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Clinical Training Opportunities: Masters Practicum & Doctoral Internship

The Department of Family Medicine at the University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC) sponsors both a Masters practicum and Doctoral level internship in Medical Family Therapy. These 12 month, intensive, experiences promote training in medical family therapy and collaborative health care models, and prepare MFTs to implement the biopsychosocial-family systems model in the clinical setting.

The clinical experiences take place primarily in one of the six Family Medicine outpatient clinics associated with the Department of Family Medicine. Other training opportunities take place within the University Hospital (e.g., Family Practice inpatient team) and other UNMC programs (e.g., pain program, hospice service). The experiences are designed to be collaborative, involving patients and their families, as well as multiple disciplines. The patient populations represented in these clinics are fairly diverse in socio-economic, racial/ethnic, and geographic characteristics. The presenting problems are also diverse, ranging from typical mental health concerns to problems coping with acute and chronic medical illness. The faculty includes Licensed Mental Health Professionals who are also AAMFT Clinical Members and Approved Supervisors, Board Certified Family Physicians, and other Allied Health Care Professionals (pharmacy, nutrition, psychology, psychiatry, etc).

Trainees may also take advantage of opportunities for research. It is not unusual for trainees to complete thesis and dissertation projects during their tenure in the Department. Some funding is available. Current graduate students who are interested in the practicum/ internship program should contact Dr. Prest by May 1. If selected, trainees will begin in July or August (exact date is negotiable).

Post Degree Certificate Training Program in Medical Family Therapy (MedFT)

The MedFT program is a joint venture between the Marriage and Family Therapy Program in the Department of Child, Youth and Family Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and UNMC's Department of Family Medicine. Any professional who is interested in advanced training in Medical Family Therapy is invited to apply. The program is open to mental health professionals or graduate students, nurses, physicians, and allied health professionals. Interns may also take advantage of the on-site post-degree training program in medical family therapy (See link to Curriculum below). The post-degree program of study is guided by the curriculum standards established by the Commission on Accreditation for Marriage and Family Therapy Education (COAMFTE). The background courses may be taken at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln or in the School of Social Work at the University of Nebraska at Omaha. Courses specifically pertaining to medical family therapy theory and practice, as well as supervised clinical practica, are offered at UNMC.

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