ADMINISTRATION AND FACULTY

All faculty primary supervisors in the UCSD/VA Psychology Internship Program have academic appointments in the University of California, San Diego Department of Psychiatry, and many hold joint appointments with the VA San Diego Healthcare System. The Chairman of the Department of Psychiatry, UCSD Medical School and the Chief, Psychology Service VASDHS, have jointly appointed two Co-Directors of Clinical Training (DCT) to administer and coordinate the various psychology training activities of the Internship. The DCTs are also charged with carrying out the policies and procedures proposed by the Psychology Internship Training Committee (or Executive Committee) and approved by the Department Chairman and Chief Psychologist. The Executive Committee is composed of selected representatives from each of the training sites, and acts as a task force for the Psychology Internship Training Committee. The administrative office of the Training Program is housed in the Psychology Service at the VASDHS.

The Psychology Internship Training Committee (PITC) consists of most of the psychology faculty located in the training facilities of the Program. Primary supervisors are drawn from this committee. The Chief Interns also sit on the PITC. The PITC is involved with the details of interns' clinical training plans, evaluations, curricula, seminars, workshops, requests for special training experiences, grievances, probation decisions, major policy and procedures. This committee meets periodically throughout the year to conduct appropriate business and participate in the program's planning, implementation and self-study evaluation. By serving on this committee, supervisors participate actively in these activities. Each year one or more interns are chosen to represent their class on the training committee.

The Internship Faculty

Appendix B includes 45 doctoral level psychologists who have integrated UCSD academic appointments and allegiance to the Internship training sites. Psychologists in all settings are engaged in and are rewarded for patient care, professional training, and program evaluation or clinical research. Collectively, the faculty has many ongoing research grants and has published a great number of articles, books, and book chapters.