| Abstract: | Internship supervisors evaluated the preinternship preparation of 67 PsyD students and 228 PhD students in regard to several core clinical skills and general dimensions of professional competence. In contrast with previous studies that suggested serious dissatisfaction among supervisors with the general quality of preinternship training, most interns evaluated individually in this study were considered at least adequately prepared for most kinds of clinical work. Except for slight superiority of PsyD students in "sensitivity" and of PhD students in "scientific attitude," there were no reliable differences between interns from practitioner programs and those from scientist-practitioner programs. For future evaluation research, the need to move beyond ratings to performance-based measures of competence is imperative. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
