Henry Ford Health Sciences Center offers a Health Psychology Internship Track within a larger Psychology Internship program that focuses on team-based collaborative care. Interns rotate through three services including (1) ambulatory internal medicine doing evaluation, consultation, and referral; (2) transplant surgery performing similar services; and (3) outpatient mental health providing diagnosis and treatment within a multidisciplinary service.
Interns provide direct patient care services as well as education and consultation to the medical staff and residents. The program has another track that will at some point be integrated into a more unified track; currently the track targets medically complex patients and offers rotations through the emergency department, cardiology service (largely inpatient), and trauma surgery service. During these rotations, interns provide the same evaluation, consultation, and referral services as in the Health Psychology track.
Graduates of this program will have strong diagnostic, intervention planning and treatment skills. They develop competence in diagnostic procedures, case conceptualization, and treatment planning based on an empirical tradition as applied within the context of the realities of modern health care and with sensitivity to the individual and cultural needs of their patients. Interns develop an understanding of health care systems and how systems can be organized, financed and assessed. They will develop some familiarity with practice guidelines and how they can advance and hamper patient care.In addition, interns will have an increased sense of their own professional goals and how their needs fit in with current opportunities. Upon graduation, interns will be prepared for advanced training, licensure, Board examination, and/or professional or academic work as would be appropriate for the particular program.
The program is accredited by the American Psychological Association and has been continually accredited since 1983.
