Program Overview

The internship experience at Montefiore Medical Center is rich, stimulating, and intensive. The internship year begins on July 1st and ends on June 30th. Internship experiences include direct clinical work with psychiatric patients, intensive supervision, and didactic seminars.

• We place great emphasis on supervision, representing at least 5 hours per week, using a variety of different theoretical orientations including psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavioral, family systems, interpersonal stages-of-change, and life-span developmental approaches.
• Curriculum seminars run throughout the year, comprising at least 4 hours of the interns' time per week. This seminar series is organized around a number of modules and workshops where members of the faculty and other invitees present on topics central to internship training including: general psychiatry, psychopathology, cognitive behavior therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, psychoanalytic psychotherapy, group therapy, substance abuse, geriatrics, psychological assessment, diversity and cultural issues, neuropsychology, learning disabilities, behavioral medicine, and professional issues. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE 2009-10 CURRICULUM.
• Each clinical service to which an intern is assigned has its own weekly case conferences. These case conferences provide an opportunity to receive consultation with experts and specialists on current clinical cases.
• Interns also attend the weekly Department of Psychiatry Grand Rounds series with distinguished invited speakers from various areas within psychiatry and psychology. CLICK HERE TO VIEW THE 2009-10 GRAND ROUNDS SCHEDULE.

Specializations

Our internship program offers two different specializations: adult and child/adolescent. During the application process, applicants must choose and apply to one specialization. We place 4 interns in the adult specialization and 2 interns in the child/adolescent specialization. In a typical year, we receive approximately 230 applications for the adult positions and 120 applications for the child/adolescent positions.

Each of the specializations offers different training and clinical rotations. Below are the "templates" for the typical rotations in each specialization. Although these templates outline the major clinical rotations for interns in each track, interns are able to individualize their experiences by adding elective rotations (described in the "Clinical Rotations" section).

Adult Specialization Template

• Major Rotations 
• 6-month rotation in the Adult Outpatient Psychiatry Department
• 4-month rotation on the Adult Psychiatric Inpatient Unit
• 1-month rotation in the Psychiatric Emergency Room
• 1-month rotation in the Addiction Psychiatric Service
• Electives that can be added for one day per week during the 6-month outpatient rotation include: Substance Abuse Treatment Program, Behavioral Sleep Medicine Program, Geriatric Psychiatry Program, Psychiatry AUDS Connected Ambulatory Program, Child Outpatient Psychiatric Department, Transplant Psychosocial Service, Supporting Healthy Marriages Program, among others
• Some electives can be selected as a one-month full-time rotation (reducing or eliminating a month from other rotations)

Child/Adolescent Specialization Template

• Major Rotation: 
• 12-month rotation in the Child Outpatient Psychiatry Department(includes cases in the Adolescent Depression and Suicide Program and the Child and Adolescent Assessment Service)
• Elective options that can be added during the 12-month outpatient rotation include: School-based Mental Health Program, Children's Hospital Behavioral Consultation Team, Child Advocacy Center Mental Health Team, Psychiatric Emergency Room, Adult Psychiatric Inpatient Unit, Supporting Healthy Marriages Program, Adult Outpatient Psychiatry Department, among others

For more information about our Psychology Internship Program,
call (718) 920-4797.