Universal Psychology Postdoctoral Directory Entry

Arizona Psychology Training Consortium/A-Z Neuropsychology, LLC

Arizona Psychology Training Consortium
Tucson, Arizona

Starts on Wednesday, September 3, 2025

Applications due Tuesday, December 31, 2024

Elements of quality clinically focused postdoctoral training

This training experience is a planned and programmed sequence of training that aims to ensure preparation for advanced practice rather than one that is focused on providing supervised hours for licensure. Yes

This training experience ensures that training takes precedence over service delivery regarding the nature, content, volume, and quality of the postdoc’s activities. Yes

This training experience ensures that postdocs receive at least two hours of individual supervision per week for the duration oof the experience. Yes

This training experience is administered by a doctoral-level licensed psychologist who directs and organizes the training experience and its resources, is responsible for the selection of postdocs, and monitors and evaluates the goals and activities of the experience. Yes

This training experience has two or more doctoral-level licensed psychologists who have sufficient time to provide quality supervision and training.   Yes

This training experience includes regularly scheduled structured educational activities that help postdocs its defined goals. These activities may include didactics, seminars, case conferences, and/or research activities. Yes

This training experience has written Due Process and Grievance procedures. Yes

This training experience has the stable and necessary financial (e.g., stipend) and physical resources (e.g., computers, physical space) needed for effective training. Yes

The A-Z postdoctoral residency training program is geared primarily toward comprehensive training in neuropsychological assessment. The program is designed to last 2 years, and to prepare residents to pursue board certification (ABPP) in Clinical Neuropsychology.

Residents have the opportunity to receive training in both pediatric and adult neuropsychological assessment. We believe that a competent understanding of all ages is critical to good practice, and also that a postdoctoral residency program should prioritize breadth of training more than specialization.

Our office is generally open weekdays from 8 am - 5 pm, though Dr. Burger occasionally conducts assessments or otherwise provides services during evening or weekend hours. Residents are not required to work outside of normal business hours; should there be a case they wish to be involved in that is happening outside of normal hours, arrangements can be made to reduce hours during a neighboring week (in order to maintain the 40 hour per work week expectation).

Available Experiences: • Neuropsychological assessment (clinical interview, formal testing, scoring, report writing, and feedback provision) with adults first, and then with children - 75% • Participation in the development and provision of evidence-based group protocols tailored toward conditions of neurologic compromise (e.g., literature reviews, adaptations of existing protocols, etc.) and in the subsequent provision of clinical services in a group format - 10% • Development and provision of 2 presentations (on approved topics) per year, formatted like CE courses - 2.5% • Maintenance of a small (1 client at a time) therapy caseload (optional) - 2.5% • Monthly attendance at didactic trainings, orchestrated by the Arizona Psychology Training Consortium (PHX area), attendance/participation in in-house/conference didactic opportunities - 10%

Group therapy is planned to resume in 2024-2025, with initial target groups including: caregivers of patients with neurodegenerative (dementia) conditions, TBI survivors, and children with executive challenges (e.g., those on the spectrum or with ADHD and related conditions). The opportunity to carry a small therapy caseload (1 client at a time) is also offered to residents once they are independently testing (i.e. following training completion), but not required.

This site offers Individual and Group supervision as well as Case Conferences.

https://www.azptc.org

Additional Information

Agency Type: Private Practice Clinic
APPIC Membership: Yes
APA Accredited: No
Recognized Specialty: Clinical Neuropsychology
Emphasis or focus area: Neuropsychology
Other Emphasis: At A-Z, the primary focus is on assessment across the lifespan. This includes primarily neuropsychological assessment, but also psychoeducational assessment, neurodevelopmental assessment, and autism testing.
Research Time: No research time
Training Director: Elizabeth Capps-Conkle, Psy.D.
Contact Email: drcappsconkle@gmail.com
Contact Phone: 480-712-9998
Virtual Interviews: Available
Duration in Months: 24
Hours Per Week: 40
# of Licensed Supervisors: 2
Number of Positions: 1
Applications recieved last year: 6
Stipend: $45,000
Will follow APPIC Selection Standards: Yes
Estimated offer date: Friday, January 31 2025
Created Date: Monday, December 9 2019
Unfilled Positions: 0
Fringe Benefits: Benefits include paid vacation time (5 days per year, approved in advance), paid sick days (10 per year, as needed), and paid holidays (A-Z has a very generous holiday schedule - work hard, play hard!). Participation in an employee-sponsored retirement program is also offered after the resident successfully completes their first year of training. Incoming residents will have their own office, and all required materials (testing materials, laptop, etc.) will be provided for their use.
Research opportunities: There are no current research projects, but Dr. Burger is open to such participation and has worked on projects in the past.
Application Instructions: Accepted on a revolving basis. For priority Fall consideration, applications are due December 31. Send initial inquiry and CV to both Dr. Sarah Burger: sburger@a-zneuropsychology.com and to Dr. Elizabeth Capps-Conkle: drcappsconkle@gmail.com The full application includes: Letter of Interest, CV, transcript, (3) letters of recommendation, and expected graduation date.

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