Internship Admissions, Support, and Initial Placement Data
Date Program Tables are updated: 9/23/25
Program Disclosures
| Does the program or institution require students, trainees, and/or staff (faculty) to comply with specific policies or practices related to the institution’s affiliation or purpose? Such policies or practices may include, but are not limited to, admissions, hiring, retention policies, and/or requirements for completion that express mission and values? | No |
| If yes, provide website link (or content from brochure) where this specific information is presented: |
Internship Program Admissions
| Briefly describe in narrative form important information to assist potential applicants in assessing their likely fit with your program. This description must be consistent with the program’s policies on intern selection and practicum and academic preparation requirements: |
| The PMHW Doctoral Internship in Health Service Psychology is located at a private group practice in Portland, Oregon. Our philosophy of training is a culturally focused Developmental Mentorship Practitioner (DMP) model designed to train generalists to be prepared for entry-level practice in health service psychology and to function in multiple clinical contexts. The internship positions are for twelve months, beginning mid-August and completing mid-August the following year. Interns receive supervision from licensed psychologists and interact with our multidisciplinary team. Doctoral interns are trained and provide services (both in person and through Telebehavioral Health/TBH) including individual, group, and relationship therapy; assessment, diagnosis and triage; supervision; consultation; and community outreach. Doctoral interns receive peer mentorship and process-oriented experiential training. One of our three internship positions completes a bilingual/Latine rotation with our community partner, Raices de Bienestar. This intern will participate in the same activities as the other three interns, with an additional focus on working with the Spanish-speaking Latine community. The PMHW internship does not enter into training contracts with academic training programs, and the PMHW supervisors do not complete evaluations on interns developed by academic training programs. We will provide a midyear and end of internship progress letter in addition to our evaluation forms. |
Required Hours
Does the program require that applicants have received a minimum number of hours of the following at time of application? If Yes, indicate how many:
| Total Direct Contact Intervention Hours | 500 total |
| Total Direct Contact Assessment Hours | No minimum |
Other Required Criteria
Describe any other required minimum criteria used to screen applicants:
| 1. Graduate Program must be APA or CPA Accredited. 2. Comprehensive Exams must be successfully completed prior to the submission of the ranking list (February 1). 3. Dissertation/ Research Project Proposal must be approved prior to the submission of the ranking list (February 1). |
Financial and Other Benefit Support for Upcoming Training Year
| Annual Stipend/Salary for Full-time Interns | $35,000 |
| Annual Stipend/Salary for Half-time Interns | N/A |
| Program provides access to medical insurance for intern? | Yes |
| If access to medical insurance is provided: | |
| Trainee contribution to cost required? | Yes |
| Coverage of family member(s) available? | Yes |
| Coverage of legally married partner available? | Yes |
| Coverage of domestic partner available? | Yes |
| Hours of Annual Paid Personal Time Off (PTO and/or Vacation) | 80 hours |
| Hours of Annual Paid Sick Leave | 40 hours |
| In the event of medical conditions and/or family needs that require extended leave, does the program allow reasonable unpaid leave to interns/residents in excess of personal time off and sick leave? | Yes |
Other Benefits (please describe):
- 80 hours of paid floating holiday time
- Health, dental, vision insurance covered at 60%
- Employer Paid Life/AD&D
- Voluntary Short Term Disability
- Monthly public transportation pass (TriMet) covered at 50%
- 20% discount on vitamins & supplements through Fullscript
Initial Post-Internship Positions
(Provide an Aggregated Tally for the Preceding 3 Cohorts)
| 2022-2025 | ||
| Total # of interns who were in the 3 cohorts | 2 | |
| Total # of interns who did not seek employment because they returned to their doctoral program/are completing doctoral degree | 1 | |
| PD | EP | |
| Academic teaching | PD = | EP = |
| Community mental health center | PD = | EP = |
| Consortium | PD = | EP = |
| University Counseling Center | PD = | EP = |
| Hospital/Medical Center | PD = | EP = |
| Veterans Affairs Health Care System | PD = | EP = |
| Psychiatric facility | PD = | EP = |
| Correctional facility | PD = | EP = |
| Health maintenance organization | PD = | EP = |
| School district/system | PD = | EP = |
| Independent practice setting | PD = | EP = 1 |
| Other | PD = | EP = |
Note: “PD” = Post-doctoral residency position; “EP” = Employed Position. Each individual represented in this table should be counted only one time. For former trainees working in more than one setting, select the setting that represents their primary position.
