On Campus Clinical Experiences

Our on-campus clinical opportunities are exceptionally rich and varied. Our thriving on-campus clinic offers innovative services for clients from birth to senescence with a wide variety of diagnoses in a variety of service models (individual, group, intensive).

Students spend their first clinical year and one quarter of their second year in our campus clinic. Our clinical faculty provide the support budding clinicians need to develop.  The clinical curriculum allows for the continuum of supervision, including support from novice to intermediate students and side-by-side service provision (1:1:1) for many treatment sessions.

Every quarter that students are on campus, they engage in various clinical experiences, learning and connecting with a clinical supervisor and second-year students. Students have the opportunity to engage in unique clinical experiences across their first year to gain a wide range of perspectives and exposure to various content areas.

Externships

Students complete two full-time externship placements.  Each placement is one quarter (11 weeks) in duration. One externship placement is in a school, and the other externship is typically in a medically based facility or private practice (based on the student’s area of clinical interest). Our externships benefit from all of the resources the greater Chicagoland has to offer and span many types of medical sites, clinics, and other placements.

Out-of-state options for the medically based/private practice externships are available for students who prefer to explore other geographic regions