Nationwide Children's Hospital: Pediatric Neuropsychology
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Nationwide Children's Hospital
Columbus, Ohio
This training experience is not an APPIC Member program and is not APA Accredited. Applicants should be aware that this training experience has not undergone a formal external quality review process.
Elements of quality clinically focused postdoctoral training
This training experience is a planned and programmed sequence of training that aims to ensure preparation for advanced practice rather than one that is focused on providing supervised hours for licensure.
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This training experience ensures that training takes precedence over service delivery regarding the nature, content, volume, and quality of the postdoc’s activities.
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This training experience ensures that postdocs receive at least two hours of individual supervision per week for the duration oof the experience.
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This training experience is administered by a doctoral-level licensed psychologist who directs and organizes the training experience and its resources, is responsible for the selection of postdocs, and monitors and evaluates the goals and activities of the experience.
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This training experience has two or more doctoral-level licensed psychologists who have sufficient time to provide quality supervision and training.
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This training experience includes regularly scheduled structured educational activities that help postdocs its defined goals. These activities may include didactics, seminars, case conferences, and/or research activities.
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This training experience has written Due Process and Grievance procedures.
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This training experience has the stable and necessary financial (e.g., stipend) and physical resources (e.g., computers, physical space) needed for effective training.
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The postdoctoral training program in pediatric neuropsychology at Nationwide Children’s hospital is part of the Department of Pediatric Psychology, Nationwide Children's Hospital and the Division of Psychology, Department of Pediatrics, The Ohio State University College of Medicine.
The training program is a member of the Association for Postdoctoral Programs in Clinical Neuropsychology (APPCN) and is designed to meet the criteria set forth by the Houston Conference on Specialty Education and Training in Clinical Neuropsychology.
It is intended to provide clinical training to produce an advanced level of competence in the specialty of clinical neuropsychology and is specifically geared toward producing independent practitioner level competence, which includes both clinical and research skills.
The goal is to prepare the fellow for a career as a scientist-practitioner in pediatric neuropsychology, preferably through hospital-based practice in a medical school setting, and to prepare graduates for board certification through the American Board of Professional Psychology/American Board of Clinical Neuropsychology (ABPP/ABCN).
Additional Information
- Agency Type
- Childrens Hospital
- APPIC Membership
- No
- APA Accredited
- No
- Recognized Specialty
- Clinical Neuropsychology
- Emphasis or focus area
- Neuropsychology
- Other Emphasis
- Pediatric Neuropsychology
- Research Time
- Less than 25%
- Training Director
- Kelly McNally, Ph.D., ABPP
- Contact Email
- Kelly.McNally@nationwidechildrens.org
- Contact Phone
- (614) 722-4700
- Duration in Months
- 24
- Hours Per Week
- 40
- # of Licensed Supervisors
- 8
- Number of Positions
- 1
- Applications recieved last year
- 34
- Stipend
- $57582
- Will follow APPIC Selection Standards
- Unfilled Positions
- 0
- Fringe Benefits
- Health, dental, and vision insurance. Professional liability coverage is provided by the hospital. Residents receive 15 days of paid time off, as well as 6 regular holidays. Five additional days are allocated for attendance at professional conferences and job interviews.
- Research opportunities
- The fellow is expected to have taken formal courses in research methods and statistics and to have completed an empirical dissertation during their graduate training. One of the neuropsychology faculty will serve as each fellow's research mentor and fellows are encouraged to collaborate with other disciplines in the hospital or research institute. The collaboration usually involves ongoing research programs, but can also involve initiation of an independent research project. In either case, the fellow is encouraged to participate in all steps of the research process. Fellows can choose to learn quality improvement science and conduct a quality improvement project to fulfill the research requirement.
Fellows intending to pursue academic careers will be encouraged to prepare research papers for publication. The Department of Psychology will provide some financial support for attendance at professional meetings.
- Application Instructions
- Fellowship start date is flexible depending on internship completion date (beginning of July or beginning of September).
Our program requires applications through the APPA CAS.
Applications should include:
Letter of interest
Curriculum vitae
Graduate transcript
Copies of two test reports
Three letters of recommendation
For questions, contact:
Kelly McNally, Ph.D., ABPP/CN
Department of Psychology
Nationwide Children's Hospital
700 Children's Drive
Columbus, OH 43205
Kelly.McNally@NationwideChildrens.org
Match Procedures
APPCN programs participate in a match program conducted by National Matching Services, Inc., which also conducts the match program for predoctoral internships. The procedures for the APPCN match are very similar to those used for internship. All applicants to APPCN programs should obtain an Applicant Agreement Package from National Matching Services, which can be obtained from the APPCN Resident Matching Program website at http://www.natmatch.com/appcnmat/. Applicants should return Agreement forms to National Matching Services, Inc, register for the match, and pay the match fee.
Additional Information
Further information about the Association of Postdoctoral Programs in Clinical Neuropsychology (APPCN) is available at its website: http://www.appcn.org/.
This record was last updated on Monday, September 12, 2022
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