How to Apply — Clinical Health Psychology Doctoral Internship at St. Rita's Medical Center
Application Deadline
All applications must be submitted by Nov. 5. Applications will be reviewed as they are accepted. Final decisions regarding interviews will be made by Dec. 15. Interviews will be held in-person or via Zoom on dedicated interview dates in December and January. Interviews will be a half-day and will include individual interviews, group interviews, etc. Lunch will be provided.
The internship site agrees to abide by the APPIC policy that no one at the site will solicit, accept or use any ranking-related information from any application prior to Match Day. If we will not consider an applicant for an interview, we will notify them as soon as possible after we have made that decision. If we rank applicants for the Match, we will not give them information as to their place on the match list. We use the electronic application process and application that can be found on the APPIC website.
Application Requirements
Applicants will need to submit an electronic application through APPIC. The application and application process can be found at http://www.appic.org/.Applicants will be provided with a copy of the program’s training manual upon application submission and prior to interviews.
Candidate Eligibility
All applicants must meet the following requirements:
- You should have completed all pre-doctoral coursework and practica before internship. We do not require that you have completed your dissertation but do prefer that applicants have proposed their dissertations.
- Be in good standing in a clinical, counseling, health or neuropsychology doctoral program that is either APA accredited or listed in the National Register and remain in good standing throughout the internship.
- Be certified by that program’s training director as ready for internship and free from behavioral difficulties likely to interfere with the applicant’s ability to perform the duties of an intern.
- Have completed 1,000 hours of practicum experience prior to the beginning of the internship. This is inclusive of all practicum hours (including supervision and support hours) and is not only face-to-face hours.
- Be able to read and write standard American English and be fluent in spoken English.
To view our full list of internship admissions, support and placement data, please click here.*
*At this time, we do not currently have available data due to this being our inaugural internship cohort. This section will be updated once data becomes available.