Our Program
The Providence Medical Group – Oregon Integrated Care Psychology
Residency Program is a part of Providence Health and Services. Providence
Health and Services is a not-for-profit Catholic network of hospitals,
care centers, health plans, physicians, clinics, home health care, and
affiliated services guided by a Mission of caring that the Sisters of
Providence began in the West nearly 160 years ago. The residency program
was started in 2015 with two residents placed in Providence Medical Group
(PMG) primary clinics functioning as Behavioral Health Providers. With
ongoing Providence support the residency has grown to its current state
of 5 residents in the program.
The primary aim of the residency program is to prepare psychologists to
function effectively in integrated care settings as Behavioral Health
Providers. Recognizing that this is an emerging and rapidly developing
area of practice the program also provides psychologists with the knowledge,
skills and abilities to function in integrated care leadership roles.
Integrated care leadership roles include program development/implementation,
expansion of integrated care into health care settings beyond primary
care, and development of healthcare policy related to the integration
of behavioral health and general medical care settings.
Accreditation
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Our program is Accredited (on contingency)! We completed and submitted
a self-study with the American Psychological Association’s Commission
on Accreditation in December 2018. Subsequently, the program was approved
for a site visit completed in November 2019. As with all initial accreditations
for post-doctoral residency programs in psychology, the PMG Clinical Psychology
Residency was accredited on contingency by the Commission on Accreditation
of the American Psychological Association beginning in April 2020. “Accredited,
on contingency” was granted to our program because it was deemed as
meeting all standards as set forth by the commission with the exception of an initial requirement of submitting specific outcome
data on residents completing the program. Once two cohorts have completed
the program, the required data will be provided to the commission in 2022,
when the program will be eligible for full accreditation. For more information,
please contact the Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation: 750
First Street NE; Washington, DC 20002-4242; Telephone: (202) 336-5979;
https://www.accreditation.apa.org/about-coa. Additionally, the residency is designed to meet all standards for a
psychology residency in the state of Oregon.
Curriculum
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Residents participate in the following combination of activities that are
designed to work synergistically to develop advanced competency as clinical
health service psychologists functioning in integrated healthcare settings.
Residents work as Behavioral Health Providers embedded in Providence Medical
Group clinics for the service delivery component of their training for
28-30 hours per week. This experience gives them the opportunity to build
advanced skills and competency in:
- Application of the foundational knowledge base and current evidence to
the implementation/provision of behavioral health services in primary care.
- Functioning as a "go to" consultant and knowledge expert in ethical/legal
issues encountered in health care settings.
- Provision of behavioral health integration services to a diverse patient
population within a diverse multidisciplinary healthcare provider team.
- Effective application of screening oriented assessment tools commonly utilized
in medical settings to guide the provision of behavioral health integration
services and facilitate population based healthcare goals and initiatives.
- Development of focused concise consultation skills that are well suited
for the primary care and other medical settings.
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Program didactics and clinical rotation experiences provide residents with:
- Working knowledge of the foundational and current empirical evidence base
that provides the rationale for behavioral integration services and informs
strategies for their effective implementation.
- Specialized training in healthcare ethics and cultural competency through
the internationally recognized Providence Center for Health Care Ethics.
- Knowledge of the evidence base regarding the promotion and development
of culturally diverse, multidisciplinary teams.
- Knowledge of the empirical basis and psychometric properties of assessment
tools commonly utilized in primary care and other medical settings.
- Knowledge of consultation models that inform effective behavioral health
consultation in integrated care settings.
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All residents receive individual and group supervision that:
- Provides clinical oversight of their direct service.
- Integrates didactic knowledge with the development of advanced service
delivery, consultation and leadership roles.
- Provides mentorship in the development of advanced service delivery, consultation
and leadership roles.
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The program differs from doctoral internship training in that internship
provides the generalist profession wide competencies that prepare a psychologist
for focused training in behavioral integration. The Providence Oregon
Psychology Residency builds on that generalist training to provide advanced
and focused training that prepares the resident to work in a variety of
integrated care settings. The following areas of focused advanced training
distinguish our residency program from internship training and from other
postdoctoral training programs:
- Review of foundational research that defines the benefit and best practice
for psychologists working in integrated settings.
- Focused training in healthcare related law and ethics.
- Focused training in the science, value, promotion, and development of a
diverse healthcare workforce.
- Focused training in primary care and medical specialty oriented assessment
methodology.
- Focused training in primary care, multidisciplinary, oriented consultation.
- The overall duration of the program is 52 weeks with an average of 40 total
program hours per week. It requires 12 months or one full calendar year
to complete the program.
- Estimated Weekly Schedule:
|
Monday |
Tuesday |
Wednesday |
Thursday |
Friday |
AM |
Home Clinic(s) |
Home Clinic(s) |
Longitudinal Rotation |
Clinical Rotation |
Home Clinic(s) |
PM |
Home Clinic(s) |
Home Clinic(s) |
1-3pm Individual Supervision
3-4pm Didactic
4-5pm Group Supervision
|
Clinical Rotation |
Home Clinic(s) |
Didactics & Clinical Rotations
- The program includes a weekly didactic hour with the exception of one week
per month that is dedicated to the monthly Behavioral Health Provider
meeting. The sample didactic curriculum (appendix A) provides knowledge
of the evidence base associated with the development of the post-doctoral
level competencies that support the aims of the program. The format of
the didactics combines lecture, case examples, and group discussion.
- Residents are encouraged to attend 5 Providence Ethics Center “Ethics
Core Program” seminars during the program year with the requirement
to attend the full-day level one Ethics Core course during their first
few weeks. The ethics programs are full day or half-day (3-4 hour) workshops.
The format of the ethics didactics also combines lecture, case examples,
and group discussion. Appendix B contains a brochure that includes a description
of the Ethics Core Program.
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Clinical rotation opportunities include:
- Advanced Heart Failure Clinic
- Bariatric and Wellness Services Clinic
- Behavioral Health Partial Hospitalization and Intensive Outpatient Services
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Psychiatric Outpatient Clinic
- **Rotations are subject to change**
Supervision
- The resident weekly schedule includes 2 hours of face to face individual
supervision with a psychologist licensed in Oregon for at least 2 years
which is consistent with the Oregon Board of Psychology requirements for
a residency supervisor. Residents meet each week for one hour of group
supervision and one hour of didactics 2-4 times per month. They also meet
once monthly with neighboring Behavioral Health Providers from 4-5 nearby
Providence clinics to discuss clinical cases, refine workflows, exchange
community resources, etc. Finally, they also attend a once monthly meeting
(3 hours) with all area Behavioral Health Providers.
- Residents are assigned an individual supervisor, who will work with them
for the duration of their residency. Individual supervision is provided
by a psychologist who works in one of the Providence Medical Group clinics
as a Behavioral Health Provider in a role similar to the resident’s
role in their primary placement clinic.
- Per Oregon law, the individual supervisors assume professional and legal
responsibility for the work of the residents including monitoring patient
care, ensuring the quality of practice, overseeing all aspects of patient
services, and mentoring the resident. As part of their supervisory responsibilities,
each supervisor engages in live observation of the resident’s direct
patient care at least 2 to 4 times during the training year – with
preference for once quarterly observations. This direct observation adds
to and informs the individual supervisors’ evaluation of their resident trainee.
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Per Oregon Laws, if a resident works 1–20 hours in a week, the resident
must receive at least one hour of individual face-to-face supervision
during that week. If a resident works more than 20 hours in a week, the
resident must receive at least two hours of supervision during that week.
One hour must be individual and one hour may be group supervision. Group
supervision must be:
- A formal and on-going group of at least three mental health professionals
- Facilitated by a licensed psychologist
- Approved by the resident’s supervisor
If you would like a copy of the Resident Handbook,
Click Here.
September 2021 Postdoctoral Residency Admissions, Support, and Initial
Placement Data

