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Clinical psychology has been unique among the health care professions in adopting a model of training that requires competency in both research methodology and clinical practice (Strickland, 1988). Clinical psychologists are most often trained in university-based graduate schools and receive a Ph.D. to signify the attainment of journeyman skills in the profession. The Ph.D. requires the completion of a doctoral dissertation. The satisfactory completion of dissertation research requires knowledge in the fundamentals of research: experimental methodology, design, and statistical analysis. A Ph.D. in clinical psychology also requires competency in the basic skills of the profession and additional development of these skills during a one year full-time clinical internship. This model of training, which combines research and clinical training, has come to be known as the scientist-practitioner model.
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Malec, J. (1991). Research in the Medical Setting. In: Sweet, J.J., Rozensky, R.H., Tovian, S.M. (eds) Handbook of Clinical Psychology in Medical Settings. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3792-2_16
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