Vanderbilt University Medical Center: Psychotic Disorders Program
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center - Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences
Nashville, Tennessee
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 Postdoctoral Fellowship in Psychotic Disorders provides flexible, experiential training in treatment, assessment, and research of individuals with a psychotic illness, especially the early stage of psychosis. The fellowship adheres to the scientist-practitioner training model and is designed to prepare individuals for careers as clinical psychologists in academic and/or research settings, based on their individual interests and career goals. The fellowship is well-suited for individuals that: 1) Have pre-doctoral clinical training in assessment and/or intervention of individuals with a psychotic illness; 2) Have a strong record of research experience; and 3) Are scientist-practitioners intending to pursue a clinical and/or academic research career in psychiatry.
Additional Information
- Agency Type
- Medical School/Health Science Center
- APPIC Membership
- Yes
- APA Accredited
- No
- Recognized Specialty
- Clinical Psychology
- Emphasis or focus area
- Serious Mental Illness
- Other Emphasis
- Intervention
- Research Time
- 26-50%
- Training Director
- Neil Woodward, Ph.D.
- Contact Email
- neil.d.woodward@vumc.org
- Contact Phone
- 615-322-8361
- Duration in Months
- 12
- Hours Per Week
- 40
- # of Licensed Supervisors
- 4
- Number of Positions
- 1
- Applications recieved last year
- 2
- Stipend
- $54,840
- Will follow APPIC Selection Standards
- Unfilled Positions
- 0
- Fringe Benefits
- Health, vision, dental, and disability insurance.
- Research opportunities
- Engagement in clinical research is a core component of the fellowship. Fellows will have the opportunity to become involved in several on-going, federally funded studies, as well as participate in the design and implementation of new studies. Current areas of investigation include: functional MRI investigations of working memory, attention, and hippocampal functioning; cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of brain structure and brain structure-phenotype correlations; neuroimaging investigations of brain dysconnectivity using resting-state fMRI, task-based fMRI, and diffusion tensor imaging; nosology of psychotic disorders and comorbidity in psychosis; and intervention studies investigating the impact of CBTp on persecutory delusions and associated cognitive processes.
- Application Instructions
- To apply for the position, please submit an application, including a CV, letter of interest, and letters of recommendation through APPIC’s Centralized Postdoctoral Application System. Note, start date is flexible.
This record was last updated on Friday, July 29, 2022
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