Solely 52-week, full-time internships can be found.
Medical Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship Program
Severe Psychological Sickness Observe for the 2022-2023 Coaching 12 months: Open till crammed (last software deadline is July 1, 2022)
Software Deadline for the 2023-2024 Coaching 12 months: January 2, 2023
PTSD-Ache-SUD Observe
Variety of Positions Obtainable: 2 (please word positions already crammed for 2022-2023 coaching 12 months)
The JBVAMC trains two fellows for our 1-year postdoctoral program in psychology geared toward offering interprofessional training (IPE) within the therapy and evaluation of post-traumatic stress dysfunction, ache, and substance use dysfunction. Fellows develop competencies in clinically addressing these diagnoses individually, with reliance on empirically primarily based practices (EBPs), with comorbidity amongst them being a specific emphasis. A number of healthcare disciplines are leveraged to offer the fellows session and didactic experiences on these subjects, and collaboration with non-psychologist healthcare suppliers is a spotlight of the coaching 12 months. The aim of this program is to arrange fellows to emerge from this system totally ready to independently follow in an interdisciplinary, collaborative care setting within the VHA, with competencies of delivering companies utilizing a culturally delicate, patient-centered strategy.
Severe Psychological Sickness
Variety of Positions Obtainable: 1 (please word 1 place stays obtainable for the 2022-2023 coaching 12 months)
The JBVAMC trains one fellow for our 1-year postdoctoral program in psychology geared toward offering interprofessional training (IPE) within the evaluation and therapy of significant psychological sickness (SMI), together with schizophrenia-spectrum issues, extreme, continual temper issues, and extreme PTSD. The man develops competencies in clinically addressing these diagnoses utilizing empirically primarily based practices (EBPs). A number of healthcare disciplines are leveraged to offer the man session and didactic experiences on these subjects, and collaboration with non-psychologist healthcare suppliers is a spotlight of the coaching 12 months. The aim of this program is to arrange the man to emerge from this system totally ready to independently follow in an interdisciplinary, collaborative care setting within the VHA, with competencies in delivering companies to people with SMI utilizing a culturally delicate, patient-centered strategy.
Medical Psychology Externship Program
Software Deadline: Dates to be introduced for the 2023-2024 coaching 12 months; all positions have been crammed for the 2022-2023 coaching 12 months
The JBVAMC Medical Psychology Externship Program is a longstanding part of our coaching program, courting again a number of many years. This program is designed to offer roughly one 12 months’s practicum coaching to graduate college students enrolled in APA-accredited doctoral applications. Though the majority of our externs up to now have been college students enrolled among the many 15 APA-accredited medical and counseling psychology applications within the Chicago space, externs from different states have additionally been identified to take part in our coaching program.
JBVAMC’s externship program adheres to a scientist-practitioner mannequin of medical coaching. Empirical help of medical work and coaching is extremely valued in our program, which mixes each experiential and didactic coaching. Potential externs apply to particular rotations chosen from a number of choices on the time of software in order that coaching experiences can finest be matched to candidates’ pursuits and profession aims.
Most externship experiences are structured as both year-long or two 6-month rotations. All externs are anticipated to serve 16-20 hours every week, together with a 1-hour didactic, which traditionally has been held on Friday afternoons. Externships are unpaid. A pre-specified allowance of go away is given for illness, deliberate absence, and making use of for internship, if relevant.
