This major rotation of the psychology internship program provides interns with opportunities to learn aspects of working as a psychologist in primary care settings. The primary practice site serves patients of all ages, including adults, children, infants, pregnant women and seniors. The clinic patients are from a variety of ethnic, religious and socio-economic backgrounds and we consider this diversity to be one of our greatest strengths as a training site for multiple health care disciplines. Behavioral health is an integral part of the practice.
As a part of their time with the general integrated care training experience, interns would also spend focused time addressing the needs of the family medicine population that is struggling with opioid use disorder, chronic pain, or is in need of medication assisted treatment. This work may involve delivering evidence-based individual or group treatment to individuals with chronic pain or receiving chronic opioid therapy (COT), participating as a part of an interdisciplinary team member in complex case conferences involving patients receiving COT, or supporting quality improvement or program evaluation efforts to assess the efficacy of these programs.
Adding NEW For the 2024-2025 training year:
We also offer psychology interns the opportunity to strengthen their clinical supervision skills. They are matched with practicum / extern students whom they meet with regularly to provide case consultation for primary care behavioral health patients during the later part of their training year. The clinic will be moving late 2023 to a brand new location in Louisville, CO. This welcome change will provide an opportunity for the clinic to expand, adding 2.5 medical providers including a new Medical Director.
Louisville is a great place to live and to work. The clinic is very close to Rte 36. It is 7.5 miles from CU Boulder and 22 miles from CU Denver. Below is a description of the town:
The town of Louisville was founded by miners, but today it is often recognized for its livability. Many things contribute to this including 1,700 acres of open space, dozens of great eateries, a thriving arts scene, great schools, wonderful neighborhoods, and a diverse mix of local businesses. Louisville was named among the best places to live by Money Magazine, 10 Best Towns for Families in the U.S. by Family Circle Magazine, Safest Places to Live by Elite Personal Finance, Best Cities to Live in 麻豆传媒高清 by ChamberofCommerce.org, and Most Budget-Friendly Cities for Renters by LendEUD.
Our multidisciplinary teams include physicians, psychologists, care managers, pharmacists, social work, and tele-psychiatry consultants. There are many opportunities for psychology interns to work collaboratively on a multidisciplinary team.
The overarching goal of the primary care psychology major rotation is to train psychologists to provide a full range of clinical primary care psychology services as key members of multi-disciplinary healthcare teams, develop an array of interprofessional competencies, and become leaders in this growing area of healthcare. Specific goals include developing core competencies of primary care psychology such as providing consultations to patients and providers, participating in multidisciplinary care teams, providing brief individual therapy services, becoming skilled with warm hand offs and co-consultations, providing diagnostic clarification and brief assessment, providing in-patient consultation, providing group interventions, and assisting with population-based care initiatives. We provide many opportunities for interns to become familiar with the varied roles that psychologists can have in medical teams and participate with team member in myriad ways to improve care for patients and populations.
Interns will work collaboratively with family medicine residents and attending providers to best care for patients during in-patient hospitalizations. In particular, services such as mental health screening, brief mental health interventions, health behavior change interventions, family meetings, and discharge plans are engaged effectively in this team format. Interns will observe these interactions, act independently, and receive supervision during this learning experience.
Interns will work collaboratively with family medicine residents and attending providers to best care for patients during in-patient hospitalizations. In particular, services such as mental health screening, brief mental health interventions, health behavior change interventions, family meetings, and discharge plans are engaged effectively in this team format. Interns will observe these interactions, act independently, and receive supervision during this learning experience.
Interns will engage in the provision of primary care psychology services in collaboration with attending psychologists, family physicians, psychiatrists, care managers, psychiatric nurse practitioners, physician assistants, RN’s, MAs, social workers, medical students, residents, graduate psychology students, and pharmacy students.
These services may include:
Interns will contribute to the education and training of medical trainees via:
Interns may potentially participate in ongoing research and/or program development in community-based medicine with options including:
Interns will master a primary care psychology curriculum through:
Our patient population includes insured and underinsured patients from a large variety of ethnic and socio-economic backgrounds.
The rotation supervisors are well versed in evidence-based approaches to interventions in primary care, medical specialty, and traditional mental health settings. Trainees can expect to gain exposure to and expertise in behavioral activation, cognitive behavioral therapy, dialectical behavior therapy, mindfulness-based cognitive therapy, acceptance and commitment therapy, and health behavior change assessment and intervention.
Interns will receive a minimum of 3 hours of supervision per week.
*Please note that beginning in December 2023, this clinic’s location will change to :
CU Medicine Family Medicine - Louisville
361 Century Place,Suite 120
Louisville, CO 80027
CU Anschutz
Academic Office One
12631 East 17th Avenue
Box F496
Aurora, CO 80045
303-724-9700