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The APPIC Match
The APPIC Internship Matching Program places applicants into
psychology internship positions at training sites in the United
States and Canada.
The APPIC Match was first implemented in 1999. Similar Matching
Programs are in use in many other professions, including medicine,
dentistry, pharmacy, and law. The Match provides an orderly process
to help applicants obtain positions in predoctoral internships
of their choice, and to help internship programs obtain applicants
of their choice. For both applicants and programs, it alleviates
many of the factors that generate inequities, unfair pressures,
and premature decisions in the making of offers by programs and
the acceptance or rejection of offers by applicants. It also allows
programs and applicants to evaluate each other fully before determining
preferences.
The Matching Program is sponsored and supervised by APPIC and
is administered by National Matching Services Inc. (NMS). NMS
was established in 1985 and specializes in the development and
operation of Matching Programs for the competitive recruitment
of positions. The senior professional staff of NMS have extensive
experience in the development, implementation, and operation of
Matching Programs for professional recruitment. They have developed
proprietary software that enables the automation of all aspects
of the Matching Programs that they administer. NMS was chosen
as the company to administer the APPIC Match because of its expertise
in the specialized field of Matching Programs, and because of
its excellent reputation across disciplines.
28 February 2002
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