Psychology Internship at Hines VA Hospital

Hines VA Hospital is located 12 miles west of downtown Chicago, on a 147 acre campus. Hines is one of the largest and most diversified medical and surgical hospitals in the Department of Veterans Affairs system. The hospital is a tertiary referral center with many specialty services, including some that serve a large U.S. regional area. Hines is authorized to operate 472 hospital beds and logged over 552,000 outpatient visits last year. The hospital staff and students saw approximately 56,000 patients last year. Hines is institutionally affiliated with Loyola University of Chicago, Stritch School of Medicine. Loyola, which shares a campus with Hines, is one of the largest medical centers in the Chicago area, and includes psychology rotations through which Hines interns often rotate.

The goal of training at Hines is to produce graduates ready for postdoctoral or entry-level professional practice in clinical and counseling psychology that are professionally well-rounded and knowledgeable in a broad range of psychological skills. This overarching goal includes proficiency in psychological assessment and diagnosis, psychological treatment and psychological consultation. In addition, our goal is to promote interns' integration of psychological science and theory with psychological practice and encourage the interns' appreciation for and understanding of individual diversity as it interfaces with psychological practice. It is also expected that the intern practices psychology in a professional and ethical manner and moves to a point of responsibility and identity consistent with entry-level professional practice in clinical or counseling psychology. Development of a professional identity is viewed as an essential component of our internship program.

The Psychology Training Program is designed to offer graduate students from APA-Accredited schools a 12-month intensive training experience. All internship slots follow a generalist model of maximum exposure to a variety of experiences. This model affords each intern the opportunity to develop core clinical skills in a variety of hospital settings with a wide range of patient problems and many supervisors. Within our generalist training model, all interns have the opportunity to customize a more specialized track that meets their training and professional goals. Our ability to provide both broad-based generalist training in clinical core competencies and a tailored internship experience reflects our wealth of rotational placements and supervisors at Hines and Loyola concurrent with a relatively small internship class.  For more information, see the program brochure.

 

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