This pre-doctoral internship is designed to train future psychologists to work in health care settings as providers of comprehensive psychological services that stress interdisciplinary collaboration.

The internship experience involves:

• 2,000 hours of training, in not less than 12 months and not more than 24 months consecutively
• Training which extends and integrates the intern's basic academic program
• Broad range of experiences to develop core professional competencies
• Shared responsibility in designing and planning the internship experience in collaboration with the intern’s supervisors and Psychology Training Director
• Faculty facilitation of the transformation from role of student to that of professional psychologist
• Serving as a mental health resource to its employees, local students, medical professionals, and the larger community.

Conemaugh Memorial psychologists provide training in empirically-validated treatment with the goal of recovery; helping individuals with chronic mental illness develop as much autonomy as possible. Conemaugh Memorial is committed to preparing psychologists for ethical practice in clinical application of psychology with a particular emphasis on professional practice in an interdisciplinary setting. Upon completion of the internship, interns are prepared to assume an entry level doctoral psychology position across the lifespan in multiple care settings (i.e., medical, inpatient, outpatient and behavioral health care settings).

This program offers two tracks: primary care psychology and a clinical track. The two interns are located within the Family Medical Center, and train along with 18 family medicine residents and faculty, beginning at orientation. Other rotations include cardiac rehabilitation, neuroscience, oncology, inpatient adult and child psychiatry, HIV/AIDS care, and bariatric surgery assessment.