Health Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship at Loyola University Medical Center
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Loyola University Medical Center
Maywood, Illinois
Starts on Monday, August 12, 2024
This program will NOT follow the APPIC Postdoctoral Selection Standards with Common Hold Date and is not committing to allow applicants to hold offers until the Common Hold Date. Applicants may need to respond to an offer from this program prior to completing interviews or hearing from other programs about their standing.
This listing is not an APPIC Member program and is not APA Accredited. Applicants should be aware that this program has not undergone formal external quality review process.
A one-year, full time postdoctoral fellowship in Health Psychology available August 2024 - August 2025. The Fellow will provide comprehensive services for adult medical patients with special emphasis on psychosocial oncology, hematology, solid organ transplantation, inpatient consult-liaison across a variety of medical service lines, bariatric surgery, weight management, and burn psychology. Training includes inpatient interventions and outpatient services, with instruction in a variety of techniques. The fellow participates in departmental teaching and research activities.
Loyola University Health System (LUHS) is an academic medical center and a 559-licensed-bed hospital that houses a Level 1 Trauma Center, a Burn Center, the Ronald McDonald Children's Hospital, the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center, the Center for Heart and Vascular Medicine as well as the LUC Stritch School of Medicine and LUC Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing. The clinical psychology training program has been providing training and education to doctoral students since 1997.
Telehealth options are available for outpatient psychotherapy visits when applicable although full-time on site coverage is required. COVID-19 vaccination is required for this hospital. Adequate PPE is available for patients with isolation precautions.
Additional Information
- Agency Type
- Private/General Hospital
- APPIC Membership
- No
- APA Accredited
- No
- Recognized Specialty
- Clinical Health Psychology
- Emphasis or focus area
- Health Psychology
- Other Emphasis
- Psychosocial Oncology, solid organ and stem cell transplant, Bariatric surgery and weight management, outpatient general and health-related psychotherapy
- Research Time
- Less than 25%
- Training Director
- Dr. Sarah Thilges
- Contact Email
- Sarah.Thilges@lumc.edu
- Contact Phone
- 708-327-2154
- Virtual Interviews
- Virtual Only
- Duration in Months
- 12
- Hours Per Week
- 40
- # of Licensed Supervisors
- 7
- Number of Positions
- 1
- Applications recieved last year
- 40
- Stipend
- $60,320
- Will follow APPIC Selection Standards
- No
- Estimated offer date
- Thursday, February 29 2024
- Unfilled Positions
- 0
- Fringe Benefits
- Health insurance, dental and eye insurance
- Research opportunities
- Behavioral medicine specialties including hematology, oncology, solid organ and stem cell transplant, and bariatric surgery
- Additional Comments
- Date of offer is not following UND this coming year. Offers may be made prior to listed date of 2/29/2024. Start date is negotiable although must occur in August 2024.
- Application Instructions
- To apply, send a completed application packet including all materials: vita, statement of professional goals, and 3 letters of recommendation. Electronic and early applications are preferred.
Sarah Thilges, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Director of Clinical Training in Psychology
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences
Loyola University Medical Center
2160 S. First Ave. (Building 108)
Maywood, Illinois 60153
Sarah.Thilges@lumc.edu
This record was last updated on Tuesday, April 2, 2024
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