APPIC Award for Excellence
The APPIC Board of Directors offers an Award for Excellence in Diversity Training. This award recognizes outstanding psychologists who demonstrate a history of excellence in diversity training and teaching in APPIC member internship and postdoctoral training programs, and/or a history of administrative activities that support and advance innovative diversity training and teaching in APPIC member programs.
We are honored to share that our Sanford Health internship faculty member, Samantha Beauchman Ph.D., was awarded this biennial honor in 2026 recognizing her contributions to outstanding, innovative, diversity training and teaching within our APPIC-member 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 four behavioral health training sites in the Greater Fargo/Moorhead region and Wisconsin. The consortium represents the collaborative effort across Sanford Health clinics across the regions 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 six positions for the upcoming 2027-2028 training year.
Land Acknowledgement Statement
The Sanford Health Pre-Doctoral Internship Program spans multiple communities and regions across several states. We respectfully acknowledge that the lands on which we live, learn, and serve are the traditional territories of the Dakota (Mdewakanton, Wahpekute), Nakota (Yankton, Yanktonai), Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Ojibwe (Chippewa), and Potawatomi peoples.
We honor their enduring presence and deep connection to this land, recognizing them as the original stewards who have cared for these places for generations. SH-PIC is committed to fostering awareness, respect, and continued learning in partnership with Indigenous communities.
