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The Psychology Department's predoctoral internship in clinical neuropsychology is a full-time (2000 hours over a 12-month period) training programme that follows the scientist-practitioner model.
Interns are expected to perform supervised clinical service involving both assessment and intervention, clinical teaching in the form of seminar presentations, and research. In keeping with the general mission of the Centre, clinical service delivery focuses primarily on the assessment and treatment of the elderly. However, interns also assess nonelderly adults at Sunnybrook Hospital under the supervision of Baycrest faculty, and didactic training will span all adult age groups.
The internship programme adheres to CPA criteria for clinical neuropsychology internships. Interns are expected to abide by the ethical standards of the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) and of Ontario regulations pertaining to professional conduct. These standards are modelled by the faculty and are taught in the neuropsychology seminar.
All interns complete a 6-month rotation in clinical neuropsychological assessment and a second 6-month rotation encompassing either geriatric psychiatry, neuropsychological rehabilitation-clinical, or neuropsychological rehabilitation-research.
A minor rotation in memory intervention takes place throughout the year and has three components: an educational group on memory and aging for healthy elderly from the community, involvement in a memory group for people with mild cognitive impairment, and individual and group interventions for amnesic individuals and their families. A half-day per week is allotted to research, and didactic and clinical training activities (e.g., neuropsychology seminar, Behavioural Neurology rounds, Psychology department meetings, multidisciplinary team meetings) make up the remainder of the internship.
More detailed information on the neuropsychology internship is available in the internship brochure, via the APPIC website (www.appic.org), or by contacting Jill Rich, PhD (jrich@baycrest.org).
Intern Class of 2000/2001
• Maria Armilio, University of Toronto
• Corey Mackenzie, Queen’s University
Intern Class of 2001/2002
• Leanne Buttross, Alliant Intl University (Fresno); California School of Prof Psychology
• Rhonda Feldman, University of Victoria
Intern Class of 2002/2003
• Lacey Klingler, Georgia School of Professional Psychology – Argosy University
• Amy Siegenthaler, University of Toronto
Intern Class of 2003/2004
• Karen Chipman, University of Western Ontario
• Jelena King, University of Waterloo
Intern Class of 2004/2005
• Jana Atkins, York University
• Eva Svoboda, University of Toronto
Intern Class of 2005/2006
• Maria Tsiakis, University of Ottawa
• Veronica Lozano, University of Houston