Company Name:

Nassau University Medical Center

Location:

East Meadow, New York

Population Served:

0-4, 5-12, 13-17, 18-25, 26-64, 65+

Mandatory Days:

Friday AM

Appropriate for:

Any Level

Orientation

Integrative

Posted

October 10, 2018

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Nassau University Medical Center Psychology Externship

NUMC will be following PSYDNYS guidelines for the match process:

The first date applications will be accepted is on January 8, 2024.  Applications submitted before this date will not be accepted. Applications will continue to be accepted through January 15, 2024 and will not be accepting new applications after this date. No preference will be give to applicants applying early. 


Interviews will be offered starting on January 17th. 

Interviews will be scheduled between January 24th and February 29th. 

 

 

Please note that all psychology externs must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 prior to starting the externship at Nassau University Medical Center. 

Also note that the hospital requires that psychology externs have workers compensation insurance (in addition to liability insurance) paid for by their training program.

When applying for an externship at NUMC please acknowledge acceptance of these requirements and your program's agreement in your cover letter.

 

Contact Information

Name of Externship: Nassau University Medical Center Clinical Psychology Externship

Name of Externship Coordinators: Nicholas Forlenza, Ph.D. and Casey Dowdell, PsyD

Street Address: 2201 Hempstead Tpke. East Meadow, N.Y. 11554

Telephone: 516-572-3244

Fax: 516-296-2284

Email: nforlen1@numc.edu and cdowdell@numc.edu

General Information

Start date: September 6, 2024

End date: June 6, 2025

Appropriate for: Clinical Psychology trainees. Please note that we are unable to accept applicants from School Psychology programs, there must be a clinical component to the program.

Scheduling: 2 or 2 1/2 days per week, depending on rotation desired. Friday is a mandatory day for the externship as didactics are held in the morning. However, these seminars are over by 11 a.m. All religious observances are respected and accommodated for.

Internship Policy: Accepting an externship placement at NUMC does not interfere with a candidate's ability to return as an intern, regardless of how recently the externship was completed. The opportunity to work with an extern for a full academic year and observe the quality of their work will often give that extern an advantage when applying for the internship program.

Application Process

Materials to be submitted:

1. a brief cover letter, stating interest in our program and rotations of interest

2. a letter from the director of training at your school, stating that you are a student in good standing and eligible for externship

3. a transcript of your graduate work in psychology

4. a resume/CV

5. a de-identified case summary

6. 2 letters of recommendation 

 

When interviews be conducted?

NUMC follows the guidelines established by PSYDNYS regarding the externship application process. Though interview offers will begin on January 17th, the first interview scheduled will not be until January 24th. Interviews will continue up until February 29th. All offers for an interview will be made via email.


Prior experience required:

With regards to prior experience needed, background in psychological  assessment is helpful. Extern candidates need at least to have had the didactic preparation to do psychological assessments; the amount of hands-on experience can vary and we consider applicants with very little experience.

NUMC does accept applications from students concurrently applying for internship.

 

Description of Externship

 

Overview

Nassau University Medical Center (NUMC) is a 530-bed tertiary care teaching hospital that has provided vital medical serves to Nassau County since 1935. The psychology externship at NUMC has a total of 7 positions that provide training with both an outpatient and inpatient component. 5 of these externs will be assigned to the adult outpatient clinic for their outpatient placement and 2 will be assigned to the child and adolescent clinic.


We adhere to the guidelines introduced by the graduate programs, limiting the hours of externship according to the hours set by each program. These hours will often need to be spread across 2 ½ days. However, depending on the rotation desired the extern may be able to fulfill their requirements in 2 days (this will be detailed below). All externs need to attend the required didactic seminars and an administrative meeting held on Friday mornings. Days and hours are flexible. Friday is the only required day.


Nassau University Medical Center enthusiastically welcomes applications for our internship program from our past externs. This in no way adversely affects the ranking of these applicants, regardless of the proximity between externship and internship year. In fact very often preference is given to these applicants because of the experience that the supervisors have with the student.


The extern will carry an outpatient adult and/or child caseload of about 3 patients, for the entire duration of the externship. Externs will be expected to complete at least 3 full battery psychological assessments throughout the course of the training year. The population is heterogeneous, many patients are severely character disordered, many are chronically mentally ill. The extern is also placed in two hospital based/inpatient rotations among adult or child psychiatry units, and neuropsychology. These rotations are sequential, and are ½ the duration of the externship (4.5 months each). Individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy and psychological assessment in these settings are the primary experiences offered.


Inpatient Rotations Offered


Unit 01

01 is an adult inpatient unit treating severely ill patients whom have demonstrated a tendency of acting out violently or in an otherwise dangerous manner. The extern's experience on this unit includes individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, and psychological assessments. On this rotation hours can be split over 2 days in the week (one must still be Friday).


Unit 02

02 is the child and adolescent inpatient rotation. The population consists of 5 to 17 year olds presenting with a wide range of psychological disorders requiring inpatient care. The extern's experience on this unit includes individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, and psychological assessments. On this rotation hours must be split over 3 days in the week.


Unit 12 and Unit 14

These are 2 separate units consisting of a total of 87 adult inpatient beds. Each unit has one extern placed there per rotation. On these units the extern's experience includes individual psychotherapy, group psychotherapy, and psychological assessments. On the unit 14 rotation hours can be split over 2 days in the week (one must still be Friday). The unit 12 rotation requires that hours be split over 3 days in the week.


Neuropsychology

The extern on this rotation will be supervised by a neuropsychologist and complete neuropsychological assessments of both inpatients and outpatients at NUMC. There is an opportunity to participate in cognitive remediation group therapy (occurs on Thursdays) as well. On this rotation hours can be split over 2 days in the week (one must still be Friday).

 

Supervision

Two hours a week minimum of individual supervision will be given: one hour for outpatient work, and one hour with the inpatient psychologist to supervise the extern's work on the inpatient service. There is an administrative meeting on Friday mornings that the extern is required to attend. If the externs elect to do additional work, such as a mini-rotation on one of the inpatient units (e.g. carrying a child inpatient case while primarily assigned to an adult unit), or are assigned an outpatient assessment, additional supervision will be given. Much of our psychology staff is psycho-dynamically oriented, but the extern can expect to be exposed to other orientations such as cognitive behavioral, family systems approaches and eclectic approaches.

 

Didactics

There is a seminar held on Friday mornings from 9:00 am to 10:15 am. Seminars are diverse and include topics ranging from therapeutic interventions for substance abuse, trauma victims, and families to neuropsychological and personality assessment. Case seminars are also included as part of the Friday didactics. Externs are also welcome to attend the Grand Rounds held by the psychiatry department every Wednesday from 1:00 pm to 2:30 pm. Grand Rounds attendance is entirely voluntary for the extern.

 

 

Company Name:

Nassau University Medical Center

Location:

East Meadow, New York

Population Served:

0-4

Mandatory Days:

Friday AM

Appropriate for:

Any Level

Orientation

Integrative

Posted

October 10, 2018

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