The Miami Children's Hospital Psychology Internship Program (PIP) offers a pre-doctoral clinical psychology internship program with an emphasis in the areas of pediatric health psychology, child and adolescence clinical psychology, and clinical neuropsychology.
MCH's PIP was created by the merger of two previous internship programs, the Department of Neurology's Pediatric Behavioral Medicine Internship Program and the Department of Psychiatry's Internship Program. Both were designed to meet the American Psychological Association criteria for accredited internship programs and held independent membership in the Association of Psychology and Post-Doctoral Internship Centers (APPIC). The Department of Psychiatry Internship Program was granted APPIC membership in 1982 and the Pediatric Behavioral Medicine Program in 1996. The two programs allied in 1999 and joint APPIC membership was obtained in 2001. Program unification was effected to improve psychological service delivery throughout the hospital and enhance the quality of training provided to interns while at the same time preserving the unique nature of the individual training areas and specialized clinical services. The integration of the two programs has allowed for enhanced breath of training through increased exposure to a variety of service delivery options. Trainee's exposure to a range of theoretical and professional orientations has also been expanded.