Program Description

The Health Psychology Post-Doctoral Fellowship Program positions, while incorporating a framework of standardized training and service are also individualized and flexible, based upon the specific professional interests and needs of each trainee.

Fellows work with patients from a variety of services, including:

  • Trauma Surgery
  • Oncology
  • Neurology
  • Orthopedics
  • Cardiology
  • Plastic Surgery
  • Family Medicine
  • General Surgery
  • Medical Transplant
  • Burn
  • Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
  • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

Fellows also have an opportunity to become more integrated in multidisciplinary teams, where they can go on rounds or be part of regular team conferences.

  • Burn Service
  • Palliative Care Service
  • Organ Transplant Service
  • Acute Care for the Elderly Service
  • Neurosurgery and Neurology Service
  • Vascular Surgery Service
  • Rehabilitation Medicine
  • Pediatric Hematology/Oncology
  • Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)

Fellows receive training in outpatient psychological evaluation related to health psychology. Opportunities to provide peer supervision to practicum students or interns may also be available depending upon the size of the practicum or internship class in any given year. Fellows are involved in regular didactics related to the work that they are doing. They also are required to provide one presentation in a relevant area of health psychology to a non-psychologist community group.