In addition to the Clinical Psychology Internship Program, the Department of Psychiatry and Psychology has a fully accredited four year Residency Training Program in General Psychiatry. Interns work with psychiatric residents on outpatient cases and in the treatment teams of inpatient units. Instructors for seminars are drawn not only from the Division of Psychology but also from the psychiatric and social work staffs as well as several experts from outside the hospital. Supervising psychologists are doctorally trained, experienced and licensed persons, several of whom are graduates of or candidates in postdoctoral institutes of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy or child studies. Several of the senior people hold university faculty appointments.
Psychologists fulfill both training and service functions.
They are assigned to many areas throughout the hospital including the Child Development Center, Child Psychiatry Unit, Ambulatory Mental Health Services, Psychiatric Inpatient Services, Pediatrics, and Rehabilitation Medicine. Psychiatrists and psychologists work together on a variety of committees for such purposes as developing the training goals, content and schedules of both the psychiatry residency and psychology intern training programs and for the continual evaluation of administrative patterns which influence the effective delivery of a wide range of patient services. The Psychology Division also has a very active Psychology Externship Program. Many of our staff teach and supervise psychology externs in addition to psychiatric residents, medical students, and nursing personnel. Required experiences are in general clinical psychology and elective assignments are in specialty areas.