Montefiore Einstein Postdoctoral Residency Program in Health Service Psychology

The Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine launched the Postdoctoral Residency Program in Health Service Psychology in 2022.

It is a one-year, full-time program, offering postdoctoral fellows the opportunity to focus on one of five specializations within health service psychology during their training year:

Goal

Across all five specializations, the Postdoctoral Residency Program at Montefiore/Einstein is committed to providing a comprehensive training experience that will facilitate each postdoctoral fellow’s growth and development as an independent, early-career professional psychologist. As such, a primary goal of the Postdoctoral Residency Program in Health Service Psychology at Montefiore/Einstein is to assist each postdoctoral fellow in strengthening, consolidating, and integrating their clinical and professional skills into their professional identity so that they will be able to function autonomously by the end of their training year.

In service of this goal, postdoctoral fellows will provide approximately 24 hours of clinical service per week, receive at least 1 hour of individual supervision, 1 hour of dyadic or group supervision, and participate on weekly multidisciplinary teams. In addition, postdoctoral fellows will have the equivalent of a full day per week dedicated to educational and professional development activities, including lectures led by fellows and staff members, case conferences, community service, Departmental Grand Rounds, a support group led by a non-departmental psychologist (monthly), and a Division meeting with interns, postdocs, and faculty (monthly). Postdoctoral fellows will also have protected time each week to participate in a scholarly project involving either research or program design and implementation, with an assigned faculty member to provide supervision/mentorship for this project.