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MUSC Fellowship in Behavioral Medicine / Clinical Health Psychology

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Medical University of South Carolina
Charleston, South Carolina

Applications due Friday, December 6, 2024

This training experience will NOT follow the APPIC Selection Standards with Common Hold Date (CHD) and may not allow applicants to hold offers until the CHD. Applicants may need to respond to an offer for this position prior to completing interviews or knowing their standing with other positions.

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

As a fellow you will work with patients with a range of chronic health conditions and providers from diverse medical specialties. Our campus is a busy and exciting place to work with six colleges and trainees from nearly all medical disciplines, and award-winning specialty medical/hospital services. We value interprofessional work and training and encourage close collaboration with our medical team colleagues. We value the fellows who have chosen to train with us, and we treat our fellows as junior colleagues. Fellows who excel in our program are highly motivated, creative, and passionate about their work. With scaffolding as appropriate throughout the fellowship, we support the continued growth of skilled generalist health psychologists who are ready for independent licensure and practice at the completion of the fellowship. The fellowship is 1-year with the option for a 2nd year pending agreement between the fellow and the fellowship directors. The decision to stay on for a 2nd year will be determined no later than January. 

The fellow will provide outpatient psychotherapy, assessment, and consultation services to patients with a wide variety of chronic medical conditions, with opportunities for inpatient consultation and evaluation in our hospital for urgent transplants and integrated care within certain clinics. The fellowship year is divided into two, six-month rotations, with the opportunity to adjust/add additional experiences at the six-month point. The fellow may receive training and supervised clinical experience with the following patient populations: 

Transplant Surgery: Heart, liver, kidney, lung, & living donor (kidney and liver), including opportunities for inpatient transplant evaluations 

Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery: Pre- and post-surgical evaluation and management 

Cancer and Blood and Marrow Transplant (BMT): New diagnosis, active treatment, survivorship, caregivers, BMT evaluations, inpatient oncology opportunities 

Chronic Pain and Epidural Neurostimulator Evaluations: Chronic idiopathic pain, nociceptive pain, neuropathic pain, CRPS/RSD, Chronic pancreatitis, fibromyalgia, etc. 

Pulmonary Diseases: CF, COPD, NTM, sarcoidosis, etc.; including specialty clinics and Pulmonary Rehabilitation 

Gastroenterological diseases and conditions: Crohn’s disease, Ulcerative colitis, and Irritable bowel syndrome 

Pediatric and AYA Psychology: Solid organ transplant, adolescent bariatric surgery, congenital heart conditions, cystic fibrosis, sickle cell, and other assorted consultations 

Other Chronic Medical Conditions and Functional Disorders: cardiac disease (MI/CAD, CABG, arrhythmias, adolescent and adult congenital, devices), other specialty and internal medicine servicestations

Additional Information

Agency Type
Medical School/Health Science Center
APPIC Membership
No
APA Accredited
No
Recognized Specialty
Clinical Health Psychology
Emphasis or focus area
Health Psychology
Research Time
Less than 25%
Training Director
Stacey Maurer, PhD
Contact Email
maurers@musc.edu
Contact Phone
843-792-0686, x2
Virtual Interviews
Strongly Preferred
Duration in Months
12
Hours Per Week
45
# of Licensed Supervisors
8
Number of Positions
3
Applications recieved last year
17
Stipend
$61008
Will follow APPIC Selection Standards
No
Estimated offer date
Friday, January 31 2025
Created Date
Monday, May 13 2024
Unfilled Positions
0
Fringe Benefits
The salary for the 2024-25 postdoctoral fellowship year will be $61,008 (or what is consistent with NIH stipend). Fellows are eligible for health, dental, vision, life insurance, short- and long-term disability, and retirement benefits. Benefits include 15 days (120 hours) of annual leave and 15 days (120 hours) of sick leave (3 weeks each). In addition, fellows will receive the 13 University holidays (which includes 1 floating holiday). Professional leave is discussed on a case-by-case basis with the faculty/supervisors. Fellows should plan to start fellowship on the first day of a month, or day prior, due to benefits/health insurance schedule. In addition, we offer at least $1500 professional development funds (reimbursable) in support of SC Psychology Board application fees and/or EPPP fees for fellows for the 2024-25 training year. Other benefits are available including an excellent library system, computer services, discounts on MUSC perks, and reduced cost membership to the state-of-the-art MUSC Wellness Center.
Research opportunities
We expect to have the option for a grant mechanism through our division, where fellows can apply for funding towards a specific research project agreed upon with a faculty mentor, to work on during protected research time, if awarded. Teaching opportunities are also available for those with specific training goals in this domain. These opportunities may be discussed further in interviews.
Application Instructions
The deadline for applications for the 2025-26 training year is Friday December 6, 2024, and applications will be accepted on a rolling basis prior to this date. Applications will be submitted directly via email to Dr. Stacey Maurer (maurers@musc.edu) and Dr. Lily Christon (christon@musc.edu). Please submit a (1) letter of interest and (2) current curriculum vitae. Please address your letter of interest to the fellowship director: Stacey Maurer, PhD. In your letter of interest, discuss: your career goals and whether you are interested in pursuing any specific areas of focus or minor rotations. In your letter, please also include the names and contact emails of two references we may reach out to: one of your current internship supervisors and one reference from your graduate program. Reference letters are NOT required. Interviews: All interviews will be conducted virtually, except by specific request.

This record was last updated on Tuesday, September 3, 2024

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