Position Description

Overview

This is a 13 month, full time (approx 40 hours/week) pre-doctoral internship position for a family therapist trainee interested in learning more about integrated behavioral healthcare, medical family therapy, primary care, and family medicine residency education. The intern will be responsible for providing conventional psychotherapy and integrated behavioral healthcare within a family medicine residency clinic in St. Paul, MN. The intern will engage regularly in hallway and medical chart consultation with medical providers, formal teaching opportunities with family medicine residents, and access to further personal training and cross disciplinary supervision.

Through this, the intern will learn how to collaborate and work with a multidisciplinary team including pharmacy, nursing, social work, behavioral health and family medicine; understand how care is provided in a primary care setting; provide brief integrated care interventions; learn about chronic disease management and the role of behavioral health; participate in quality improvement projects; and teach medical learners-primarily family medicine residents and medical students (lectures, hands on activities, consultations). The position duties are mirrored after those of the Director of Behavioral Health. The intention upon leaving this internship is that the trainee be prepared to work in a variety of settings including integrated behavioral healthcare, primary care, academic medicine/residency training sites, and even private practice with an emphasis on medical family therapy. Please see below for further details:

Clinical Opportunities and Training

• ~40% conventional psychotherapy (individuals, couples, families)

• ~40% integrated behavioral healthcare, consults, medical covisits

• We primarily treat conditions such as:

  • Depression, anxiety, PTSD, other trauma

  • Stressful family dynamics, parenting concerns, child behavioral concerns

  • Trauma and stress related to displacement, immigration, prejudice, racism, acculturation

  • Adverse childhood experiences and stressful life events

  • Chronic pain, diabetes, hypertension, cancer, caregiver strain

• Interdisciplinary team: Pharmacy, Behavioral Health, Social Work

• Programmatic courses in addiction medicine, psychiatry, and sexual medicine

• Physician faculty interest in geriatrics, adolescents, women’s health, sports medicine, chronic pain and more!

Teaching/Educational Opportunities

• Video reviews/shadowing of residents

• Resident didactics and noon conferences

• Resident wellbeing curriculum

• Assist with behavioral medicine rotation

Formal Training Opportunities for the Intern

• • UMN Medical School Programmatic Courses

    • Primary Care Psychiatry

https://med.umn.edu/familymedicine/education-training/programmatic-courses/primary-care-psychiatry

• • • Sexual Health

https://med.umn.edu/familymedicine/education-training/programmatic-courses/sexual-medicine

• • Hazelden's Professionals in Residence Program

https://www.hazeldenbettyford.org/education/medical-professional-education/professionals-residence

Scholarship Opportunities

• • 8 hours/week dedicated to scholarship/dissertation writing.

  • The Department of Family Medicine and Community Health at the University of Minnesota is ranked 3rd in the nation for NIH funding and has a robust centralized research department with connections to various local agencies. https://med.umn.edu/familymedicine/research

  • There are 8 residencies across the department with 98 faculty with their own research interests.

  • If the intern chooses to recruit from clinics at the University of Minnesota, a UMN IRB will also need to be completed. There is assistance for this.

A Typical Week