Ongoing Guidance, Evaluation and Mentorship

Track directors meet with fellows as a group and individually at least quarterly to discuss the fellows' training experiences and provide guidance and mentorship related to professional development. At the beginning of the fellowship year, each fellow works with their primary supervisor and the track director to develop an individualized learning plan, which is reviewed quarterly to ensure that the fellow's training experiences are consistent with their professional development goals. The Chief Fellow is also available to meet with fellows to provide guidance and mentorship.

In addition to ongoing feedback from supervisors, fellows receive written evaluation of their performance four times per year. A composite written evaluation is sent to each fellow's graduate program director of training at mid-year and at the conclusion of the fellowship.

Our program values feedback from fellows and uses that feedback to continually improve the quality of our training. As such, we have several mechanisms for fellows to provide feedback, including group and individual meetings with the track director and training director and surveys eliciting feedback about seminar instructors. Fellows also complete evaluations of their supervisors twice a year and about the training program at the conclusion of the fellowship year, and that feedback is provided to supervisors after the fellows leave the training program. The Chief Fellow solicits feedback from fellows on a monthly basis and presents that feedback anonymously at the monthly Training Committee meeting so that it can be addressed in a timely fashion. The Chief Fellow also meets with the fellows at the end of the year to obtain their feedback about multiple aspects of the training program and then shares that aggregated and anonymous feedback with the Training Committee. Fellow graduates are contacted one year and 2-3 years following completion of their Fellowship to provide feedback on the effectiveness of the fellowship training program and their effective functioning as psychologists.