A. Class Adjutant: Each intern will function as the class adjutant on a rotating basis. As such, the intern serves as the senior member of the class and as a liaison for information between leadership, faculty, and intern. Specific responsibilities include the following:
- For the seminar series, the adjutant is responsible for attendance forms, lecture evaluation forms, continuing education forms for staff, and equipment needed by the presenter. The adjutant conveys weekly seminar information to interns at military, civilian, and Veterans Administration internships in the local area.
- Organize all paperwork and travel for operational activities for internship class.
- Maintain an email and phone list for Air Force, Army, civilian and Veterans Administration Interns.
B. Medical Service Corps: All Navy psychology interns are officers in the Navy Medical Service Corps (MSC), and are strongly encouraged to interact professionally and socially with other MSC officers assigned to the hospital. Such interaction is not only important to the smooth and effective performance of the psychologist's job when it extends beyond the mental health clinic, but also serves to increase the intern's appreciation for other nonphysician specialists in the Navy health care system, just as it increases others' awareness of the psychologist's role.
VI. Supervisors:
A. Most of the ongoing case supervision will be provided by designated privileged staff psychologists on the rotation to which the intern is assigned. Privileged psychiatrists serve as adjunct supervisors and provide additional supervision, particularly on the Psychiatric Consultation Liaison Service (PCLS) and Inpatient Rotations.
B. The intern may be assigned several staff members to supervise trans-rotational cases. Over the course of the year, the intern may receive supervision from several of the psychology faculty and some of the psychiatry staff. It is very important to note that in addition to scheduled supervision times, the faculty is available for and strongly encourages additional supervision and consultation as needed.
TRAINING AIMS
OVERALL TRAINING AIMS: As mentioned previously, the program’s training aims are to provide the trainee with experiences and skills needed to function competently as a broadly-trained clinical psychologist, and to equip the intern with additional knowledge and skills needed to practice competently within the Navy. We identify and evaluate a set of profession-wide and program-specific competencies to ensure we are meeting our broad training aims. By the end of the internship year, interns are expected to demonstrate competencies in the following clinical skills: individual and group psychotherapy (both brief and long term), psychological assessment by interview and by testing, emergent and urgent evaluation as a member of the Psychiatry Consult Liaison Service, interdisciplinary
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