Mount Sinai-Harlem Health Center Adult Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic (AOPC) Fellowship
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Mount Sinai Morningside, West, and Harlem Health Center
New York, New York
Starts on Monday, September 1, 2025
Applications due Friday, January 3, 2025
This training experience will NOT follow the APPIC Selection Standards with Common Hold Date (CHD) and may not allow applicants to hold offers until the CHD. Applicants may need to respond to an offer for this position prior to completing interviews or knowing their standing with other positions.
This training experience is not an APPIC Member program and is not APA Accredited. Applicants should be aware that this training experience has not undergone a formal external quality review process.
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
Adult Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic (AOPC) Fellowship Director: Taronish Irani, PsyD (taronish.irani@mountsinai.org)
General Description: The Adult Outpatient Psychiatry Clinic Fellowship is a 1-year, full-time training opportunity for one fellow per year. Its basic clinical activities include: Intake Evaluation and Assessment; Individual Psychotherapy; Group Therapy; Crisis Intervention; Supervision; and Consultation with mental health, social service and health professionals, within and outside the AOPC .
The AOPC is a high volume, psychiatric outpatient clinic, serving a diverse population of individuals with wide-ranging socio-demographic, ethno-cultural, psychiatric and medical characteristics. The Fellow gains experience in providing psychotherapy interventions from a range of modalities, and a multitude of theoretical perspectives (e.g. CBT, DBT, psychodynamic psychotherapy). The Fellow collaborates with a team of clinicians, including psychiatrists, nurse practitioners, psychologists, social workers, and trainees, to provide high-quality, evidence-based care. The AOPC also offers services designed to meet the needs of individuals with severe mental illness. A wellness and recovery model informs the treatment, and supports the goal of engagement in vocational, pre-vocational, and/or educational activities. The AOPC offers: intake evaluation; acute symptom management and crisis intervention; psychopharmacologic management; individual psychotherapy; group psychotherapy (i.e. respectively informed by CBT, DBT, process approach, cognitive remediation, and others); family therapy; vocational assessment and rehabilitation, social services and entitlements needs assessment, linkage and case management; disposition planning, linkage and follow-up.
The Fellow will receive weekly supervision, consultation, intake supervision via Mount Sinai Morningside's Comprehensive Assessment Center; they will be exposed to didactics/in service trainings, weekly grand rounds, and have the opportunity to participate in research being conducted within the AOPC clinic.
Additional Information
- Agency Type
- Private/General Hospital
- APPIC Membership
- No
- APA Accredited
- No
- Recognized Specialty
- Clinical Psychology
- Emphasis or focus area
- Serious Mental Illness
- Other Emphasis
- Outpatient Mental Health
- Research Time
- No research time
- Training Director
- Leora Heckelman, PhD
- Contact Email
- leora.heckelman@mountsinai.org
- Contact Phone
- 212-586-5268
- Virtual Interviews
- Virtual Only
- Duration in Months
- 12
- Hours Per Week
- 40
- # of Licensed Supervisors
- 3
- Number of Positions
- 1
- Applications recieved last year
- 25
- Stipend
- $60,400
- Will follow APPIC Selection Standards
- No
- Estimated offer date
- Wednesday, January 31 2024
- Created Date
- Tuesday, January 17 2017
- Unfilled Positions
- 0
- Fringe Benefits
- Full health benefits and paid time off
- Research opportunities
- N/A
- Additional Comments
- All Adult Track Fellows participate in the following didactic seminars: Case conference (viewing target cases from different theoretical/technical perspectives); Specialty didactic modules on newly evolving, evidence-based intervention modalities; Intensive psychoanalytically-driven Psychotherapy Case Conference; and Supervision seminar – including discussion of theories of supervision, an opportunity to supervise, and live supervision of supervisees.
- Application Instructions
- Please include the following materials in with your application:
1) One copy of your CV
2) Two letters of reference
3) Cover letter
All applications are due by January, 3rd 2025. Applications should be submitted via email with all documents to Dr. Taronish H. Irani at taronish.irani@mountsinai.org, and Dr. Angelo Cedeno at Angelo.Cedeno@mountsinai.org
Qualifications: Fellows must have completed their dissertation defense in an APA-accredited Ph.D. or Psy.D. program in clinical or counseling psychology or combined clinical-school psychology and completed their APA-Accredited psychology internship.
This record was last updated on Monday, December 23, 2024
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