Internships

A full time postdoctoral position in the area of Forensic mental health (mental health, justice and safety). The fellowship is for 12 months with a possible second year appointment and provides a research and academic training.

Description
The postdoctoral fellow will lead and participate in the development of a series of scientific papers on trajectories of individuals receiving forensic mental health services as well as coordinate research activities and supervise research assistants and students.
The goal is to expand and enrich the candidate’s knowledge of forensic mental health and the scientific method, and to extend the candidate’s skills in conceptualizing and executing statistical analyses and writing manuscripts for publication in high impact scientific journals.

Qualifications
Applicants must have a recent Ph.D. in a related discipline (e.g., Psychology, Psychiatry, Epidemiology, Sociology, Criminology, etc.), have a demonstrated record of experience in advanced quantitative statistical methods. Applicants must have demonstrated ability in preparing and publishing research papers. The applicant must be interested in pursuing a career that focuses broadly on mental health, antisocial behaviour, justice safety, mental health and the law.

Environment
The position is to be held at the Institut national de psychiatrie légale Philippe-Pinel research Center and the Department of Psychiatry & Addictions of the Université de Montréal. It is funded through a CIHR operating grant and a bursary from the Centre international de criminologie comparée. Supervision will be ensured by Professor Anne Crocker.
The postdoctoral fellow will be integrated into the national team and be offered the necessary supervision to develop all of the abilities necessary to become an independent scientist. Teaching and student (co)supervision opportunities will also be offered.

We are seeking to fill the position as soon as possible.

Application deadline: February 28th 2021.

To apply, please send to Dr Anne Crocker: anne.crocker@umontreal.ca

• Curriculum Vitae
• Cover letter detailing research interests, experience and career goals
• Two letters of recommendations
• Two manuscripts

The Institut welcomes students via the Université de Montréal.

Topics covered in internships:

• Evaluations based on risk factors for violence
• Writing reports documenting the presence of risk factors for violence
• Clinical intervention (individual and in groups) to help reduce risk factors for violence
• The development, update, and monitoring of social-reintegration projects for hospitalized patients
• Monitoring the progression of risk factors in community rehabilitation

 
Activities offered during internships:

• Individual interviews
• Meetings with families or in the presence of key individuals
• Producing various reports
• Presenting to clinical committees (Exit Committee, Committee for Psychiatry-Justice Network Access)
• Implementing an activity in the clinical setting

Treatment programs offering internships:

• Internal treatment programs for psychotic patients
• Internal program for adolescents
• Internal programs for admission/readmission/expertise
• Internal transition program
• External program for adult psychiatry
• External program for adolescent sexual offenders
• External program for adult sexual offenders

Internship Supervisor

Valérie Préseault

Email: valerie.preseault@umontreal.ca

Université de Montréal

To apply for a Master’s level internship in criminology at the Institut, students must present their request to the internship supervisor at the Université de Montréal. Selected candidates will be invited to interview with the head of the Criminology Department and potential supervisors.

In their request, students must specify what their academic or scientific interests are, including:

• goal of internship;
• previous internship or volunteer experience with offenders or individuals with mental-health issues;
• understanding the tools to evaluate risk factors for violence (HCR-20, PCL-R, SVR-20, SARA, etc.)

Topics covered in internships:

• Evaluations based on risk factors for violence;
• Writing reports documenting the presence of risk factors for violence;
• Clinical intervention (individual and in groups) that help reduce risk factors for violence;
• The development, update, and monitoring of social-reintegration projects for hospitalized patients;
• Monitoring the progression of risk factors in community rehabilitation.

Activities offered during internships:

• Individual interviews;
• Meetings with families or in the presence of key individuals;
• Producing various reports;
• Presenting to clinical committees (Exit Committee, Committee for Psychiatry-Justice Network Access);
• Implementing an activity within the clinical setting.

Treatment programs offering internships:

• Internal treatment programs;
• Internal program for adolescents;
• Internal programs for admission/readmission/expertise;
• Internal transition program;
• External program for adult psychiatry;
• External program for adolescent sexual offenders;
• External program for adult sexual offenders.

Internship Supervisor

Valérie Préseault

Email: valerie.preseault@umontreal.ca

Université de Montréal

Optional internship in legal psychiatry

Medical clerkship students who have done an internship in general psychiatry can participate in an optional forensics internship at the Institut national de psychiatrie légale Philippe-Pinel.

General educational goals:

• Further knowledge from general psychiatry internship, specifically when it comes to psychosis and personality disorders.
• Acquire new psychiatry knowledge (judiciary process, medical-legal expertise).
• Participate in evaluating patients presenting with dangerousness.
• Participate in the creation of treatment plans for patients with complex issues in a legal context.

Content description:

Integration within a multidisciplinary team in an internal care unit and/or an evaluation clinic as well as monitoring external patients. In general, this involves patients presenting with dangerousness linked to their mental disorder or legal situation who require expertise and specialized clinical monitoring.

Participation in forensic psychiatry clinic activities, scientific presentations, educational activities (seminars, reading clubs), and the dangerousness clinic.

Evaluation criteria:

Based on criteria in the optional internship evaluation form.

Prerequisites:

Students must have completed an internship in general psychiatry.

• Schedule: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
• Length: 2 to 4 weeks

Director

Michel Filion, MD, Forensic Psychiatrist

Medical Clerkship Coordinator

Institut national de psychiatrie légale Philippe-Pinel

The Institut national de psychiatrie légale Philippe-Pinel’s Clinical Pharmacy Department is affiliated with the Université de Montréal’s Faculty of Pharmacy. Our facility takes on pharmacy interns every year, under the supervision of pharmacist clinicians who work with patients.

Requests must be submitted directly via the Université de Montréal.

The Institut national de psychiatrie légale Philippe-Pinel welcomes interns in their third year of specialized education and/or their Bachelor’s of Psychoeducation. Students studying for their Master’s of Psychoeducation can also do their internship here.

Activities offered during internships:

Interventions in shared situations and direct participatory observation with clientele.

Internship students can also:

• organize and lead rehabilitation activities

• accompany patients specifically: clinical assessment, follow-up meetings, evaluation, preparing an intervention plan, individualized interventions, etc.

• take part in interdisciplinary clinic meetings

The Institut advocates for a collaborative approach and partnership with patients as well as support that centres on the patient’s experience and rehabilitation process.

Type of clientele:

Adult mixed clientele and adolescent clientele with mental-health disorders who present with a risk of violent behaviour.

Internship coordination supervisor

Clinical activity specialist/DSI-SM psychoeducator

Phone: 514-648-8461, ext. 1324

Internship requests must originate from the educational institution and not the student.

The Psychology Department reports to the Professional Services Directorate, and comprises an internal manager, external manager, and some 20 psychologists. These psychologists are allocated to different healthcare programs, either in internal or external units or a combination of the two. All key theoretical orientations are represented, including neuropsychology.

The Psychology Department provides evaluation services and treatment for clientele who generally suffer from serious mental illness and issues with violence. These also frequently present with comorbid conditions, notably personality disorders (group B), issues related to substance abuse, cognitive limitations, depressive and anxious symptomology, or neurological disorders.

Psychologists lead individual and group therapy sessions as well as other specialized therapeutic activities. In collaboration with criminologists, they also evaluate risks of violence using specialized tools. Some psychologists and neuropsychologists contribute to the complex expertise process by performing in-depth psychological and/or neuropsychological evaluations.

Psychologists take part in the Department’s monthly administrative and clinical meetings, where subjects touch on professional psychology practice at hospitals in the Québec healthcare network as well as at our own psychiatric hospital (including: clinical practice, evaluation, rules of practice, code of ethics, training and professional development, supervision, internships, evaluation tools, and development of the profession).

Some psychologists are involved in teaching assignments and supervision, while others participate in work committees or other projects in the department or at the hospital.

The department offers observation internships for students at the Bachelor level and clinical internships in psychology and neuropsychology for students completing their Doctorate.

See the various programs available, below:

• Psychology and Neuropsychology Internship for Students from a Québec University
• Advanced Internship for Foreign Psychologists
• Internship for Foreign Students

You must select the program you wish to work in. You can then select from the detailed list of programs outlined in the 2020-2021 Internship program (French only).

Note that you must choose between an adult or adolescent clientele, as it is not permitted to work with both as part of the available internships and work experience placements.

If you have any questions, please consult our FAQ section.

Legal issues have become part and parcel of contemporary psychiatry. All future psychiatrists must be prepared to face this particular aspect of their professional career. So why not undertake an internship at the Institut national en psychiatrie légale Philippe-Pinel?

Our specialized facility enjoys an international reputation, making it the ideal place for you to undergo training based on your interests in any of the following areas:

• Risk of violence expertise, evaluation, and management
• Rehabilitation of patients with a risk of violence
• Forensic child psychiatry (adolescents)
• Evaluation and treatment of sexually deviant behaviours (part-time internship)

The entire faculty at the Institut national de psychiatrie légale Philippe-Pinel wishes to thank you for your interest in forensic psychiatry, and hope to see you studying with us soon.

Residencies available in forensic psychiatry:

Obligatory

• Rehabilitation 

Optional

• Rehabilitation 

• Risk of violence expertise, evaluation, and management
• Forensic child psychiatry (adolescents)
• Evaluation and treatment of sexually deviant behaviours (part-time internship) 

For all new internship requests, please complete the request form and send it to:

Local Education Coordinator

Dr. Catherine Chartrand

514-648-8461, ext. 1585

We are proud to offer the only French-language forensic psychiatry training in North America.

This program takes place mainly at the Institut national de psychiatrie légale Philippe-Pinel, with the opportunity to take on external internships for a period of up to three months.

Forensic psychiatry is a subspecialty of psychiatry where scientific and medical expertise are used within a judicial framework to resolve civil order, penal, correctional, or legislative issues.

Forensic psychiatrists are also specialized in evaluating and treating specific populations such as young offenders, sexual offenders, and violent offenders.

• The forensic psychiatry residency program’s educational content includes:
  obligatory internships (expertise, risk of violence evaluation and management, treatment/rehabilitation)
• optional internships (forensic child and adolescent psychiatry, correctional psychiatry, evaluation and treatment of sexually deviant behaviour)
• civil forensic psychiatry
• forensic psychiatry research (weekly academic half-day, structure and process of the judicial system, criminal law, civil law, risk of violence evaluation and management, specific crimes)
• paraphilia and sexual deviance
• forensic child and adolescent psychiatry (correctional psychiatry)
• other pedagogical activities (classes on PCL-R, tools to evaluate risk of violence, tools to evaluate risk of sexual recidivism)

Subspecialty Program Director

Dr. Jocelyne Brault
514-648-8461, ext. 1585

Please consult the Université de Montréal forensic psychiatry subspecialty program to learn more about the program and how to apply.

Please note that, for the 2020-2021 year, we are not offering internships for nursing at the college level.

The Department of nursing and multidisciplinary services at the Institut national de psychiatrie légale Philippe-Pinel welcomes college- and university-level nursing students for the following internships:

• Mental health and psychiatry for adults and adolescents (DEC, Bachelor’s, and DEC-BAC)

• Integration to the nursing profession
• Specialization in medical-legal nursing in partnership with the Université de Montréal for an internship with employment opportunity

• Intensive care psychiatry
• Advanced nursing practice in mental health and psychiatry (graduate studies)

Description

The Institut provides a stimulating learning environment for nurses in training. Internships take place in a multidisciplinary context with forensic psychiatry clientele who require care within a maximum-security facility. Students will be introduced to forensic psychiatry through patients with complex mental health issues.

Internships are provided as a preceptorship with a member of the nursing staff from one of the Institut’s units, enabling students to follow along and participate in all nursing activities.

Activities offered during internships:

• Perform almost all nursing tasks with supervision.

• Participate in interdisciplinary meetings with their care unit.

• Participate in different activities with patients.

• Access to professionals on the unit’s interdisciplinary team: criminologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, specialized educators, psychoeducators, clinical pharmacists, clinical nutritionists, etc.).

• Participate in noon conferences, reading clubs for nurses, and group meetings.

• Access Documentation Centre services.

• Get support from the unity’s nursing advisor to further develop nursing skills.

• Opportunity to be hired as a CÉPI. 

Internship conditions

• Internships are offered as part of an agreement between the Institut and the teaching institution.

• All interns must be 18 or older at the time the internship begins.

• The Institut can accept up to 6 students at a time.

• The internship pairs each intern with a preceptor nurse.

• The internship can take place during the day or at night, depending on the availability of nursing staff.

• The internship schedule may include weekends in order to be completed.

• The internship will take place in the time period determined by the learning establishments.
• The professor will monitor the internship based on students’ learning needs.

• A space can be made available to hold follow-up meetings.

• The internship begins with a welcome day, which may or may not be calculated as part of the internship hours, at the learning institute’s discretion.

• Interns are subject to the same policies, procedures, and safety regulations as all Institut personnel.

Nursing Internship Coordinator

Nursing Advisor

514-648-8461, ext. 1364

The Department of nursing and multidisciplinary services at the Institut national de psychiatrie légale Philippe-Pinel welcomes college- and university-level nursing students for the following internships :

• Mental health and psychiatry for adults and adolescents (DEC, Bachelor’s, and DEC-BAC)

Integration to the nursing profession
Specialization in medical-legal nursing in partnership with the Université de Montréal for an internship with employment opportunity

Intensive care psychiatry
Advanced nursing practice in mental health and psychiatry (graduate studies)

Description

The Institut provides a stimulating learning environment for nurses in training. Internships take place in a multidisciplinary context with forensic psychiatry clientele who require care within a maximum-security facility. Students will be introduced to forensic psychiatry through patients with complex mental health issues.

Internships are provided as a preceptorship with a member of the nursing staff from one of the Institut’s units, enabling students to follow along and participate in all nursing activities.

Activities offered during internships :

• Perform almost all nursing tasks with supervision.
• Participate in interdisciplinary meetings with their care unit.
• Participate in different activities with patients.
• Access to professionals on the unit’s interdisciplinary team: criminologists, psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, specialized educators, psychoeducators, clinical pharmacists, clinical nutritionists, etc.).
• Participate in noon conferences, reading clubs for nurses, and group meetings.
• Access Documentation Centre services.
• Get support from the unity’s nursing advisor to further develop nursing skills.
• Opportunity to be hired as a CÉPI.

Internship conditions

• Requests for internship are granted based on each unit’s ability to support interns.

Internships are offered as part of an agreement between the Institut and the teaching institution.

These internships are practical in nature and target specific learning in accordance with the program the intern is enrolled in.

The internship begins with a welcome day, which may or may not be calculated as part of the internship hours, at the learning institute’s discretion.

The internship pairs each intern with a preceptor nurse.

Interns must follow their preceptor nurse’s schedule (days, nights, weekends).

The internship will take place in the time period determined by the learning establishment.

Interns are subject to the same policies, procedures, and safety regulations as all Institut personnel.

Nursing Sciences Internship Coordinator

Nursing Advisor

514-648-8491, ext. 1328

The Institut national de psychiatrie légale Philippe-Pinel’s food services department welcomes interns in Dietician studies and Bachelor’s of Nutrition (level 3 and 4 only). These internships enable students to become familiar with managing food services.

Contact Person

Valérie Marcoux
Manager of Food Service Activities – interim

All students who wish to apply for an internship in food services at the Institut must do so via the person responsible for internships at their learning institution.