Postdoctoral Fellowship in Clinical Neuropsychology: The Division of Psychiatry at Geisinger Medical Center is inviting applications for a postdoctoral fellowship in adult clinical neuropsychology beginning July or September of 2012. The postdoctoral fellow will provide outpatient neuropsychological evaluations to patients referred from primary care physicians, psychiatrists and neurologists. The postdoctoral fellow will also help provide inpatient consultations to specialty medical services, including Trauma Surgery, Psychiatry, Medicine, and Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation.
Geisinger Medical Center is a Level One Trauma Center. The fellow will have the opportunity to serve as a multidisciplinary team member providing inpatient neuropsychological consults to the Division of Trauma Surgery for patients with head injuries. The fellow will gain experience and training throughout the fellowship with neuropsychological assessments of patients with traumatic brain injuries, dementia, and neuropsychiatric disorders. Gaining experience with assessment of epilepsy patients is also anticipated. The fellow will attend weekly didactics including case studies and be responsible for a research project and have opportunity to provide educational presentations. This is a two-year fellowship. Annual stipend is $37,270 plus continuing education allowance and benefits. Requirements include: Doctoral candidate at APA accredited program in clinical or counseling psychology, APA accredited pre-doctoral clinical internship with experience in neuropsychology, letter from dissertation chair stating
anticipated completion of dissertation by June, 2012 if a July start date or August 2012 if a September start date. Experience in a medical setting is preferred but not required. Please send curriculum vitae, cover letter, 3 letters of reference, 2 sample reports, and copy of graduate school transcript to Bradley J. Wilson, PhD, ABN, Geisinger Medical Center, Division of Psychiatry, 100 N. Academy Avenue, Danville, PA, 17822-1335 or e-mail to bwilson1@geisinger.edu. Check our website www.geisinger.edu/Fellowships/neuropsych
