Application Procedure
Selection Process
Our internship receives over two hundred inquiries per year for our six positions. All submitted credentials are carefully reviewed by Consortium Training Committee members. The applicants are rated on the strength of their academic performance, the tone of their letters of recommendation, and the perceived degree of fit between their aspirations and the specific offerings of our generalist program. Approximately fifty candidates are invited for interviews in early January. This final group is ranked, with the results of the ranking being submitted for the Match in February.
Application Procedure
The Albany Psychology Internship Consortium uses the APPIC Application for Psychology Internships (AAPI). A copy of the AAPI as a word processor file may be obtained from the APPIC Web site: http://www.appic.org
Please see Forms and Documents Downloads on the APPIC Web site.
In addition to the AAPI, we require at least three letters of recommendation. If already prepared, we welcome an up-to-date VITA as well. All candidates are to be certified by their Directors of Training that they are academically ready to start internship. Only copies of graduate transcripts are required.
We have evolved a preference for receiving all materials in one packet, but we can accommodate letters and transcripts being sent separately.
Our internship abides by APPIC policy on nondiscrimination in that we have practices which are nondiscriminatory in regard to race/ethnic background, gender, age, sexual orientation, lifestyle, and disabilities.
Applications and supporting documents should be sent to:
John R. Thibodeau, Ph.D., ABPP
Director
Albany Psychology Internship Consortium
Inpatient Psychiatry Service
Albany Medical Center Hospital
Mail Code 20
43 New Scotland Avenue
Albany, New York 12208-3479
