Behavioral Medicine and Clinical Psychology

Our interns come from a number of graduate programs across the United States, often with an emphasis on child clinical, pediatric or health psychology. 

In the last five years, 100 percent of our interns have been from PhD psychology graduate programs accredited by the American Psychological Association. Also, all of our students have had some experience working in a medical or child diagnostic setting prior to joining our program. Internship success is optimized when dissertations are completed prior to starting internship.

Our interns report that good clinical training in child and family interventions, experience conducting child and youth assessments, and training within a medical facility prepared them for quick acclimation to our program.

We value comprehensive and diverse training experiences with children, adolescents and families in the context of general clinical and medical settings including assessment, delivery of empirically-based treatment, collaborative clinical work such as work in multi-disciplinary medical environments or schools, work with diverse patient populations, application of research methods to clinically-relevant topics, DEI-related training, community engagement, and leadership activities. We also value personal characteristics that demonstrate professionalism, self-awareness, adaptability, intellectual curiosity, resilience, collaboration, empathy, ethical decision making, and cultural humility.  

Other Required Criteria

• APA-accredited graduate program
• Must have completed the equivalent of 3 years of practicum or work experience (minimum of 800 hours including hours required above)
• Assessment and intervention hours outlined above need to have been work with children, adolescents, and their families (0-18 years)
• Must have written at least 10 child/adolescent integrated psychological testing reports
• Must have completed all major coursework requirements and qualifying examinations for their degrees prior to beginning internship
• Must only have the dissertation requirement to meet during the internship year
• If NOT a U.S. Citizen, authorization to work or to engage in practical training (CPT or OPT) in the U.S. is required.

Additional Criteria

• Aspire to a scientist-practitioner model of care delivery
• Have a good working knowledge of child and adolescent development and the biopsychosocial model of care
• Have supervised experience providing individual, family and group therapy utilizing evidence-based treatment approaches (behavior therapy, cognitive-behavioral therapy, family systems/socio-ecological models)
• Have a good working knowledge of test administration, scoring and interpretation with cognitive instruments such as the WISC-IV and behavioral/emotional checklists (CBCL, BASC, CDI, MASC)
• Have experience with, or an interest in, working in a medical setting with children or adolescents

Cincinnati Children’s is an Equal Opportunity Employer and the O’Grady Residency is committed to provide equal job opportunities to all people without regard to race, color, religion, creed, gender, gender identity or expression, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, mental or physical ability, sexual orientation, marital status, family status, veteran status, genetic information, or any other basis protected by federal, state or local law. We value diverse perspective and backgrounds and are committed to the recruitment of culturally and ethnically diverse interns. We encourage underrepresented minority candidates to apply. The internship is a member of APPIC and adheres to its acceptance procedures.

All matched applicants must successfully complete a credentialing process that includes a careful review of transcripts, health screening and a reference check. In addition, accepted applicants must undergo tuberculosis (TB) testing and provide verification of up-to-date immunizations.

Cincinnati Children’s is a drug-free and smoke-free environment. All new employees are required to submit to a drug urine screen prior to hiring. Cincinnati Children’s also conducts a criminal records check on all final candidates for employment, as required by Ohio law. Please see Cincinnati Children's policies and procedures for details.

• Drug-Free Workplace
• Criminal Records Check

We ask that you submit all application materials online through the APPIC portal. Application due date is Sunday, November 1, 2021. A complete application package consists of:

Behavioral Medicine Track (4 positions)

• Cover letter stating:
• Reasons for applying to our program, including areas of clinical and research interest
• Career interests
• Advocacy or leadership experience
• Experience with evidence-based treatments
• Experience working with medical populations
• Multi-disciplinary team consultation experience
• Completed electronic APPIC application form (available at the APPIC web site). Our APPIC program code, for the APPIC match, is 150311 (Behavioral Medicine track) and 150312 (Clinical Child track)
• Current curriculum vitae that lists practicum work, academic and professional experience and research
• Three letters of recommendation from graduate faculty or supervisors who are familiar with your work in psychology and your personal qualifications. At least one of these letters must be from someone who has supervised your clinical work during graduate school
• Official transcripts of all graduate work

Child Clinical Track (1 position)

• Cover letter stating:
• Reasons for applying to our program, including areas of clinical and research interest
• Career interests
• Community-based or community mental health experience
• Advocacy or leadership experience
• School consultation experience
• Experience with evidence-based treatments
• Completed electronic APPIC application form (available at the APPIC website). Our APPIC program code, for the APPIC match, is 150312
• Current curriculum vitae that lists practicum work, academic and professional experience and research
• Three letters of recommendation from graduate faculty or supervisors who are familiar with your work in psychology and your personal qualifications. At least one of these letters must be from someone who has supervised your clinical work during graduate school
• Official transcripts of all graduate work

Our match philosophy is one that guides us to assist each party involved to make the best choice for an optimal fit. We invite about 25 carefully screened candidates for interviews on four different days, where up to six candidates on each day are met in a more intimate context. Applicants invited to interview for the O’Grady Residency who identify as diverse, are matched with diverse faculty members during the interview process.

This year we will be offering all virtual interviews during the month of December. We will offer one optional in-person open house on January 31, 2022. We understand that not all applicants will be able to or will choose to attend the in person open house. In order to remove bias from the selection process, we will submit our rankings after the interviews, but before the in person open house so as to remove the chance that not attending the in person open house would negatively impact an applicant's evaluation. We like to have an interview day that is as personal and informative as possible, during which written materials are provided for candidates to keep. This year's interview dates are:

• Wednesday, December 8, 2021
• Friday, December 10, 2021
• Wednesday, December 15, 2021
• Friday, December 17, 2021

The training director calls the invited candidates by November 22, 2021. Interviews for incoming resident positions will be conducted virtually. Detailed information will be provided prior to interview date.

Typical Interview Schedule

Interns are selected according to APPIC procedures. By the beginning of January, applicants will be ranked and a list will be submitted to the Internship Match Program. This internship site agrees to abide by the APPIC policy that no person at this training facility will solicit, accept or use any ranking-related information from any intern applicant.

Following receipt of computerized match results, candidates will be contacted by telephone by the training director. Interns will be asked to submit to the required credentialing process (see credentialing section above) prior to the start of the internship.