Date program tables last updated: September 18, 2025
Program Disclosures
Applicants to the Duke Health Service Psychology Internship Program must be from university-based scientist-practitioner or clinical scientist doctoral programs in Clinical, Counseling or School Psychology accredited by the American Psychological Association (APA), the Canadian Psychological Association (CPA) or the Psychological Clinical Science Accreditation System (PCSAS).
We will not consider candidates whose programs are not accredited at the time of application, regardless of whether your doctoral program has been approved to participate in the Match.
Applicants must have completed the third year of their graduate program by the beginning of the internship year and must be certified as ready for Internship by their department's Director of Clinical Training. Completion of all academic work and dissertation is preferred.
We require 500 total face-to-face assessments and intervention hours *combined. The distribution of these hours between assessment and intervention depends on the concentration the applicants choose.
Financial and Other Benefit Support for Upcoming Training Year*
| Annual Stipend/Salary for Full-time Interns | $40,000 |
| Annual Stipend/Salary for Part-time Interns | N/A |
| Program provides access to medical insurance for intern? (Note from Duke: Interns also have access to dental and vision benefits) | Yes |
| If access to medical insurance is provided: | |
| Trainee contribution to cost required? | Yes |
| Coverage of family member(s) available? | Yes |
| Coverage of legally married partner available? | Yes |
| Coverage of domestic partner available? | No |
| Hours of Annual Paid Personal Time Off (PTO and/or Vacation) | 15 days |
| Hours of Annual Paid Sick Leave | 12 days |
| In the event of medical conditions and/or family needs that require extended leave, does the program allow reasonable unpaid leave to interns/residents in excess of personal time off and sick leave? | Yes |
| Program note: If circumstances arise requiring the intern to take medical leave or leave for family needs, the intern will need to use all remaining unused paid personal time off first before going on an unpaid absence from the internship. The internship will then be extended in order for the intern to meet the 2,000 hours required for completion of their internship. |
| Other benefits (please describe) | |
| Duke holidays | 8 days |
| Professional days: Conference presentations, continuing education/conferences, research, postdoc or job interviews | 5 days |
| Education fund | $200 |
Note: Programs are not required by the Commission on Accreditation to provide all benefits listed in this table.
Initial Post-Internship Positions
(Provide an Aggregated Tally for the Preceding 3 Cohorts)
| 2021-2024 | |
| Total # of interns who were in the 3 cohorts | 30 |
|
Total # of interns who did not seek employment because they returned to their doctoral program/are completing doctoral degree |
0 |
| Category | Post-doctoral Residency Position (PD) | Employed Position (EP) |
| Academic teaching | 0 | 1 |
| Community mental health center | 0 | 1 |
| Consortium | 0 | 0 |
| University Counseling Center | 0 | 0 |
| Hospital/Medical Center | 23 | 0 |
| Veterans Affairs Health Care System | 2 | 0 |
| Psychiatric facility | 0 | 0 |
| Correctional facility | 0 | 0 |
| Health maintenance organization | 0 | 0 |
| School district/system | 0 | 0 |
| Independent practice setting | 0 | 3 |
| Other | 0 | 0 |
Note: “PD” = Post-doctoral residency position; “EP” = Employed Position. Each individual represented in this table has been counted only one time. For former trainees working in more than one setting, the setting that represents their primary position was selected.