HealthSource of Ohio Postdoctoral Fellowships in Primary Care Behavioral Health
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HealthSource of Ohio
Milford, Ohio
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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.
Thank you for your interest in HealthSource of Ohio's Postdoctoral Fellowship in Primary Care Behavioral Health! We are so excited to build on what we've learned from our inaugural fellowship year for our second cohort of fellows.
HSO strives to follow the Primary Care Behavioral Health (PCBH) model. The overarching goal of our fellowship program is for fellows to gain immersion and expertise in the PCBH model through clinical practice as a behavioral health consultant (BHC). An excellent definition of the PCBH model, including a description of the BHC role, is provided by Reiter, Dobmeyer, and Hunter (2018):
"The PCBH model is a team-based primary care approach to managing behavioral health problems and biopsychosocially-influenced health conditions. The model's main goal is to enhance the primary care team's ability to manage and treat such problems/conditions, with resulting improvements in the primary care services for the entire clinic population. The model incorporates into the primary care team a behavioral health consultant (BHC), sometimes referred to as a behavioral health clinician, to extend and support the primary care provider (PCP) and team. The BHC works as a generalist and an educator who providers high volume services that are accessible, team-based, and a routine part of primary care. Specifically, the BHC assists in the care of patients of any age and with any health condition (Generalist); strives to intervene with all patients on the day they are referred (Accessible); shares clinic space and resources and assists the team in various ways (Team-based); engages with a large percentage of the clinic population (High volume); helps improve the team's biopsychosocial assessment and intervention skills and processes (Educator); and is a routine part of biopsychosocial care (Routine)."
HealthSource of Ohio offers family practice primary care, pediatric primary care, and women's health, among other services. Our fellows have the opportunity to work and learn in any of these settings.
In addition to providing direct patient care and consulting with primary care team members, fellows will have opportunity for other training experiences designed to round out their expertise and value in a medical setting. Fellows will receive in-depth training in Focused Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (FACT), among many other topics. They will engage in umbrella supervision of graduate clinical psychology students working as BHCs for their clinical practicum. They will also engage in a number of activities with medical students and family medicine residents that are training at HSO. These activities include:
- Being shadowed by second-year medical students, providing an initial exposure to PCBH for those students, and by family medicine residents to provide ongoing behavioral health exposure.
- Participating in "small group" with medical students. Small group is an activity in which the students discuss a fictional patient and integrate information about presenting concerns, medical history, social determinants of health, and other contextual factors to build the best treatment plan for that patient.
- Shadowing medical residents to provide feedback on communication and "bedside manner", educate on any mental health or behaviorally-influenced conditions or concerns that arise in visits, etc.
- Provide didactics to medical residents
- Lead medical residents in a Balint group. In short, a Balint group is a process-oriented group aimed at assisting medical providers in gaining greater insight into how their thoughts and emotions were "in play" during visits with their patients.
Please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions about the training opportunities available at HealthSource of Ohio, or with any other questions about the postdoctoral fellowship.
Additional Information
- Agency Type
- Other
- APPIC Membership
- No
- APA Accredited
- No
- Recognized Specialty
- Clinical Psychology
- Emphasis or focus area
- Primary Care
- Other Emphasis
- Family Medicine, Pediatrics, Women's Health, School Based Health, Primary Care Behavioral Health, Behavioral Scientist
- Research Time
- Less than 25%
- Training Director
- Michael Bruner, PsyD
- Contact Email
- mbruner@hsohio.org
- Contact Phone
- 513-575-1444
- Virtual Interviews
- Available
- Duration in Months
- 12
- Hours Per Week
- 45
- # of Licensed Supervisors
- 1
- Number of Positions
- 2
- Applications recieved last year
- 8
- Stipend
- $60,000
- Will follow APPIC Selection Standards
- No
- Estimated offer date
- Monday, February 12 2024
- Created Date
- Thursday, September 8 2022
- Unfilled Positions
- 0
- Fringe Benefits
- Fellows receive HSO employee benefits, which includes health, dental and vision coverage.
Fellows will also receive 20 days of paid time off throughout the year, in addition to 7 holidays. Additional time off for EPPP study & other needs will be considered on an as needed basis.
Fellows will attend the annual conference of the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA). Registration, time off, flights, hotel, and meals will be covered by HealthSource.
Fellows receive additional fringe benefits, including up to $500 in courtesy healthcare with HealthSource, membership to the Collaborative Family Healthcare Association (CFHA), retirement & profit-sharing plans, etc.
In the event that both HealthSource and a fellow are mutually interested in the fellow taking a permanent position at HealthSource post-fellowship, the fellow will be eligible for a retention bonus in exchange for a commitment to remain with HealthSource for a specific amount of time after the fellowship year is completed. Please feel free to ask more about and/or express interest in this possibility at any time.
- Research opportunities
- Over the course of the year, fellows will work on a scholarly project that addresses an identified program development or other quality improvement initiative. Fellows will work with the clinical training director and other identified team members to complete the project. Scholarly projects (e.g., publication, presentations, posters, etc.) resulting from this project are highly encouraged.
- Additional Comments
- We will post links for videos about the fellowship below as we create them! You will have to copy the URLs and paste them into a separate internet browser page.
Program Focus & Clinical Training: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkU6ppb3jnM&list=PLUFD-_FFLLtlVa5q30F1WaFcop4s3hhKu
Training Opportunities with Our Medical Students and Family Medicine Residents: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paMhofhG-Do
- Application Instructions
- Applications are reviewed throughout the year in the order received and may be sent at any time, although the deadline for a given fellowship year is January 1st of that year. We would love to meet applicants in person, but are happy to do interviews virtually when needed. Offers will be made no later than end of day on February 12th of the application year. Whether our positions are filled on this date or before it, we will notify other applicants immediately so that they can move on to other fellowship options without delay.
Current relevant COVID-19 information: HealthSource of Ohio follows CDC guidelines for wearing a mask. Currently, masks are not required to be worn when on HSO clinical sites. For in-person interviews, a prospective fellows is welcome to wear a mask at their discretion, and at their request Dr. Bruner and others involved in the interview will be happy to wear a mask.
Please send the following materials to Dr. Mike Bruner at mbruner@hsohio.org :
- A cover letter describing your interest in HealthSource of Ohio's fellowship program, and any existing experience with primary care behavioral health or other relevant integrated care experience
- An updated curriculum vita
- Three letters of reference
This record was last updated on Tuesday, August 1, 2023
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