CLINICAL HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY FELLOWSHIP-SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS
The Department of Behavioral Medicine at Brooke Army Medical Center (BAMC), Ft. Sam Houston, Texas (San Antonio) announces an opening for an APA accredited 2-year Clinical Health Psychology fellowship starting September/October 2017.
This is a civilian position within a military medical center. The program seeks to develop professionals with the advanced training necessary to effectively assess, accurately diagnose, and successfully treat patients for whom medical illness is a primary concern and who may have a wide range of psychological difficulties. The program prepares fellows to create and direct clinical programs, develop and carry out specific treatment protocols, consult and collaborate in patient care with other providers, and educate health care professionals.
The Clinical Health Psychology Fellowship strives to balance clinical practice with didactic instruction in a 2-year program that develops advanced competencies in health psychology. The program works to stay current with leading research and cutting-edge treatment in the provision of health psychology services to manage various medical conditions, both acute and chronic.
The first year of the Fellowship consists of two rotations starting with general health psychology experiences. The first rotation includes developing and implementing various psycho-educational groups within various medical clinics. There will also be opportunities for individual work as well as pre-operative assessments.
The Fellow will continue with group work during the second rotation, but will pursue more focused activities within one or more of the specialty clinics depending upon the student's interests. The specialty clinic rotation involves shadowing experiences, individual and group therapies, learning from and participating with interdisciplinary teams, and participating in clinic specific didactics provided for medical trainees and staff. Fellows will provide 12-15 direct patient hours per week. Second year fellows create individually tailored experiences within one or more specialty clinics. Every effort is made to match fellows with their population of interest. Fellows spend 3-4 days per week in this specialty clinic as a member of the treatment team. Fellows will provide 16-20 hours direct patient care per week during this year.
One half-day per week in each fellowship year is devoted to Clinical Health Psychology didactics. Fellows are encouraged to attend relevant local, regional and national workshops. If the fellow has not had hypnosis and/or biofeedback training, arrangements may be made to provide this training. The Army is committed to training psychologists in evidence based therapies. This training is provided and encouraged for all fellows. BAMC psychology training programs, the local Air Force psychology training program and the VA bring in distinguished visiting professors for presentations. The following is a partial list of some of the distinguished visiting professionals who have offered training in the recent past:
. Suicidal Patients - Dr. David Rudd
. PAI - Dr. Leslie Morey
. Hypnosis Training - Dr. Gary Elkins . CBT/Supervision - Dr. Van
Den Broek . ACT Training - Dr. Kirk Strosahl
. Multicultural Training - Dr. Jessica Henderson Daniel
. Prolonged Exposure - Drs. Edna Foa & David Riggs . Risk Management
-- Dr. Jeffrey Youngren . Immune System and Resilience - Dr. Charles
Raison . Health Behavior Change - Dr. James O. Prochaska
Approximately one half day per week in each fellowship year is devoted to the fellow receiving and giving supervision to interns and residents. Another half day per week is provided to study for the licensing exam or work on the fellowship project.
The BAMC Clinical Health fellowship is committed to going beyond clinical and didactic preparation in the development of a professional psychologist.
Training experiences develop leadership skills in supervision, education, production and application of science to the practice of psychology, treatment and program evaluation, legal and ethical practice in psychology and an ongoing awareness of the impact of diversity issues of on individuals, groups and institutions. Training in cultural competency is emphasized over the two years. BAMC serves a diverse clinical population across different cultural groups. As such, the delivery of culturally-competent healthcare is a high priority. The fellowship program emphasizes the importance of diversity and ethics through seminars highlighting issues of cultural diversity and ethical competence. National observances of different populations are celebrated throughout the facility. Cultural issues are also discussed regularly in supervision.
The Fellowship is APA-accredited. For information concerning the accreditation status of this program, please contact the Commission on Accreditation of the American Psychological Association: Telephone 202-336-5979, at the
American Psychological Association,
750 First Street, N. E.,
Washington, DC. 20002-4242;
email APAAccred@apa.org.
www.apa.org/ed/accreditation
Applicants will need to have finished all of the requirements for graduation from an APA accredited doctoral program in psychology to include successful completion of an APA-accredited internship and have that reflected on their transcript before they begin the fellowship. First year fellows enter as Government Service (G.S.) grade 11, with locality adjustment pay added. They may be advanced to a G.S. grade 12 in the second year of the fellowship if they are licensed and in good standing in the program. To determine the salary go to http://apps.opm.gov/SpecialRates/2016/Table031801012016.aspx.
G.S. positions include generous annual and sick leave, federal holidays, healthcare benefit plans and enrollment in the G.S. pension and employee/employer-funded retirement savings plan. For more information about the fellowship, please go to the website below, which details all BAMC fellowships and application procedures.
https://bamc.amedd.army.mil/staff/education/allied-health/behavioral-m
edicin e/clinical-health-psychology-fellowship-program.asp
Applications will be accepted until the position is filled.
Applicants who have a strong training background and interest in health psychology will be offered an interview by two or more of the Clinical Health Psychology faculty. On-site interviews are not required, but welcomed if applicants desire. Before scheduling the interview, we ask that the applicant's doctoral program director send a letter to the fellowship director with the date scheduled for the applicant's dissertation defense (if not already complete) and the date the degree will be conferred. This is important to ensure that the degree is conferred prior to starting the fellowship in September.
The position will be offered to the candidate who demonstrates the best fit with the program. For questions or further information, please contact the Fellowship Director, Dr. Alice Inman at 210-916-6725 or alice.w.inman2.civ@mail.mil. Interested applicants should send an application packet to include a letter of interest, current vita, three sealed letters of reference, and official undergraduate and graduate academic transcripts to:
Dr. Alice Inman
San Antonio Military Medical Center
Clinical Health Psychology Services
Hematology/Oncology Clinic
3551 Roger Brook Drive
Ft. Sam Houston, TX 78234
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