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The faculty of the Department of Psychiatry represents a range of theoretical orientations and research interests from biological to behavioral. The program belongs to the Association for Internship Training in Clinical Neuropsychology. The predoctoral psychology internship has four positions. Three of the positions have an emphasis on clinical neuropsychology. The fourth position is a clinical child track. The training experience in neuropsychology is particularly strong. The internship has four neuropsychologists who supervise interns and a behavioral neurologist as faculty members. The program belongs to the Association for Internship Training in Clinical Neuropsychology. The internship is structured around a rotational system. The interns interested in neuropsychology spend four months on each of three rotations. This year the rotations include adult neuropsychology, psychopathology and neuropsychology of adults and adolescents, and medical psychology. Some flexibility may be shown in future years depending on the interest of the intern. In addition to activities of the primary rotation, the interns carry outpatient psychotherapy cases all year. Inpatient experience includes in-hospital consultations on medical patients. Outpatient services consist of a general clinic and a variety of specialized programs. Among the specialized outpatient services are the following: epilepsy program, pervasive developmental disorders clinic, memory disorders clinic, sleep disorders clinic, and specialized testing assignments including organ transplant candidacy evaluation. The interns will gain experience in most of these areas during the year. The didactic training offered to interns consists of seminars and individual supervision. Supervisors include full-time faculty and volunteer exemplary practitioners from the community. Multiple supervisors are used so that each activity undertaken by an intern is supervised by an appropriate faculty member. Interns participate in weekly seminars. Presentations are made by psychologists, psychiatrists, and other professionals. In addition, the Department of Psychiatry holds Grand Rounds and an Outpatient Case Conference weekly. Interns may also choose to be involved in relevant aspects of the psychiatry residency teaching. Interns may attend formal seminars and rounds in Neurology, Surgery, and other departments. Interns are evaluated formally at a meeting of supervisors and informally through frequent verbal feedback from supervisors. Interns and supervisors are expected to maintain close, open communication with each other and with the Director of Psychology Training. Twice during the year a written evaluation of the intern's progress toward meeting the training objectives will be shared with the intern and the intern's graduate program Training Director. If the quality of an intern's performance is felt to be problematic, the intern will meet with the Director of Psychology Training to discuss identified deficiencies and to plan remediation. Trainees are expected to abide by the ethical standards of the American Psychological Association and the Arizona statutes pertaining to professional conduct.
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