Anne Wilson: Hi everyone, I hope you're doing well. My name is Anne Wilson, and I completed my 
internship at Ohio State in the adult psychopathology track in 2019. After internship, I 
completed my post-doc at the University of California, Davis Medical Center in their Early 
Psychosis Program. Now, I'm back at Ohio State and I'm the director of the Psychological 
Services Center in the Department of Psychology.

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Anne Wilson is seated in a room wearing a grey sweater. Multiple degrees are hanging from the walls.]

So, I wanted to speak with you about my experience as an intern at Ohio State. I know that 
conducting interviews virtually can make it kinda difficult to get a sense of what it's like 
to be an intern in the program. And so, I hope that this video can give you a sense of some of 
the intangible things that make Ohio State a great internship program, beyond the excellent 
training opportunities that you will read about and hear more about throughout the interview 
day.

So the first thing that I would like to speak to is the culture and the atmosphere of the 
program. There's very much a warm, friendly Midwestern culture and atmosphere, both within 
the program and then also in the department and across the greater Columbus community as well. 
So, I really loved how the program was structured to help you to build a sense of community 
with your fellow interns.

On Wednesdays, you have all day with your fellow interns in various didactics, professional 
development seminars, and, twice a month, in the self-care and resiliency group. So I know 
that moving to another state and a new city can be really challenging. And so I think that 
having the program set up to have you together with your internship cohort for one full day 
a week can really help to build those connections and friendships, so that you get the support 
that you need.

One unique aspect of the program that I mentioned was the self-care and resiliency group. This 
was one of the highlights of my internship experience. Dr. Saldano, who runs the group, is just 
so lovely and warm and supportive. And this was a really great way to get support from your 
fellow interns, to talk about your experience in a safe and warm environment.

The other notable thing about the internship is really the work-life balance. I know that 
this can differ across tracks and rotations, but as an intern, I felt that the workload was 
very manageable. My supervisors would check in about how my workload was, and this really 
helped me to establish a good work-life balance.

And this was really a big contrast to graduate school, and I think the supervisors really 
helped to model work-life balance, which then I've carried with me throughout postdoc and 
the rest of my career. Just one of the training opportunities that I did want to highlight.
I know there are many excellent training opportunities, but one that's really unique to the 
program is the opportunity to supervise psychiatry residents as they're learning CBT.

Gaining supervision experience is something that not a lot of internship programs have to 
offer. And in my role now, I supervise second-year graduate students, so gaining that 
supervision experience on internship was very valuable. But even if you don't have interest 
in supervising in the future, gaining the experience with supervising really helped me to 
strengthen my CBT skills and helped me in my clinical practice as well.