Part Time Internship

There is negative connotation of "part-time" from a program and internship perspective. Although in doctoral training you may have 9-12 credit hours per semester, you are considered full-time. When you begin practicum placements, it is 20 hours or less per week, but you are enrolled full-time. You may have 9 hours of classes per week.

Some internships are full-time and you work M-T for 32 hours per week, but only 12-15 of those hours may be clinical hours and the rest in supervision, report writing, or didactics. Friday may be designated as Dissertation/research days. Although you may be working anywhere from 32-36 hours a week with 15 clinical hours, it is designated as Full-time. There are restrictions where interns cannot work outside of the internship during the internship year.

Internships normally have 3-4 rotations and some have an administrative-research rotation where you may not have to be in the office daily but you have to do a proposal or have a meeting with staff over your research.

Basically hours in the office may not necessarily determine full-time or part-time status. Sometimes, interns have to take a month or more off and then extend their internship, but they are still considered Full time. APA accredited internships specify training as being required rather then just putting in hours per week. Generally my experience has been negative related to part-time designation from a professional perspective. My actual APA accredited internship was M-Th with Friday being dissertation day as some of us drove back to campus for meeting with advisor/chair on Fridays and one intern who did her internship during her forth year drove back to her campus to take additional courses that year on Fridays.

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Part Time Internship