The Conemaugh Memorial Psychology Internship experience involves training which extends and integrates the intern's basic academic program. The internship is designed to offer a broad range of experiences to develop these core professional competencies. Interns have a shared responsibility in designing and planning the internship experience in collaboration with the intern’s Chief Psychologist, supervisors and Psychology Training Director.

• Integrates training plan with intern's overall graduate / professional school training plan
• Coherent progression from basic knowledge and practical clinical skill competencies
• Prepares graduates to assume an entry level doctoral psychology position in medical, inpatient, outpatient, adult, child, and adolescent psychiatric behavioral health care settings
• Development of proficient to advanced level clinical skills through supervised clinical experiences in the application of theoretical and empirical psychological knowledge
• Provides a continuum of clinical training opportunities within a broad range of interdisciplinary clinical settings
• Training curriculum strives to be relevant to the current demands of practicing psychologists and the populations they serve
• Activities of the internship designed to teach and develop professional competence
• Provision of service to culturally diverse communities, as well as the treatment of underserved populations with significant health disparities
• Didactic training seminars balanced between needs for training, training staff competency, and input from former and current interns based on a needs assessment
• Training to develop interventions based on matching clinical presentation to theory and empirically based treatment
• Training to understand and articulate the assumptions and limitations of their interventions, as well as implement practices that address the problems they encounter
• Demonstrate competence in all professional issues related to the practice of psychology
• Development of competency-tiered manner, with the interns being sequentially supervised through didactics, role modeling, (e.g., observing their supervisors in the process of intakes, evaluations, or interventions), direct observation by supervisors, indirect observation by supervisors via videotape, and case presentation-based supervision