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Annu Rev Clin Psychol. 2014;10:53-83. doi: 10.1146/annurev-clinpsy-032813-153737. Epub 2013 Dec 2.
The internship is an essential part of doctoral training in professional psychology. Most students access internships through the annual match sponsored by the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC). For two decades the match has seen an increasing shortfall of internship positions relative to applicants, exceeding 650 unmatched clinical students as of 2013. Efforts to solve this problem have not met appreciable success. This review discusses the structure of the internship placement process, including and beyond the APPIC match, and identifies the reasons for the failed efforts, which lie principally in the varied standards for an acceptable internship among doctoral programs. Efforts to establish a common standard and the need for a governance structure to enforce whatever standard is agreed upon are discussed. Projections for the future of the placement process and the imbalance are sketched, and links to other issues in the field are briefly reviewed.
实习是专业心理学博士培训的重要组成部分。大多数学生通过心理学博士后和实习中心协会（APPIC）赞助的年度匹配来获得实习机会。二十年来，相对于申请人而言，实习岗位的短缺一直在增加，截至 2013 年，超过 650 名临床学生未得到匹配。解决这个问题的努力并没有取得显著的成功。这篇综述讨论了实习安置过程的结构，包括 APPIC 匹配以及其他方面，并确定了失败的原因，主要在于博士课程中对于可接受实习的标准存在差异。讨论了建立共同标准和需要一个治理结构来执行所达成的任何标准的努力。还描绘了未来的安置过程和不平衡的预测，并简要回顾了该领域的其他问题。
