East Carolina University offers a clinical health concentration through its health psychology doctoral program, which emphasizes training for clinical health settings.  The curriculum is based on a biopsychosocial understanding of health and illness and trains psychologists to deliver clinical services in settings such as primary health care hospital teams, rehabilitation, psychiatry, oncology, cardiology, geriatrics, pain clinics, sleep medicine, pediatrics, health maintenance organizations, community mental health agencies, and in the private practice of health psychology. 

Health and illness are viewed as the product of a combination of factors, including biological characteristics (e.g., genetic predispositions), psychological and behavioral factors (e.g., lifestyle, stress, health beliefs), and psychosocial conditions (e.g., cultural influences, family relationships, social support, school experiences). The philosophy of training is rooted in the scientist-practitioner model in which psychologists are trained as both scientists (i.e., competent to engage in scientific research) and practitioners (i.e., competent to provide clinical services). Program participants complete a practicum experience in an integrated care model at the Brody Family Medicine program.  This experience, in particular, prepares students for careers in patient-centered medical homes and other integrated care practices.

Graduates of this program  gain competencies in the assessment of biopsychosocial factors affecting an individual's overall health and well-being including psychological, cognitive, behavioral, social, environmental, and biological/physical factors; become skilled in developing and delivering psychological interventions to promote prevention and wellness and treat psychological conditions that affect health and illness; become skilled in a broad range of psychological interventions and techniques, ranging from psychotherapy to targeted interventions such as stress-management, relaxation training, biofeedback, health promotion, and problem solving therapy; become skilled in collaboration, consultation, and teamwork, which are essential to working within a multidisciplinary team of health professionals such as medical doctors (e.g. family medicine, psychiatry, neurology, cardiology), nurses, physician assistants, occupational therapists, physical therapists, exercise physiologists, nutritionists, social workers, counselors, speech-language pathologists, and public health professionals; and become experts in contemporary research so as to rigorously conduct and apply scientific methods to understanding health and illness as well as select and evaluate clinical treatment strategies based on established scientific knowledge and empirical support.