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Evaluation Quality Assessment and Improvement
The Internship necessarily includes an evaluative component to assess interns development and readiness to enter professional practice, supervisors contributions to interns training, and to inform the ongoing efforts to improve the Internship. Formative assessment about interns functioning is provided on an ongoing basis throughout the Internship during supervision. Written summative evaluations are completed both by supervisors and interns quarterly to ensure that interns are provided with feedback on their progress and that the Internship is achieving its training goals. Evaluations are discussed within supervision. In addition, interns complete time analyses once or twice during the Internship and a series of quality assessment and improvement surveys at the end of the year. In addition, interns keep track weekly of their clinical productivity (i.e., assessments, therapy), and their supervision using logs created for that purpose, and discuss their log entries with their supervisors as a routine part of supervision.
Evaluations are reviewed by the Training Committee at the end of the year to assist with the Internship s ongoing quality management and improvement efforts. The Director of the Internship communicates with the Director of Training of interns doctoral programs about interns progress at mid-year and at the end of the internship. Interns and supervisors can meet as a group during the year to discuss interns perceptions of the program and to clarify expectations and policies at the request of interns or at the initiation of the Training Committee of Intern Advocate. Policies are reviewed on an ongoing basis and outlined in greater detail in the Internship Handbook. The Internship Handbook is available for applicants to inspect at the time of interviews and is distributed during the Internship orientation at the beginning of the internship year. The Minnesota Supervisory Inventory and other materials developed at this internship pertaining to QAI and administering psychology training programs have been used at more than fifty internships around the country through Quality Assessment and Improvement Systems.
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