Internships, Fellowships, Residency & Clinical Experiences

Accredited Occupational Therapy Clinical Placements
 
Our Occupational Therapy Services are independently accredited by the Canadian Association of Occupational Therapists. Clinical placements from a wide variety of post-secondary education institutions across Canada are accepted in our adult tertiary psychiatry, neuropsychiatry and geriatric psychiatry program areas.
 
All clinical placements are coordinated through the University of British Columbia’s School of Rehabilitation Sciences.
 
For more details, please e-mail Corinna Oneill.


Accredited Psychology Internships 

BC Mental Health & Addiction Services offers one-year clinical psychology internships intended to prepare students for professional practice with a variety of patient populations:

• forensic clients in in-patient and out-patient settings operated by the Forensic Psychiatric Services Commission;

• adult and geriatric patients requiring tertiary-level psychiatric care at Riverview Hospital (limited rotations until June of 2012 only); and

• beginning in the fall of 2011, children and adolescents through our Specialized Provincial Eating Disorders Program based at BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver.

Accredited by the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA), our program involves supervised clinical experience at one or more of the following settings over the course of the internship year:  Forensic Psychiatric Hospital located in Port Coquitlam; Forensic Regional Out-patient Clinics located in Victoria, Surrey and Vancouver; or our Child and Adolescent Mental Health Program located at BC Children's Hospital in Vancouver.
 
Each fall, up to three interns are selected from a pool of applicants who have completed all course work but a thesis toward a Ph.D. or Psy.D. degree and are enrolled in accredited, academic programs in clinical psychology.
 
Click here to download a copy of our 2011/12 BCMHAS Clinical Psychology Internship Brochure.

For more details, e-mail our internship director, Dr. Martin Zakrzewski.


Fellowship & Residency Opportunities

BC Mental Health & Addiction Services in partnership with the University of British Columbia offers a number of Fellowship opportunities to qualified applicants in a variety of areas.  Please refer to the attached documents for further details.

    Geriatric Psychiatry - One position annually  BCMHASGeriatricPsychiatryFellowship.pdf
    Neuropsychiatry - One position every two years  BCMHASNeuropsychiatryFellowship.pdf
    Clinical Research - One position every two years  BCMHASClinicalResearchFellowship.pdf
    Clinical Pharmacy - One position every two years BCMHASPsychiatricPharmacyResidency.pdf

Clinical Placements in Other Disciplines 

BC Mental Health & Addiction Services accepts clinical placements in a wide variety of disciplines including: medicine, nursing, social work, pharmacy, physical therapy, recreation therapy, music therapy, art therapy, vocational rehabilitation and clinical nutrition.
 
For more details, e-mail our Director of Learning & Development, Paul Anderson.
 
Last Updated: September 2010