Health Psychology Postdoctoral Fellowship at Loyola University Medical Center
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Loyola University Medical Center
Maywood, Illinois
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.
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
A one-year, full time postdoctoral fellowship in Health Psychology available August 2025 - August 2026. 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
- Duration in Months
- 12
- Hours Per Week
- 40
- # of Licensed Supervisors
- 7
- Number of Positions
- 1
- Applications recieved last year
- 40
- Accepts Int'l Students
- Stipend
- $60,320
- Will follow APPIC Selection Standards
- 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 2/29/2025. Start date is negotiable although must occur in August 2025.
- Application Instructions
- EARLY APPLICATIONS WELCOMED. To apply, send a completed application packet including all materials: vita, statement of professional goals, and 3 letters of recommendation to Sarah.Thilges@lumc.edu.
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 Thursday, September 19, 2024
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