When students first enter the clinical program they are assigned a faculty advisor in the Psychology Department. Together they choose two other faculty members to form an evaluation committee. The evaluation committee reviews the students' academic progress at least once each academic year and reports to the clinical faculty on the students' progress. At the end of each semester students submit a portfolio of accomplishments to their advisors. In addition to starting a growing portfolio of accomplishments during the first year, the students are also expected to meet these other requirements:
1) Pass two semesters of graduate statistics and one course in research
methods. The statistics courses should be taken in the first year.
2) Attend the Department's monthly brown bag seminar on ethics. This
is mandatory in years one and two of graduate study.
3) Pass a graduate level course in which the history of psychology is
treated in some detail.
4) Pass one graduate level course at Washington University in four of
the following five general areas:
a) Social or Personality
b) Abnormal or Health Psychology
c) Biological Neurological Basis of Behavior
d) Cognitive, Learning, or Perception
e) Development or Aging
Students are required to maintain a B average throughout their graduate study and to
pass all required clinical courses. In addition to the above requirements, students are also expected to complete a qualifying research project during the first several years of their graduate study and to pass an oral subject matter examination in the students' area of specialization. After the third or fourth year of study the student should be ready to begin dissertation research, which is normally completed during the fourth or fifth year of residence. The dissertation must then be defended in an oral examination. Clinical students must also complete a two year practica sequence and successfully complete an APA-approved intership.
In addition, all students are expected to obtain teaching experience commensurate with preparation for an academic career. Training and effective teaching is gained through enrollment in the Department's teaching seminar at the end of the first year, through participation as a teaching assistants in the department, and through independent responsibility as a course instructor in the Department, University College, and summer school. |
