Doctoral Internship Program in Clinical Psychology at Mount Sinai-Behavioral Health Center

The Psychology Division of the Department of Psychiatry at Mount Sinai-Behavioral Health Center offers a yearlong, fulltime doctoral internship in clinical psychology (Health Service Psychology)   Our program is available to matriculated doctoral students in clinical and counseling psychology programs accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA).   Our program, formerly housed at Mount Sinai Beth Israel, has been reaccredited by the Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation, American Psychological Association in 2024 for 10 years. Please direct any questions related to the program’s accredited status to the Commission on Accreditation listed below.

Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation
American Psychological Association
750 First Street, NE
Washington, DC 20002-4242 
(202) 336-5979

Email: apaaccred@apa.org
http://www.apa.org/ed/accreditation/index.aspx

Internship admissions, support, and initial placements information. 

Our internship is highly selective.

We participate in the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers Matching Program, administered by National Matching Services, Inc. To apply to our internship, we ask that you register with the National Matching Services online or by contacting them at (416) 977-3431. Our program match code is 146411.

We ask that applicants follow the application process described in the AAPI Application for Psychology Internship (AAPI) Online section of the APPIC website (www.appic.org), and the procedures described for psychology internship programs on the NMS website. (www.natmatch.com/psychint).

Applications must be submitted no later than November 1.

Due to the large number of applications received, we can offer interviews only to a sub-group of applicants. If you are selected for an interview, we will contact you to select an interview date.  Interviews are held remotely.

Seminars focus on various topics including risk assessment, psychopharmacology, interviewing and mental status, record keeping and general hospital psychiatry. Interns participate in these seminars along with psychiatric residents, beginning a year-long interdisciplinary collaboration.

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