Important Dates:
Location: St. Paul, MN
Contact Person:
Lisa Zak-Hunter
Contact Information:
zakx0031@umn.edu
Next Application Due:
December 16, 2024
Apply at: z.umn.edu/BHintern
Next Interview Date:
TBD
In-person second looks can be arranged.
Next Start Date:
TBD
Intern activities will include:
• Integrated care/precepting duties.
• Conventional psychotherapy working with individuals, couples, and families.
• Teach family medicine residents through lectures, didactics, 1:1 consultation, and live/video review of their appointments with patients.
• Work effectively in an interprofessional team (faculty physicians, resident physicians, clinical pharmacists, care coordinators, and many others).
• As indicated throughout the academic year, training experiences include working alongside providers through the residency in Pharmacy, Social Work/Care coordination, In-Patient medicine, psychiatry, sports medicine, and sexual medicine.
• Supervision will be provided by a MN state approved LMFT supervisor and an American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy (AAMFT) approved supervisor. Other supervisory experiences with departmental psychologists and post-doctoral primary care behavioral health psychology fellows may also occur.
Benefits:
Pre-doc, Post-doc, both, or either:
Pre-doc
Trainees per year:
1
Stipend:
$41,932.80; additional with full Minnesota license
Other Benefits:
· 22 vacation days & federal holidays
· Full health benefits (medical, dental, paid sick leave)
· Optional retirement plans
· Conference Stipend: $1,000
· Minnesota license reimbursement
· Up to $1000 reimbursement moving expenses if clinic is 50+ miles from current location
· 1 day/8 hours a week for scholarly work/dissertation writing
Length:
1 year and 1 month (13 months)
Required Qualifications (must be mentioned on résumé):
• Currently enrolled in a doctoral program for marriage/couple and family therapy.
• Passed National Licensing Exam for Marriage and Family Therapists and applied for MN licensure prior to position commencement.
• Authorized to work for any employer in the United States. The Department is unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of employment Visas for this position. Preferred Qualifications:
• Completed all doctoral level coursework strongly preferred. May make exceptions for applicants further along in online programs.
• Advancement to doctoral candidacy prior to position commencement is highly preferred.
Application Process:
3 letters of recommendation with direct contact information
Personal statement
CV
Current Doctoral transcript
Description
St. John’s Family Medicine Residency, as a part of the Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota School of Medicine, offers a 13 month Pre-Doctoral Behavioral Health Internship for Marriage and Family Therapy students. St. John’s Family Medicine Residency is a 6-6-6 residency (18 total residents) situated on the East Side of St. Paul, MN. Clinicians practice at M Health Fairview Phalen Village Clinic and provide hospital care at St. John’s Hospital in suburban St. Paul. The clinic serves a predominantly urban, Southeast Asian refugee population and is seeing growth in its population of East African refugees as well. The residency has physician faculty with interests in women’s health, sports medicine, geriatrics, adolescent care, hospital medicine, and office-based procedures. The interdisciplinary team also includes pharmacy, behavioral health, and social work.
The Behavioral Health Intern will engage in clinical work including psychotherapy for individuals, couples, and families as well as integrated care opportunities including joint appointments, hallway consults, consults via electronic medical record etc. The trainee will also have educational and teaching opportunities including assisting with family medicine resident didactics, noon conferences, and second-year residents’ behavioral medicine rotation, implementing resident wellness curriculum, and completing resident video reviews and shadowing (in-patient and outpatient experiences).
Additional training experiences include working alongside providers in Pharmacy, Social Work/Care coordination, inpatient medicine, Psychiatry, Sports medicine, and Sexual medicine. Supervision will be provided by a Minnesota State Approved Supervisor (and AAMFT Supervisor-in-Training) and an AAMFT Approved Supervisor.
Applicants must be enrolled in a marriage/couple and family therapy doctoral program, have completed their doctoral level coursework, and advanced to candidacy by the internship start date.
Interns must also be license eligible (Associate or Full license) in Minnesota.
Apply at: z.umn.edu/BHintern
For more information:
https://med.umn.edu/familymedicine/education-training/medical-family-therapy-internship