The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center offers two postdoctoral fellowships in advanced general clinical psychology. These positions are for the 12-month academic year with a starting date of the first Monday in July. The position has a stipend of $400 a month. Students receive a certificate of completion upon fulfilling the program requirements. The fellowship provides 1,600 hours of supervised clinical experience. The program's goals are to:
- Develop superior professional psychologists, competent in the basic clinical skills of diagnostic evaluation and psychotherapy
- Provide a grounded theoretical understanding of human behavior to meet the changing needs of our society
- Enhance ability to apply research and theory to clinical work
The fellowships require that 50% of a student's time be spent in direct client services. That time should include 25% in direct patient/client contact (i.e., in individual, family and group settings involving assessment and consultation). It also requires at least:
- Two hours of direct individual clinical supervision weekly
- Participation in group supervision
- Assignment to a multidisciplinary treatment team
- Cognitive behavioral therapy training
- Cultural diversity
- Human sexuality
- Child development
- Art therapy
- Dream analysis
- Psychopharmacology
- Psychological testing (see scheduled seminars and conferences)
- Partial hospitalization and inpatient psychiatric units
- The Early Childhood
- School-based services
- Neuropsychological rehabilitation services
- Co-therapy, group therapy and videotaped supervision
We conduct fellow evaluations at mid-year and year-end. We evaluate fellows for their competency in initial clinical evaluations and individual treatment. We base them on written evaluations from supervisors and a review by the fellowship director. Fellows not meeting competency requirements are given three months to do so. Should we have to consider termination, we refer the fellow to the Fellowship Steering Committee, offering full access to grievance procedures. The Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Human Resources Policies and Procedures manual outlines the procedure for "Conflict Resolution: Non-Supervisory Employees." Fellows receive copies of the procedure at the start of the internship year.
Fellows have access to an extensive medical library, an assessment laboratory with computerized test scoring, audio-visual equipment, individual offices, group/conference rooms and administrative support.
We require qualified candidates to have completed all doctoral degree requirements from a regionally accredited institution of higher education. That includes an internship meeting Association of Psychology Postdoctoral & Internship Centers (APPIC) standards by the first day of the fellowship. Fellowship applicants who have not completed either an American Psychological Association (APA) accredited or APPIC member internship program should submit documentation certifying their internship has met APPIC standards. Please send:
- Curriculum vitae
- Letter of interest
- Three letters of reference (including one from the postdoctoral internship director) all sent directly from the source
| Postdoctoral Fellowship Program |
| Cedars-Sinai Medical Center |
| Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Neurosciences |
| 8730 Alden Dr., C-301 |
| Los Angeles, CA 90048 |
| Phone: (310) 423-3541 |
| Fax: (310) 423-6511 |
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Following a review of completed applications by the Postdoctoral Selection Committee, we will invite applicants under consideration in for a personal interview.
