Clinical Training Sites
Clinical training sites have spanned across the URMC enterprise, from our Strong Memorial Hospital campus to our outpatient clinics in downtown Rochester. Offerings vary year to year - below are examples of current and past training sites.
Inpatient Sites:
Inpatient Medicine in Psychiatry (IMIP) is a unique 20-bed unit that offers psychiatric treatment concurrent with treatment for serious medical illnesses. Psychology interns function as full members of a multidisciplinary team and play a key role in staff training and suicide risk assessments and safety planning. Frequently-used treatment modalities include brief motivational interventions to promote healthy behavior for patients with harmful substance use or chronic medical conditions, brief bedside counseling for depression, anxiety, and adjustment problems, and assessment and intervention plans for patients with difficult behaviors.
If you're interested in learning more about the impetus for psychology's integration into this unit, read preliminary psychology/iMIP collaborative research.
Adult Inpatient Psychiatry Interns work with adults and older adults in an acute psychiatric inpatient setting that spans across multiple units. Patients are admitted for acute psychiatric crises, including but not limited to suicidality and psychosis. Interns conduct psychological testing, provide consultation to multidisciplinary teams, and work with patients by providing individual and group therapy. Interns develop skills working in a fast-paced setting and responding to a variety of patient and staff needs.
Inpatient Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation is a 20 bed unit that offers rehabilitation services to individuals recovering from complex illness and injury. The training provided on this service focuses on the development of skills working as part of an inpatient interdisciplinary team serving individuals recovering from and adapting to a wide range of illnesses, injuries, and disabilities. Exposure and skill development in neuropsychology is also available during this rotation for interested interns.
Outpatient Sites
Behavioral Health Partners is a mental health resource for the University of Rochester employees and their adult dependents enrolled in the university's healthcare plan. The primary mission is to deliver personalized and accessible mental health care aimed at enhancing the overall well-being of UR employees and their families. BHP offers assessments, individual psychotherapy, and medication management for conditions such as depression, anxiety, stress, and ADHD within a goal-oriented treatment framework.The BHP Elective rotation will occur onsite at a shared office suite in Pittsford, NY. During this rotation, interns will:
- Attend and actively contribute to interdisciplinary team meetings.
- Provide evidence-based individual psychotherapy under the co-supervision of J. MacLaren Kelly, MAPP, PhD, and Ann Cornell, PsyD, CEAP.
Collaborate with other healthcare professionals on clients' treatment teams.
Telehealth/Geriatrics is a unique training opportunity that focuses on the development of clinical intervention skills via a telehealth platform working with an aging population residing in long-term care and skilled nursing facilities in both rural and urban regions of New York state. Interns have the opportunity to provide consultation to multidisciplinary healthcare teams and can focus on development of integrated care skills.
Interventions for Changes in Emotions, Perception, and Thinking (INTERCEPT) Program: An outpatient clinic for people ages 15-28 who are considered to be at clinical high-risk (CHR) for the development of a psychotic disorder in the next 1-2 years. Interns doing a major rotation at the INTERCEPT Program will be part of a multidisciplinary team including psychologists, social workers, nurse practitioners, licensed mental health counselors, researchers, and graduate students. Interns will complete comprehensive intake batteries, see patients for individual treatment sessions, participate in groups, and conduct additional (i.e., non-intake) assessments as needed. INTERCEPT opened in 2022. As with other CHR programs, the goal of treatment is to prevent the onset of a psychotic disorder. Interns completing a rotation at the INTERCEPT Program will obtain an in-depth experience in the field of risk factors for psychosis, and preventive treatment. Assessment measures include the SIPS (Structured Interview for Psychosis-Risk States) and the Positive Symptoms and Diagnostic Criteria for the CAARMS Harmonized with the SIPS (PSYCHS), in addition to other measures related to mood, anxiety, and substance abuse. Individual treatment will include supportive, emotion-focused, cognitive-behavioral, and psychodynamic approaches depending on the needs of the patient. INTERCEPT is a site for multiple research studies, and is participating in the NIMH-funded Accelerating Medicines Partnership ProNET study.
Lazos Fuertes is a URMC Spanish-language outpatient mental health clinic serving Spanish-speaking adults (18+). Lazos offers medication management, as well as individual and group therapy, with care provided by a multidisciplinary bilingual team of psychiatrists, psychologists, nurses, therapists, and administrative staff. As one of the only bilingual, bicultural mental health services outside of New York City, Lazos Fuertes is an unmatched resource for the large Latinx community in Western New York. This elective focuses on the development of assessment and intervention (individual and group) skills with Spanish-speaking adults, as well as skills working with an interdisciplinary team. Opportunities for involvement in research with Spanish-speakers are also available. Interns must be proficient in Spanish to qualify for this training opportunity.
Deaf Wellness: The Deaf Wellness Center (DWC) is a program of the University of Rochester Medical Center, based in its Department of Psychiatry. The DWC staff engage in clinical services, teaching, and research activities that pertain to mental health, healthcare, sign language interpreting, and other topics that affect the lives of people who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. Intern training at this setting focuses on the development of assessment and intervention skills with Deaf individuals. Interns must be proficient in American Sign Language (ASL).