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Upcoming Dates & Deadlines

Application Deadline: December 11, 2024 at 11:59pm EST

Interview Notification Deadline: December 13, 2024

Interview Dates (all Virtual): December 18, 2024

Phase I Match Day: February 21, 2025 at 9:00am EST

Program Start Date: August 11, 2025

Program End Date: August 10, 2026

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Sanford Health-Psychology Internship Consortium

Program Mission

The mission of the Sanford Health-Psychology Internship Consortium (SH-PIC) is to train and prepare future psychologists to provide outstanding, culturally competent, and compassionate clinical health care in rural and frontier communities across the Midwest.

Internship Aim

The aim of the Sanford Health-Psychology Internship Consortium is to increase patient access to quality behavioral health services in rural America by creating a pathway within our organization to take pre-doctoral interns through to fully licensed and independently functioning psychologists, recognizing the critical role that psychologists play in the overall delivery of healthcare.

General Information

The Sanford Health-Psychology Internship Consortium is comprised three behavioral health training sites in the Greater Fargo/Moorhead region. The consortium represents the collaborative effort across Sanford Health clinics in the region to share resources and faculty for the purpose of providing a quality educational program for psychology doctoral interns focusing on culturally relevant and responsive treatment to residents of the region of all ages. The SH-PIC training program is a year-long, full-time, 2,000-hour doctoral training experience with four positions for the upcoming 2025 training year.

Please note that SH-PIC is a psychology doctoral internship program and not a practicum training site.

2025-2026 Sanford-PIC Applicant Brochure

Accreditation and Membership

Sanford Health-PIC has been granted full membership by the Association of Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC) and participates in the APPIC Match. Sanford Health’s internship consortium sites can be found in the APPIC Member Directory #2586.
This internship program agrees to abide by all APPIC member policies including match policies that no person at this training facility will solicit, accept, or use any ranking-related information from any intern applicant.

Questions specifically related to the program’s APA accreditation status should be directed to the Commission on Accreditation (CoA):

Office of Program Consultation and Accreditation
American Psychological Association
750 1st Street NE, Washington, DC 20002
Phone: (202) 336-5979

Questions about SH-PIC’s APPIC membership status or the APA accreditation process can be directed to Program Consultant, Dr. Ashley Fortier (afortier@wiche.edu).

Contacting Sanford Health-PIC

Questions regarding our internship program or the application and interview processes may be directed to our Program Administrator, Shelly McCann (Shelly.McCann@sanfordhealth.org) or Program Directors, Dr. Jeffrey Leichter (Jeffrey.Leichter@sanfordhealth.org) and Dr. Jon Ulven (Jon.Ulven@sanfordhealth.org).