Battle Creek VAMC Clinical Neuropsychology Postdoctoral Residency Program
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VA Medical Center, Battle Creek
Battle Creek, Michigan
Starts on Monday, August 11, 2025
Applications due Sunday, December 15, 2024
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.
Yes
This training experience ensures that training takes precedence over service delivery regarding the nature, content, volume, and quality of the postdoc’s activities.
Yes
This training experience ensures that postdocs receive at least two hours of individual supervision per week for the duration oof the experience.
Yes
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.
Yes
This training experience has two or more doctoral-level licensed psychologists who have sufficient time to provide quality supervision and training.
Yes
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.
Yes
This training experience has written Due Process and Grievance procedures.
Yes
This training experience has the stable and necessary financial (e.g., stipend) and physical resources (e.g., computers, physical space) needed for effective training.
Yes
The Neuropsychology Residency Program is a 2-year fully APA accredited specialty residency and APCCN member program. We recruit one position annually, maintaining a cohort of 1 first year resident and 1 second year resident. Please carefully read through eligibility requirements found at https://www.va.gov/oaa/hpt-eligibility.asp.
Covid-19 vaccination remains a requirement and exemptions are not guaranteed. While the state of Michigan does allow recreational and medical marijuana use, the use of either or any other illicit substances would prohibit employment in a federal facility.
We participate in the APPCN Neuropsychology Match, interviewing on various dates in January 2025.Interviews include meeting with neuropsychology supervisors as well as an opportunity to join a Q&A session with current residents.
Neuropsychology trainees participate in clinical work under ABPP board certified Clinical Neuropsychologists and attend neuropsychology specific clinical didactics, board certification preparation, and observation of brain cuttings for forensic and clinical neurology autopsy cases at Western Michigan School of Medicine. Residents join ongoing research projects. (2023-2026 project: Use of the Montreal Cognitive Assessment 8.3 in a Veteran Population: relationship to comprehensive neuropsychological measures). Supervision of an intern is part of second year training. We meet licensure requirements for the state of Michigan provided the resident has one full year of supervision after the Michigan limited license conferral date. Residents are expected to sit for the EPPP early in their second year.
Additional Information
- Agency Type
- VA Medical Center
- APPIC Membership
- No
- APA Accredited
- Yes
- Recognized Specialty
- Clinical Neuropsychology
- Emphasis or focus area
- Neuropsychology
- Research Time
- Less than 25%
- Training Director
- Jessica Kinkela, PhD, ABPP-CN
- Contact Email
- jessica.kinkela@va.gov
- Contact Phone
- 269-966-5600x31155
- Virtual Interviews
- Virtual Only
- Duration in Months
- 24
- Hours Per Week
- 40
- # of Licensed Supervisors
- 4
- Number of Positions
- 1
- Applications recieved last year
- 11
- Stipend
- $52005
- Will follow APPIC Selection Standards
- Exempt Neuro specialty APPCN Match
- Estimated offer date
- Wednesday, February 21 2024
- Unfilled Positions
- 0
- Fringe Benefits
- The residency position is a 2 year, full-time appointment. Comprehensive benefits are available to VA trainees, including medical insurance, paid sick and vacation leave, 11 federal holidays, as well as 5 days of guaranteed authorized leave for professional activities during the training year. After 90 days, residents may purchase dental/vision insurance. After 90 days, residents may be eligible for day care subsidy.
- Research opportunities
- Required to complete IRB/RD approved research project OR Program Evaluation project OR Outcome Evaluation project.
- Application Instructions
- The following application materials must be included (uploaded) in the APPA CAS:
1. Cover letter detailing your career aspirations and how this training program is suited to help in achieving them.
2. Vita
3. Three letters of recommendation, ideally one should be from an internship supervisor.
4. A letter from your dissertation chair regarding dissertation status and anticipated DEGREE CONFERRAL date (not defense date). If your dissertation chair is one of your letters of recommendation, this information can be included in that letter. The APPCN statement of satisfactory progress is also acceptable.
5. All graduate transcripts associated with training for your degree (masters and doctoral). If you cannot upload previous program transcripts via the portal, unofficial transcripts may be attached to the file containing your cover letter. Current program transcripts should be official.
6. One de-identified adult neuropsychological report
Except under very unusual circumstances, all application materials must be submitted through the APPA CAS.
This record was last updated on Tuesday, October 15, 2024
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