Stipends, Benefits & Support

Benefits: As employees, interns are provided with the same benefits as are full-time, non-doctoral staff members, including 18 Basic Leave days (i.e, vacation), 7 paid extended leave days (i.e., sick leave), subsidized health insurance, 7 paid holidays, and free on-site parking. Interns are also eligible to participate in tax-deferred child-care, medical care, disability, and retirement annuity programs and are welcome to use hospital sports medicine, library, and computer facilities. There is a child-care facility on-site. Health insurance for children of hospital employees is provided free of charge (i.e., no premium or co-pays).

Professional Development. Intern professional development is supported in a number of ways. Work time is released for educational experiences for interns (e.g., travel to conferences with continuing education workshops). Interns participate in abundant cross- discipline in-house continuing education workshops at no charge. Release time is provided for professional presentations at regional or national conferences, such as APA or the Conference of Child Health Psychology. In addition, we provide two days off for dissertation defense and one day for the EPPP.

Support personnel.Interns have access to support personnel, including five full-time psychology/psychiatry support staff, one check-in/check-out billing liaison, and medical transcriptionists. Support staff aid in scheduling patients, obtaining authorizations, patient check-in/check-out and other clerical work. Also serving the Division are volunteers who are available for routine clerical assigned work, such as filing and compiling patient information packets. There are also personnel to assist with staff and intern research project protocols. For example, the Medical Education Office assists with poster preparations, editing and review tasks, in addition to slide preparation (Photography). There is also statistical consultation available for hospital based research studies. Finally, there is computer/technological support available on a daily basis.

Office space and equipment. Interns share a large office located in the Division of Behavioral Health next to training rooms. Each intern has his/her own individual network computer, e-mail account, and voice mail. Computer support training, electronic medical record use, and internet access are also provided.

Clinical space and equipment. Space for seeing patients includes nine therapy rooms, four of which are equipped for live supervision via one-way mirrors or video capabilities. Sports medicine facilities (e.g., bowling and basketball court) are also used therapeutically. There is also an extensive playground at the entrance to the outpatient lobby.

Research support. There is availability of statistical consultation for Institution Research Board approved research projects at no charge, as well as availability of small grant research awards (Nemours Research Programs), awarded on the basis on scientific merit. Frequently, interns finish their dissertations while on internship.