On February 18, the results of a national match were announced for psychology internships. Through this process the department’s Yale Doctoral Internship in Clinical and Community Psychology selected its incoming class of 14 fellows who will spend a year training at Yale from July 1, 2022 through June 30, 2023.
These trainees were selected from among a large pool of nearly 300 highly qualified applicants. The psychology leadership were uniform in their excitement regarding the upcoming training year.
The program's director of training, Amber W. Childs, PhD, stated “It is our honor to have matched with such an inspirational cohort! We are eager to dive into what is sure to be a full and enriching year.”
Dwain Fehon, PsyD, chief of psychology at Yale New Haven Hospital, said, “We are fortunate to receive applications from so many of the top psychology graduate students throughout the country. We are very excited about this year’s match results, and we look forward to training tomorrow’s leaders in the field.”
Jacob Tebes, PhD, chief of psychology at the Connecticut Mental Health Center (CMHC), said, “We have had another outstanding match year in attracting an exceptional group of fellows across many diverse training sites within the CMHC.”
Rajita Sinha, PhD, chief of psychology for the department, commented that, "There are over 80 psychologists involved in this training program and their efforts have yielded an exceptional internship program that draws the best graduate students from across the country. We look forward to training the next generation of Health Service Psychology Leaders.”
Psychology Fellows apply to one of nine training rotations based at the Connecticut Mental Health Center and Yale-New Haven Hospital. Students typically complete this clinically oriented internship as the final year of a five-year program of graduate study, which leads to a PhD or PsyD. Additional information on the internship is available at www.psychologytraining.yale.edu.