many of my fellow residents would be seeing 5 therapy patients a week in addition to their regular clinical duties. From what I understand the psychology students see less. They are busy doing a group (which we also had to do for a year), doing neuropsych, doing psychological testing, etc.
I had always thought that they did more and was surprised to learn that they did less.
Not every psychiatry dept. is the same. Some probably require little or none. I'm not sure what the minimum is, but I know our program is above the minimum. We were also required to have supervision for therapy, including one year from a psychoanalyst.
And the chairman of our dept. is a molecular biologist.
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