In addition, students take courses in advanced areas of general clinical psychology and clinical neuropsychology. At this level there is more flexibility in course selection and 21 credits or seven courses may be taken as electives. View the list of courses leading to the Ph.D. degree corresponding to the 3rd, 4th, and 5th years. The clinical practicum or clerkship is an integral part of the Clinical Psychology Graduate Program. It was developed to provide breadth of training as well as the development of specific skills in clinical psychology with an emphasis or specialty in neuropsychology.
Clinical clerkships are a means of training professional psychologists.
Graduate students, typically in their second and third years of the program, are placed throughout the greater Philadelphia area and Delaware Valley in medical centers, general hospitals, geriatric centers, psychiatric facilities and rehabilitation hospitals. These are 12 month placements for 24 hours per week. In these clinical settings, students work directly under the supervision of some of the most well known clinical psychologists and clinical neuropsychologists in the United States in both direct patient care and research endeavors within a scientist-practitioner model. The program will allow a maximum of two students to apply to any one internship site during the same year. In no case can a student consider an employment position as a staff member at a work setting as an internship placement.