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APPIC MATCH POLICIES:
2009-2010
Adopted July 23, 2009
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The following policies
will guide the 2010 APPIC Match and Clearinghouse.
Adherence to these policies
is a condition of membership in APPIC and of participation in the APPIC Match
and/or Clearinghouse.
For 2009-2010, the
Rank Order List Submission Deadline is February 3, 2010.
Results
of the Match will be released on APPIC Match Day, February 22, 2010.
- These policies apply to all participants in the APPIC Match, including
APPIC member internship programs, non-APPIC member internship programs, and student
applicants.
- All participants shall abide by
their agreements with APPIC for participation in the APPIC Match.
- Internship training directors must ensure that all people involved in
recruiting or selecting interns understand and adhere to these policies.
- Directors of APPIC Subscriber programs and doctoral programs with
students participating in the APPIC Match are requested to ensure that their students
understand and adhere to these policies.
- Violations of APPIC
Match Policies or Match Agreements by applicants or programs may result in sanctions
by APPIC (e.g., being barred from future Matches) or legal action by other Match
participants. In addition, violations by applicants may result in disciplinary
action by the applicants' graduate and/or internship programs.
- Internship
programs must offer all of their internship positions through the APPIC Match.
- Participants in the APPIC Match, including applicants and internship
programs, may not communicate, solicit, accept, or use any ranking-related information
prior to the release of the Match results.
- Internship
programs must include the following statement on their web sites and in their
brochures: "This internship site agrees to abide by the APPIC policy that
no person at this training facility will solicit, accept or use any ranking-related
information from any intern applicant."
- Prior to the
release of the APPIC Match results, internship programs may choose to inform applicants
as to whether or not the applicants remain under consideration for admission (e.g.,
whether or not the applicants will be ranked) but may not communicate any other
ranking information. The spirit of this item precludes any communication of rankings
prior to the release of the APPIC Match results, however "veiled" or indirect
such communication might be. However, sites and applicants are allowed to communicate
about matters that do not involve the sharing of ranking information.
- Internship programs and applicants may never solicit information regarding
applicants' and programs' rankings, even after the release of the Match results.
- Internship sites that offer more than one program in the APPIC
Match (i.e., sites with more than one program code number) are expected to ask
applicants to identify the site's programs to which they are applying. In addition,
these sites may, for the sole purpose of arranging interviews, ask applicants
to designate their preferences regarding the programs at the site for which they
wish to be interviewed. These sites may request interview preference information
only when it is essential for making interview arrangements, and such information
may not be used for any other purpose in the selection process. Furthermore, these
sites may not solicit any information about applicants' final rankings of programs.
Sites requesting interview preferences must state clearly in their written materials
that these preferences will be used for arranging interviews only and for no other
purpose.
- Any ranking information that is communicated between
applicants and internship programs, even though such communication is a violation
of these policies, is non-binding and may be changed at any time prior to the
Rank Order List submission deadline. The only binding rankings are the confidential
Rank Order Lists that are submitted to the APPIC Match.
- Internship
programs may choose to provide applicants with information about the size of the
applicant pool.
- Internship programs that conduct on-site
or telephone interviews must make a reasonable effort to notify every applicant
who submits a complete set of application materials as to his/her interview status.
Such notification must occur no later than the interview notification date that
appears in the program's APPIC Directory Online listing and/or other publicity
materials, and may be communicated via e-mail, telephone, regular mail (to be
received no later than the interview notification date), or other means.
Sites that conduct open houses to which all applicants are invited and conduct
no other interviews are exempt from this requirement (this process should be clearly
stated in the APPIC Directory Online and/or sites' publicity materials).
- Results of the APPIC Match constitute binding agreements
between applicants, internship programs, and APPIC that may not be reversed without
APPIC's consent.
- Appointments of applicants
to internship positions may be contingent upon the applicants satisfying certain
eligibility requirements. Such eligibility requirements must be clearly specified
in the internship programs' written materials and provided to applicants in advance
of the APPIC Match.
- Internship training directors are encouraged
to contact matched applicants by telephone as soon as possible after 11:00 am
Eastern Standard Time on APPIC Match Day.
- It is not necessary
for internship training directors to contact applicants with whom they have not
been matched.
- Internship training directors
must put in writing their appointment agreements with matched applicants in letters
postmarked no later than 72 hours following receipt of the APPIC Match results.
- Letters must be addressed to the applicants and must
include confirmation of conditions of the appointment, such as stipend, fringe
benefits, and the dates on which the internship begins and ends.
- Copies of these appointment letters must be sent simultaneously to applicants'
academic training directors.
- Internship programs
that receive their APPIC Match results and have one or more positions left unfilled
may then make other direct offers of admission (verbal or written) to applicants
who remain unmatched or to applicants who did not participate in the Match. Applicants
who receive their APPIC Match results and who remain unmatched may then receive
other direct offers of admission.
- Failure to
receive timely notification of the APPIC Match results, for any reason, does not
constitute a release from the Match.
- Internship programs
may not take any actions to fill open positions prior to 11:00 am Eastern Standard
Time on APPIC Match Day. Applicants who remain unmatched, along with other individuals
acting on their behalf (e.g., doctoral program faculty), may not contact internship
programs about unfilled positions prior to 11:00 am Eastern Standard Time on APPIC
Match Day.
- Prior to making offers to fill open positions,
internship training directors must verify with applicants, to the best of their
abilities, that the applicants have not previously been matched to other internship
programs nor accepted other offers.
- Prior to making offers to fill open positions, internship training directors must ensure that doctoral programs have verified their applicants' eligibility and readiness for internship. Such verification can occur via a review of the appropriate application materials and/or via direct communication with the doctoral programs.
- Applicants may not accept
an offer if they have been matched or have already accepted an offer from another
internship program.
- An offer (verbal or written) that has
been tendered by an internship program and accepted by an applicant constitutes
a binding agreement between the program, the applicant, and APPIC that may not
be reversed without APPIC's consent.
- The internship training
director must put in writing the appointment agreement with the applicant in a
letter postmarked no later than 72 hours following acceptance of the offer by
the applicant, as described in paragraphs 5a and 5b above.
- Individuals
who perceive violations of these policies are urged to request compliance with
APPIC policies from the appropriate party (parties).
- Unresolved compliance problems should be resolved informally, whenever possible,
through consultation among applicants, internship training directors, academic
training directors, and/or APPIC, or by other informal means. APPIC sponsors an
Informal Problem Consultation
process, described on the APPIC web site, that is recommended for use in addressing
these issues.
- Internship training directors who become aware
of violations of these policies by other internship training directors should
(a) urge the affected applicants and academic training directors to follow the
informal resolution procedures described above, (b) directly contact the other
internship training directors, and/or (c) use the APPIC
Informal Problem Consultation process.
- Perceived violations
of APPIC Policies and/or the Match Agreement that are not resolved through the
APPIC Informal Problem Consultation process may be reported as a formal complaint
to the APPIC Standards and Review Committee (ASARC).
- If
a formal complaint is filed with APPIC regarding an alleged violation of these
policies, the APPIC Standards
and Review Committee (ASARC) will evaluate the allegations and recommend an
appropriate course of action to the APPIC Board of Directors. The APPIC Board
of Directors is the body that ultimately determines the course of action. ASARC
policies are described on the APPIC web site. Formal complaints regarding violations of APPIC policies should
be filed by submitting an ASARC Complaint Form (available from the APPIC web site) to:
Chair, APPIC
Standards and Review Committee
10 G Street, N.E.
Suite 440
Washington,
DC 20002
(202) 589-0600
Copyright
© 2009 Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC).
NOTE:
APPIC members, and non-APPIC members who participate in the Match, may reprint
the APPIC Match Policies in their program materials and brochures by stating "Reprinted
with permission".
27 July 2009
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