Application Process and Requirements

• The AAPI Online application
  • List within your application to our site which tracks you are interested in being considered. As you read our materials, you will see that each funded specialty track position results in interns receiving specialty training in a specific area for at least half of their time. Applicants are welcome to express interest in as many or as few positions as they would like. 
• Graduate School Transcripts
• Cover Letter
  • Within your cover letter, please address which tracks you are interested in being considered. 
• CV
• 3 Letters of Recommendation
• Please note: No additional supplemental application materials (e.g., report examples) are required for the Mailman Center for Child Development.

A candidate must be enrolled as an advanced graduate student in a clinical, school, or counseling psychology program approved (or provisionally approved) by the American Psychological Association. All candidates should have a substantial amount of prior practicum supervision and other clinical experience. Applicants with strong clinical child, pediatric, or assessment backgrounds are preferred. Applicants must pass all legal background checks and drug screening to be employed by the University of Miami. 

Interviews are a requirement for selection. The primary reason for an interview is to allow both the internship faculty and you to evaluate the degree to which the Mailman Center internship is a good fit for you. We are committed to "happy interns," and believe that a personal interview will help to maximize the fit between the intern and our program. 

All Open House Interview dates will be virtual. No in-person interviews will be offered.

We hold three Open House interview days (by invitation) in early January for this purpose. During these Open Houses potential interns have the opportunity for a general orientation to the program, as well as personal interviews with internship faculty and current interns. 

The tentative dates for this year's open houses are:

2025

• Thursday, January 9th
• Tuesday, January 14th
  
• Wednesday, January 22nd
  

Applications will be reviewed by members of the Internship Selection Committee and invitations to attend one of three Open House. Interviews will be extended no later than December 15th. In an effort to maximize the Open House experience for all involved, only those applicants for whom this program appears a good fit will be invited to attend the virtual Open House.

Because our faculty are all actively involved in clinical service, teaching, and/or research commitments, we are forced to limit interviews to these three virtual Open House dates. Therefore, except in the most extreme circumstances, we are unable to schedule individual interviews on other dates.

This internship site agrees to abide by the APPIC policy that no person at this training facility will solicit, accept or use any ranking-related information from any intern applicant. To review APPIC Policies go to: http://www.appic.org.

Interns are selected according to the procedures set forth by APPIC.  Written confirmation of all acceptances is required.

The internship program abides by the University of Miami’s policy as an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. The University of Miami is committed to a culture of belonging and our values of diversity, integrity, responsibility, excellence, compassion, and teamwork.

We are committed to strengthening the intellectual, cultural and economic life of the communities of South Florida and the world by fostering respect for the differences among people, the nurturing of curiosity, the insistence upon high standards of thought, study, communication, and skills.

The University of Miami, the Mailman Center for Child Development, and the Division of Pediatric and Child Clinical Psychology have each made a commitment to champion racial and social equity. The University of Miami Task Force on Racial Justice provides advisement and recommendations for the entire university. The Mailman Center has also has a Social Equity Task Force that is comprised of faculty, staff, and trainees. The task force conducts employee and patient surveys to better understand needed areas of growth as it relates to racial and social equity within clinical, research, training, and community engagement domains. The Mailman task force provides recommendations to the Mailman Center executive team for improving equity within the workplace and within clinical and community care.