The selection of a clinical internship is an exciting process involving muck hard work for the applicant. The prospective intern should not assume that every internship site is designed primarily to meet interns' needs or that internships represent themselves accurately. An analogy between clinical evaluation of a client and evaluation of a prospective internship is drawn, and suggestions are made to help applicants successfully identify an acceptable internship.
The matching process for professional internships in psychology has been reviewed by many authors who label the process as being difficult and pressure filled. Currently, the Association of Psychology Internship Centers (APIC) stipulates guidelines to reduce this pressure on prospective interns and APIC members during the selection process. We anonymously surveyed 45 graduate students who recently completed the internship selection process. They reported both major and minor APIC guideline violations. Of those surveyed 53% reported that at least one or more of the programs to which they applied violated APIC guidelines. Seven of those surveyed reported receiving offers before the day of intern selection. Applicants felt anxious, bothered, and pressured in response to many different violations. These findings are discussed in view of more comprehensive research projects in the future. Revision
To improve the health of children who are exposed to urban health risks, there has been a national recognition of the need for better models of training pediatricians. In 2000, in response to this need, the Dyson Foundation launched a new residents-training model that focuses on community health and advocacy, The Anne E. Dyson Community Pediatrics Training Initiative (the Initiative). The Initiative is made up of 12 programs at ten sites, which are working in their communities to improve the health of the children. At its core are five objectives: to equip residents with tools and knowledge to provide community-based health care, to make use of community resources so that residents learn to practice as medical home providers, to engage residents in the communities in which they work, to develop meaningful partnerships between departments of pediatrics and their communities, and to enhance pediatrics training through interdisciplinary collaborations among schools and departments. Curricular approaches at the participating sites differ slightly, but all have explicitly incorporated teaching community pediatrics into their standard rotations and continuity clinics. The authors showcase the programs of the Initiative and explore how the programs have sought buy-in from their parent institutions, faculty, residents, and communities.
In a sample of incarcerated male delinquents (N = 254), dichotomous and continuous measures of handedness were compared in concurrent prediction of delinquent behavior and correlation with past delinquency. The continuous measures proved to be more sensitive indicants of scores on a rating scale of conduct disorder than was the simple dichotomy of left‐ vs. righthanded. This superiority of continuous measures was not seen on other indicants of delinquency, where sinistrality did not relate to delinquency. Sinistrality was related to the ratings of conduct disorder. No differences on measures of delinquency appeared when strongly and weakly lateralized groups of right‐ and left‐handers were compared.
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