University of Mississippi Medical Center Psychology Internship Training Program

2027-2028 Training Year

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Accreditation Status:

The UMMC Internship (Residency) Program is accredited by the Commission on Accreditation of the American Psychological Association. The next site visit is scheduled for 2028.

The Commission can be contacted at:

American Psychological Association
750 First St., NE, Washington, DC 20002
Phone: (202) 336-5979
E-mail: apaacred@apa.org
Web: www.apa.org/ed/accreditation

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Program Overview and Structure:

The University of Mississippi Medical Center Psychology Internship (Residency) Training Program is housed in the Division of Psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at the University of Mississippi Medical Center (UMMC). Versions of the program have been accredited by the American Psychological Association since its inception in 1964. The Program was previously accredited as a consortium with the local VA, however, on July 1, 2017 began operating as an independent program. In Spring 2018 the UMMC Psychology Internship Program underwent an accreditation site visit to seek accreditation as an independent internship training program. The UMMC Internship Training Program was granted full accreditation status as an independent program by the Commission on Accreditation of the American Psychological Association. The Program's next accreditation review is scheduled for 2028.

The UMMC Internship Program offers a wide variety of clinical and research opportunities during the internship year, which are consistent with the Program's training goals for interns. Although clinical training activities play a paramount role in our program, interns are expected to actively maintain involvement in research. Continuing education seminars, grant writing seminar, dissemination and implementation curriculum and professional leadership development didactics comprise an additional important component of training.

Training Goals/Objectives for Interns:

Goal #1 – Interns will be competent in assessment, intervention, supervision and consultation skills.

Objective: By the end of the training year, psychology interns will be competent in assessment, intervention, supervision and consultation skills as evidenced by at least high intermediate skill (requiring minimal supervision) in the following domains by the end of the internship year:

• Assessment
• Intervention
• Supervision
• Consultation and Interprofessional Skills

Goal # 2 – Interns will be skilled in the interface between science and practice.

Objective: Production of psychology interns who will be skilled in the interface between science and practice by applying scientific knowledge to the clinical setting, being educated consumers of empirical research and participating in active research projects and/or program evaluation as evidenced by demonstration of at least high intermediate skill (requiring minimal supervision) in the following domain by the end of the internship year:

• Research

Goal #3 – Interns will be competent in individual and cultural differences.

Objective: By the end of the training year, psychology interns will demonstrate competencies including, but not limited to, age, disability, ethnicity, gender, gender identity, language, national origin, race, religion, culture, sexual orientation and socioeconomic status as evidenced by demonstration of at least high intermediate skills (requiring minimal supervision) in the following domain by the end of the internship year:

• Individual and Cultural Differences

Goal #4 – Interns will display professional and ethical behavior.

Objective: By the end of the training year, psychology interns will demonstrate professional and ethical behavior. Interns will adapt professional behavior in a manner that is sensitive and appropriate to the needs of various clients, colleagues and organizations as evidenced by at least high intermediate skill (requiring minimal supervision) in the following domains by the end of the internship year:

• Professional Values, Attitudes and Behaviors
• Ethical and Legal Standards

Goal #5 – Interns will be competent in teaching and expressive skills

Objective: Production of psychology interns who by the end of the training year will demonstrate knowledge of didactic learning strategies, be able to apply teaching methods to multiple settings and have verbal, nonverbal and written communications that are informative, articulate, succinct, well-integrated and demonstrate thorough grasp of professional language and concepts as evidenced by at least high intermediate skill (requiring minimal supervision) in the following domain by the end of the internship year:

• Communication and Interpersonal Skills

In addition to these general competencies, the Program provides opportunities to develop specialized competencies (e.g., motivational interviewing, dissemination, etc.) through our various training rotations and curricular offerings.

Training Model:

The UMMC Training Program endorses a cognitive-behavioral orientation within a scientist-practitioner model. Interest in and experience with, this approach are important selection criteria. Interns gain clinical experience with a wide variety of patient populations and across multiple settings through inpatient, outpatient and community placements. The training program fosters a collegial atmosphere and emphasizes a junior-colleague model with interns in a variety of clinical, research and professional settings.

The internship year is divided into 3 four-month rotations and multiple clinical rotations are available (See Rotations below), each serving different populations and providing unique services. Interns are expected to accumulate at least 500 face-to-face clinical hours during the internship year. Rotation assignments are made based on interns' rankings and Training Program faculty input based on intern's training needs and clinical goals. Interns provide rankings twice during the year, prior to the start of internship and in September, to allow for experiences with the first rotation to be considered before making choices for the second and third rotations. Rotations are divided into Child and Adult emphasis areas. Interns are encouraged to gain experiences within both emphasis areas. Clinical supervision and training are conducted on a one-on-one and small group basis within each clinical rotation. For the upcoming training year, the UMMC Psychology Internship Training Program will have 6 internship positions.

A unique aspect of clinical experiences offered through the Training Program includes the racial/ethnic and socioeconomic variations of patient populations served at UMMC. In Mississippi, more than 35% of the population is Black/African American and 80% of the state is considered rural. Related topics are incorporated into supervision, research, didactics and professional development activities during the internship training year.

Additional clinical opportunities occur through the General Psychology Clinic, where interns gain experience working with longer-term outpatient cases and can receive supervision from Training Program psychology faculty other than their rotation supervisors. Currently, services are provided in this clinic via telehealth from the main UMMC campus. Interns spend a half day per week providing clinical services through the General Psychology Clinic.

For applicants interested in neuropsychology, this site can meet required training for post-doctoral training according to the Houston Conference Guidelines. Neuropsychology journal club, which meets throughout the year, offers additional neuropsychological education.

To facilitate growth and successful progress in the program, interns receive formal evaluative feedback on their progress on training goals/objectives during the end of each rotation and at the mid-rotation during the first rotation. Interns also meet individually with the Training Director at least bi-monthly throughout the training year to discuss training related goals and program progress, as well as professional development related issues. Interns must demonstrate performance at the high intermediate level on all competencies to complete internship.

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Rotations:

The UMMC Psychology Internship Training Program offers clinical rotations in both child and adult emphasis areas. Interns are encouraged to participate in rotations in both areas. Some rotations offer both halftime (14 hrs/week) and full-time (28 hrs/week) experiences, as well as mini-rotation (4-8 hrs/week) opportunities. The rotation descriptions provide specific information about which options are available for each rotation.

Child-Focused Rotations:

Center for the Advancement of Youth (CAY)
Child and Adolescent Inpatient
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH)
Parent-Child Interactive Therapy (PCIT) Mini Rotation
Pediatric Psychology

Adult-Focused Rotations:

Acute Consultation Liaison
Administrative Mini Rotation
Adult Inpatient
Center for Innovation and Discovery in Addictions (CIDA)
Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH)
Methodist Rehabilitation Neuropsychology/Behavioral Medicine
Neuropsychology
Trauma and Dual Disorders

Rotation Descriptions:

Child-Focused Rotations

Center for the Advancement of Youth (CAY) Rotation, Dr. Banks (primary supervisor), Erp, Sarver and Seifen: This rotation provides extensive training with diverse pediatric populations within the Center for Advancement of Youth (CAY). Residents will participate in a fully integrated multidisciplinary clinic and be provided with opportunities for psychological assessments and interventions that include infants through adolescents, including those with potential medical co-morbidities. The CAY clinic offers several clinical experiences among which the resident may participate in based on interest and availability. Assessment opportunities include: (1) interdisciplinary (psychology/developmental pediatrician) brief diagnostic and treatment planning assessments for children with developmental or emotional-behavioral difficulties and (2) psychological and psychoeducational assessment for a range of learning, developmental and psychological conditions. Treatment opportunities include: (3) provision of evidence-based therapy for mood, anxiety and externalizing behaviors for children (primarily preschool age range with some opportunities for middle childhood and adolescent age range); (4) parent-management training for preschoolers delivered in clinic through the Brief Behavior Intervention (BBI). Additional opportunities for interested residents include early childhood/infant developmental assessment and autism screening evaluation. Some intervention services at CAY are provided through telehealth as well. The CAY rotation also offers professional development opportunities through didactics. Overall, this rotation emphasizes diagnostic and intervention skills necessary for future career opportunities in pediatric and child/adolescent psychology.

Child and Adolescent Inpatient Rotation, Dr. Seifen: This rotation provides extensive training in providing psychological services to children and adolescents who are hospitalized on the acute psychiatric inpatient units (2 Circle and 3 Circle) at Children’s of Mississippi. The units provide services for children ages 4-12 years and adolescents ages 13-17 who present with a wide range of psychiatric problems, including depression, anxiety, oppositional/conduct problems, trauma, Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Autism Spectrum Disorder, and other neurodevelopmental disorders. The typical length of the inpatient stay ranges from 7 to 14 days. The units provide an excellent opportunity for residents to observe and work with children and adolescents presenting with a range of mental illnesses including severe psychopathology. Residents will be part of a multidisciplinary treatment team and participate in daily rounds with the team. They will have the opportunity to be involved in developing treatment plans and appropriate follow-up care after discharge for each patient. Given the brief length of stay on the inpatient units, clinical services are typically acute and short-term. Assessment opportunities on the unit include: (1) self-report measures to help with diagnostic clarification and treatment planning, (2) brief cognitive testing for the purpose of a referral to residential care, and (3) additional testing if needed (e.g., academic testing, assessment of adaptive skills). Intervention opportunities consist of (1) brief evidence-based individual therapy, (2) group therapy consisting of daily mindfulness and relaxation activities, social skills training, or CBT/DBT groups, and (3) providing psychoeducation and teaching behavior management strategies to parents and caregivers of patients. Residents will also be involved in developing behavioral recommendations for patients to support the staff on the unit in managing behavioral challenges. Residents may also have the opportunity to supervise junior trainees (e.g., counseling interns) using a hierarchical supervision model.

Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH), Drs. Daniels, Sarver and Walker: This rotation provides interns with diverse clinical experiences in the provision of services to adults and children that support infant and early childhood mental health, with emphasis on high-risk children and their caregivers beginning prenatally and postnatally in the Maternal Fetal Medicine clinic, Wiser Hospital for Women and Infants, the UMMC Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) and Newborn High-Risk Follow-Up Clinic. The rotation provides mini-rotation experiences that can be constructed for interns seeking experiences for either an adult or child track rotation. Note that the first child experience is a required activity for that track, but for a full-time rotation there may be a total of 2-3 mini-rotation experiences that the intern can select.

Child Experiences

• ***Required IECMH experience for child track*** Interns will obtain experience in the multidisciplinary assessment of early neurodevelopmental and behavioral functioning of high-risk children under the age of 4 years (typically at 24 months of age) with NICU histories including with assessment tools such as the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, Fourth Edition (Bayley-4) and the Screening Tool for Autism and Toddlers (STAT). Brief consultation addressing common issues related to attachment, parenting behaviors and developmental support in infancy and toddlerhood.
• Interns will obtain experience conducting outpatient neurodevelopmental and behavioral monitoring assessments of high-risk children with NICU histories, typically of children aged 3-5 years.

Adult Experiences

• Interns will gain clinical experiences in conducting perinatal mental health services (i.e., screening, assessment, brief intervention, and linkages to community-based services) for pregnant persons with high-risk pregnancies (e.g., prenatal congenital diagnoses) in an integrated Maternal Fetal Medicine and OB/GYN clinics. Interns will work with individuals both prenatally and postpartum, including with issues of postpartum depression, trauma, anxiety, and severe mental illness. Additionally, interns will have the opportunity to provide a range of therapeutic services across diverse treatment settings for the perinatal population (e.g., inpatient, consultations, and outpatient therapy, etc.).
• In the UMMC NICU, interns will provide consultations, brief screening, intervention (individual and parent support group), to parents of newborns/infants in the NICU requiring support. Given that the UMMC NICU is the only level IV NICU in the state of Mississippi, interns will gain experience serving families from diverse racial/ethnic, geographic and sociodemographic backgrounds and will gain exposure to an array of medical conditions (e.g., congenital heart disease; genetic disorders) influencing the developmental and behavioral health of children.

Collectively, the experience provides interns with exposure to a continuum of care across early development for high-risk infants and toddlers. Interventions will be provided in person and via telehealth to support home transitions. Interns will provide services within a strong integrated setting that emphasizes collaborative clinical care among multiple professions (e.g., neonatology, nursing, social work, early intervention). Interns will have the opportunity to provide supervision to masters-level psychology students during assessments and participate in multidisciplinary team meetings on the unit.

Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) Mini Rotation, Drs. Sarver and Seifen: The Parent-Child Interaction Therapy (PCIT) Mini Rotation is designed to provide psychology residents with foundational training and supervised clinical experience in evidence-based treatment for young children with disruptive behavior concerns and their caregivers. This year-long rotation consists of a half-day per week at the UMMC Center for Advancement of Youth. Residents will carry approximately 2–3 PCIT cases consistently throughout the training year and will participate in all phases of treatment. Clinical activities include live caregiver coaching sessions, progress monitoring, documentation, and participation in supervision. Residents will receive weekly supervision from a PCIT Within Agency Trainer (WAT), with emphasis on developing competency in PCIT principles, fidelity to the treatment model, and use of behavioral observation and coding systems. Supervision will include case conceptualization, review of clinical skills, and discussion of implementation challenges. The rotation is structured to support residents in progressing at least two PCIT cases through treatment completion by the end of the training year. This training experience is intended to help residents meet eligibility requirements to apply for PCIT Therapist Certification following graduation and completion of additional PCIT international requirements. This rotation is appropriate for residents with an interest in child clinical psychology, behavioral interventions, and evidence-based treatment with children and families.

Please note, that the PCIT Mini Rotation runs for the full training year. Therefore, if you elect this rotation, your other rotation experiences will be reduced by a half day.

Pediatric Psychology Rotation, Drs. Karlson and Ford: This rotation provides extensive training with pediatric populations in a variety of settings and clinics affiliated with UMMC. Experiences take place in the Multidisciplinary Pediatric Craniofacial Clinic, Children's Cancer Outpatient Clinic, Batson Children's Hospital Pediatric Hematology/Oncology Inpatient Unit, Multidisciplinary Pediatric Brain Tumor Clinic, Pediatric Neurology Clinic and Multidisciplinary Cystic Fibrosis Center. During this rotation, interns will develop effective communication and consultation skills while working closely with families and other health care providers. Interns participate in consultation and liaison services for UMMC pediatric treatment teams, conducting supervised neuropsychology assessments, brief screening and diagnostic interviews and psychological interventions for inpatient and outpatient populations with a number of different presenting medical diagnoses (cancer, sickle cell, stroke, genetic conditions, craniofacial conditions, headaches, tic disorders, arthritics, Cystic Fibrosis, etc.). Two unique aspects of behavioral pediatrics are (1) the exceedingly wide range of problems seen by interns, including internalizing, externalizing and learning disorders and (2) the relatively brief time frame in which assessment and treatment can take place. This aspect of the rotation emphasizes the diagnostic and treatment skills necessary for handling, in a timely manner, the wide range of cases presented in a pediatric/hospital setting. Interns have addressed problems such as adjustment, adherence to medical regimen, adaptive functioning, disruptive behavior, feeding problems, sleep problems, toileting, pain management, grief and other areas. Opportunities for quality improvement projects may also be available for interested interns.

Adult-Focused Rotations

Adult Consult and Liaison (ACL) Rotation, Drs. Burgess and Perry: The goals of this rotation are to learn how to assess and treat patients within an inpatient medical environment. Interns will gain experience evaluating the psychological, behavioral, cognitive, and emotional factors that influence medical illness, treatment adherence, recovery, and overall functioning. Particular emphasis is placed on collaborative interdisciplinary care, brief evidence-based interventions, behavioral medicine approaches, and psychological consultation within fast-paced hospital settings. Interns function as integrated members of an interdisciplinary consultation team and will participate in consultations across a variety of inpatient medical services, which may include internal medicine, surgery, neurology, transplant, oncology, cardiology, and other specialty medical units. Common referral concerns may include depression, anxiety, adjustment to illness, coping with chronic medical conditions, behavioral dysregulation, functional neurological symptoms, delirium, cognitive concerns, treatment adherence difficulties, somatic symptom presentations, health-related anxiety, substance use, and capacity-related concerns.

Administrative Mini Rotation, Dr. Ford: This rotation aims to help interns prepare for the administrative roles that will be part of their careers. The rotation provides an overview of current administrative, strategic and performance improvement initiatives and issues in the Department of Psychiatry. Interns will select a focus or project from among these options, which are tailored to the intern's interests or training needs whenever possible. Interns will also have the opportunity to observe additional administrative activities by shadowing faculty in meetings.

Adult Inpatient Rotation, Drs. Daniels & Voluse: The goals of this rotation are to develop skills in assessing and treating individuals within an acute care inpatient psychiatric unit as part of an interdisciplinary team (e.g., psychiatry attendings and residents, psychology, social work, medical students, pharmacy, and psychiatric nurse practitioners). Training takes place on two locked adult inpatient psychiatry units at UMMC, where the intern works closely with the treatment team and serves as the psychology consultant. In this role, the intern functions as an integral member of the team and gains experience with an interdisciplinary approach to psychiatric care.

Responsibilities include completing integrated assessment reports to address complex consultation questions and support diagnostic clarification, providing psychoeducation about psychological treatments, delivering brief interventions (e.g., relapse prevention planning), and assessing functional developmental skills. Interns also develop and apply trauma-informed and recovery-oriented approaches to care, including facilitating skills-based groups and supporting patient-centered treatment planning.

Additional opportunities include providing in-service training and participating in shadowing experiences with medical students and psychiatry residents. Common presenting concerns include psychotic disorders, mood disorders, and trauma-related disorders. Given the high prevalence of substance misuse within acute psychiatry populations, there are also opportunities to assess and treat substance use and co-occurring disorders.

Center for Innovation and Discovery in Addictions Rotation (CIDA), Dr. Voluse (Primary), Dr. Daniels, and Dr. Perry: The CIDA rotation is conceived as an opportunity for interns to work with adult patients with substance use disorders across a range of settings as follows:

Outpatient Settings

• Helping HAND is an initiative that identifies patients with substance use disorders (SUD) through use of Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) and offers motivational, behavioral and cognitive-behavioral interventions for SUD. The rotation is set in the Department of Medicine's Adult Special Care Clinic, a sub-specialty medical clinic for individuals living with HIV/AIDS. The rotation provides extensive experiences with racial, ethnic and sexual minorities and provides exposure to HIV care. Interns rotating on CIDA are assigned a caseload of Helping HAND patients and follow them for the duration of the rotation. Additionally, interns on this rotation will have exposure to applying contingency management as an effective intervention.
• River Chase Flowood (RCF) is the Department of Psychiatry's general outpatient clinic. Within RCF's services is the Addiction Clinic where interns rotating on CIDA will have the opportunity to provide SUD evaluations and deliver behavioral and cognitive-behavioral SUD treatment in person and via telehealth technology. As with Helping HAND, interns will follow a caseload of patients throughout the rotation. As the clinic also provides Medication Assisted Treatment (MAT), the intern will gain exposure to this treatment modality as well. Based on availability, opportunities may exist for interns to engage in assessment and treatment of patients who are either pre- or post-liver transplant due to alcohol consumption.

Inpatient Settings

• The intern will serve as a primary addictions-focused consultant to the Department of Psychiatry's Consultation/Liaison (C/L) Service. C/L evaluates patients throughout the medical center's inpatient units and seeks input from the CIDA intern to include in their treatment recommendations. The intern has an opportunity to work with a multidisciplinary team in a medical setting and to provide brief motivational interventions as well as engage in planning and recommendations for treatment.
• Patients with known or suspected SUD and/or related comorbidities are identified while admitted to the Department of Psychiatry's two inpatient adult psychiatric units: a high intensity unit (7 West) and a psychiatric stepdown unit (7 East). As in the C/L role, interns are called upon to work with patients from a motivational framework and to develop evidence-based treatment recommendations, although in a psychiatric rather than a medical setting. Additional opportunities to lead skills-based groups and complete integrated reports may be available.

Taken together, the settings encompassed in the CIDA rotation provide a comprehensive context for primarily SUD-focused evaluation and treatment and expose the intern to the larger system framework in which SUD treatment takes place.

Infant and Early Childhood Mental Health (IECMH), Drs. Daniels, Smolinski, and Walker: This rotation provides interns with diverse clinical experiences in the provision of services to adults and children that support infant and early childhood mental health, with emphasis on high-risk children and their caregivers beginning prenatally and postnatally in the Maternal Fetal Medicine clinic, Wiser Hospital for Women and Infants, the UMMC Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), and Newborn High-Risk Follow-Up Clinic. The rotation provides mini-rotation experiences that can be constructed for interns seeking experiences for either an adult or child track rotation. Note that the first child experience is a required activity for that track, but for a full-time rotation there may be a total of 2-3 mini-rotation experiences that the intern can select.

Child Experiences

• ***Required IECMH experience for child track*** Interns will obtain experience in the multidisciplinary assessment of early neurodevelopmental and behavioral functioning of high-risk children under the age of 4 years (typically at 24 months of age) with NICU histories including with assessment tools such as the Bayley Scales of Infant and Toddler Development, Fourth Edition (Bayley-4) and the Screening Tool for Autism and Toddlers (STAT). Brief consultation addressing common issues related to attachment, parenting behaviors and developmental support in infancy and toddlerhood.
• Interns will obtain experience conducting outpatient neurodevelopmental and behavioral monitoring assessments of high-risk children with NICU histories, typically of children aged 3-5 years.

Adult Experiences

• Interns will gain clinical experiences in conducting perinatal mental health services (i.e., screening, assessment, brief intervention, and linkages to community-based services) for pregnant persons with high-risk pregnancies (e.g., prenatal congenital diagnoses) in an integrated Maternal Fetal Medicine and OB/GYN clinics. Interns will work with individuals both prenatally and postpartum, including with issues of postpartum depression, trauma, anxiety, and severe mental illness. Additionally, interns will have the opportunity to provide a range of therapeutic services across diverse treatment settings for the perinatal population (e.g., inpatient, consultations, and outpatient therapy, etc.).
• In the UMMC NICU, interns will provide consultations, brief screening, intervention (individual and parent support group), to parents of newborns/infants in the NICU requiring support. Given that the UMMC NICU is the only level IV NICU in the state of Mississippi, interns will gain experience serving families from diverse racial/ethnic, geographic and sociodemographic backgrounds and will gain exposure to an array of medical conditions (e.g., congenital heart disease; genetic disorders) influencing the developmental and behavioral health of children.

Collectively, the experience provides interns with exposure to a continuum of care across early development for high-risk infants and toddlers. Interventions will be provided in person and via telehealth to support home transitions. Interns will provide services within a strong integrated setting that emphasizes collaborative clinical care among multiple professions (e.g., neonatology, nursing, social work, early intervention). Interns will have the opportunity to provide supervision to masters-level psychology students during assessments and participate in multidisciplinary team meetings on the unit.

Methodist Rehabilitation Hospital Neuropsychology/Behavioral Medicine Rotation, Dr. Evans: The goal of this rotation is to provide interns with supervised assessment and treatment of clinical cases in a physical medicine and rehabilitation setting. Experiences include consultation on inpatient brain injury, stroke, general orthopedic and spinal cord injury services. Interns will learn to conduct brief cognitive exams for TBI, stroke, anoxic brain injury and brain tumor patient populations utilizing formal instruments such as 3MS, MOCA, CAP/GOAT, ABS, NAB and MAST to monitor patient change over time and report findings in the medical record. Interns have opportunities to learn to administer and interpret formal neuropsychological evaluations and provide recommendations given in these types of settings if desired. Interns will be supervised and trained in giving patient and family feedback on both formal and informal evaluations. There is opportunity for involvement with family conferences for provision of test results and education regarding course of recovery. They will also be actively monitoring mood/emotional adjustment in patients. As a second option, this rotation can be tailored with more of a therapy focus than assessment focus. Interns will have opportunities to provide psychotherapy targeting depression, anxiety and adjustment to disability. They will also be trained in provision of brief cognitive and behavioral interventions targeting problems such as obesity/weight management, substance abuse, chronic pain and smoking cessation. Inpatients often need education and assistance in making behavior changes to help manage newly diagnosed medical conditions.  Interns have the opportunity to observe weekly staffing for inpatient consults as time allows and work with treatment team members on specific behavioral or emotional issues.

Neuropsychology Rotation, Dr. Ross (Primary) & Dr. Manning: The Neuropsychology Rotation offers residents broad clinical exposure to adult outpatient neuropsychology within a multidisciplinary academic medical setting. Consultation services are provided to Neurology, Neurosurgery, Psychiatry, and related specialties, with an emphasis on the evaluation of complex cognitive, behavioral, and emotional presentations.

Clinical experiences include assessment of:

• Cognitive and behavioral functioning following traumatic brain injury and stroke
• Neurological and medical conditions requiring diagnostic clarification and treatment planning, including epilepsy, brain tumors, and encephalitis
• Aging-related cognitive disorders, including mild and major neurocognitive disorders such as Alzheimer’s disease, frontotemporal dementia, and vascular dementia
• Cognitive and behavioral changes associated with movement disorders, including Huntington’s disease and Parkinson’s disease
• Behavioral health conditions, including ADHD and psychogenic nonepileptic attacks

Residents gain experience in formal neuropsychological evaluation and testing, interpretation of findings, differential diagnosis, and development of treatment recommendations to support rehabilitation and ongoing care. The rotation also provides unique exposure to specialized neuropsychological services, including presurgical evaluations, sodium Amytal/propofol (Wada) procedures (although rare), functional MRI (fMRI), awake craniotomies, and postoperative bedside examinations for awake craniotomy patients.

Additional opportunities include participation in educational activities for physicians and staff focused on the behavioral and cognitive aspects of neurological illness. Residents with interest in further specialty training may also attend the Neuropsychology Journal Club, which meets throughout the year and provides additional learning in clinical neuropsychology.

Trauma and Dual Disorders Rotation, Drs. Burgess, Daniels, & Voluse: The goal of this rotation is to learn how to assess and treat the acute and chronic sequelae of exposure to psychological trauma in inpatient and outpatient settings with and without co-occurring substance use disorders. The primary focus is on evidence-based treatment of trauma-related disorders, particularly the treatment of PTSD using exposure-based treatment, cognitive processing therapy, or other evidence-based approaches and transdiagnostic treatment of emotion dysregulation with dialectical behavior therapy skills, with the opportunity to also acquire advanced skills in motivational interviewing. The treatments will be provided in group and individual formats. There also are opportunities to treat anxiety and mood disorders such as depression, social anxiety, generalized anxiety, panic and bipolar disorder using a variety of evidence-based protocols. There are opportunities to complete evaluations of clients, to prepare integrated reports and to make recommendations to other providers and treatment teams. The clinical experiences take place on UMMC's inpatient and outpatient psychiatry services. Opportunities to train staff in cognitive behavioral treatment approaches, to provide general program consultation to services and clinical supervision to doctoral students may also be available.

Clinical Training during COVID-19: During the 2019-2020 internship training year there were modifications made to our program's clinical rotations to limit intern exposure to the COVID-19 virus and to comply with organizational and local recommendations. These modifications included conducting telehealth and telephone-based treatments, assessments, consultations and supervision. Our interns were also involved in providing services to UMMC employees and students through a stress and coping hotline specific to COVID-19. All of our interns were able to obtain sufficient clinical hours to graduate the program. During the 2020-2021 internship training year, our clinical rotations returned to primarily providing services to patients in-person. Masks can be worn during patient encounters, but are not required for staff or patients. Various personal protective equipment is available for intern use during patient encounters. In addition, UMMC has a robust telehealth infrastructure and telehealth services continue to be implemented in a variety of our clinical outpatient settings. This allows psychology interns to gain experience providing telehealth services to a variety of patient populations. In the event that organizational and local leaders recommend limiting in-person services in the future due to the COVID-19 virus, our clinical supervisors are prepared for interns to provide telehealth services and supervise interns in the implementation of these services.

Curriculum:

Supervision

Clinical supervision is provided on clinical rotations in individual and small group formats. Supervision for the General Psychology Clinic is conducted in groups according to program track and patient population. Interns receive at least 4 hours of supervision a week, with 3 hours provided on clinical rotations and 1 hour provided for the General Psychology Clinic. The supervision model varies based on the clinical rotation and supervisor, but generally is developmental in regards to the intern's previous experience in the setting and with the patient population, as well as intern individual clinical training goals.

Practice and Dissemination Curriculum

Beginning in 2008 with generous funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R25DA026637, PI: Julie A. Schumacher, Program of Excellence in Practice and Dissemination of Motivational Interviewing), the UMMC Training Program began development and implementation of our Practice and Dissemination Curriculum. The curriculum was developed in response to increasing awareness of Training Program faculty that dissemination and implementation of evidence based behavioral treatments remains a major challenge for researchers, professional organizations and federal and state agencies.

Despite the discovery of several promising therapeutic interventions for a variety of disorders, the gap between research and practice still exists and many practitioners continue to rely on treatments supported only by anecdotal and idiographic evidence. Further, although many facilities and practitioners base their treatment philosophy on evidence-based practices, the treatment provided may bear little to no resemblance to actual evidence-based practices.

We believe that research oriented doctoral training programs, internship programs and postdoctoral fellowship programs in psychology currently represent an important mechanism through which evidence-based behavioral practices are disseminated. However, many of these programs, including our own Training Program, specialize in training individuals who seek to become academic psychologists rather than full-time practitioners. Thus, our Practice and Dissemination Curriculum is designed to foster broader dissemination and implementation of evidence-based behavioral treatments by these programs.

The intent of this curriculum is to foster ongoing dissemination and implementation of evidence-based practices in the state of Mississippi and beyond, by: 1) fully integrating the curriculum into our training program, 2) instilling a desire for further dissemination and implementation work in our trainees and 3) disseminating the curriculum as a model for training. The focus of this curriculum from 2008-13 was motivational interviewing for substance use disorders, from 2013-2016 it was exposure-based treatment for posttraumatic stress disorder and from 2016-22 will focus on Screening, Brief Intervention and Referral to Treatment (SBIRT) for substance use disorders. Beginning the 2022-2023 training year, with the generous grant support from HRSA (PI: Sarver), the focus has been on Integrated Behavioral Health.

Seminars and Grand Rounds

The UMMC Training Program offers a series of didactic seminars that cover a broad range of topics, including professional development, grant writing (See Research Opportunities below for more information), assessment and treatment approaches with specific populations, neuropsychology, psychopharmacology, research methodology, legal and ethical issues, cultural differences and supervision. Psychology interns attend the UMMC Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior grand rounds approximately every other week, which includes medical students, psychiatry residents and fellows, as well as faculty from psychology, psychiatry and neurobiology and behavior research. A Job Talk/Case Presentation series is presented by psychology interns and post docs. Interns are expected to present a job talk during the fall and a clinical case in the spring to psychology interns and post docs, psychiatry residents and fellows and department faculty. More information regarding the interdisciplinary education programming in the department can be found here: /Psychiatry/Curriculum. Finally, many other seminars, grand rounds and informal presentations offered by other departments are open to our trainees.

The UMMC Psychology Internship Training Program has a strong reputation for providing excellent professional development seminars. The professional development seminars include topics ranging from non-traditional career and leadership pathways, licensure preparation, billing and productivity models, to work/life balance.

Internship Faculty for the 2027-2028 Internship Year:

• Gabrielle Banks, PhD, Associate Professor, Center for the Advancement of Youth, Department of Pediatrics (CAY Rotation)
• Danny Burgess, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Adult Acute Consultation & Liaison and Trauma & Dual Disorders Rotations, GPC Supervisor)
• Monica Daniels, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Adult Inpatient, IECMH, and Trauma & Dual Disorders Rotations)
• Lauren Erp, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (CAY Rotation)
• Clea Evans, PhD, Director of Neuropsychology, Methodist Rehabilitation Center (Methodist Rehabilitation Hospital Neuropsychology/Behavioral Medicine Rotation)
• Hannah Ford, PhD, Associate Professor, Vice Chair of Education, Psychology Residency Training Director, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, (Pediatric Psychology and Administrative Mini Rotations)
• Cynthia Karlson, PhD, Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology (Pediatric Psychology Rotation)
• Taylor Perry, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Adult Acute Consultation Liaison, CIDA, and Pediatric Psychology Rotations)
• Nathan Ross, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Neurology (Neuropsychology Rotation)
• Dustin Sarver, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Executive Director of the Center for Advancement of Youth (CAY and Mini PCIT Rotations, GPC Supervisor)
• Tanja Seifen, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, Director of Division of Psychology (Child & Adolescent Inpatient and PCIT Mini Rotations)
• Erica Smolinski, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (IECMH Rotation)
• Andrew Voluse, PhD, Professor, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (Adult Inpatient, CIDA, and Trauma & Dual Disorders Rotations)
• Courtney Walker, PhD, Associate Professor, Vice Chair of Faculty Development, Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior (IECMH Rotation)

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Research Opportunities:

While clinical training activities play a paramount role in our program, interns are expected to maintain active involvement in scholarly activities, which is consistent with our scientist-practitioner model. To fulfill the core research competency requirement, it is expected that each intern will complete a scholarly project during the course of the training year. This project may take a variety of forms, such as original research, a quality improvement initiative, policy analysis, development of an original curriculum, case study, or literature review, depending on the intern’s professional interests and goals. To accomplish this goal interns are paired with a research preceptor who is a faculty member or affiliate faculty member from UMMC, whose scholarly interests and experience are consistent with the interests or goals of the intern. These assignments are based primarily on intern rankings, as well as the availability of preceptors. At the beginning of the training year, interns will work with their preceptor to develop a project plan that defines scope, goals, deliverables, and dissemination strategy, as well as any additional research-related goals for the year. Throughout the year, interns are expected to plan and implement their project, culminating in a scholarly product suitable for presentation or publication (e.g., manuscript submission, policy brief, course materials, case report, or QI project report). There is considerable flexibility in the content, scope, and focus of scholarly projects completed by interns; however, it is expected that it will consist of a project completed at UMMC and independent of the dissertation. The scholarly project must reflect a level of rigor, depth, and scholarly contribution comparable to that of a 1st author manuscript in a peer-reviewed journal. Interns will be expected to present these projects to faculty and peers by the end of the training year. . A high percentage of former psychology interns have authored or co-authored multiple publications based on their research activities during the internship year.

To facilitate achievement of these scholarly goals and expectations, interns receive up to 8 hours of protected time per week for scholarly/research activities and professional development. Failure to meet the capstone project expectation will not result in failure of the internship program (as long as the intern achieves a rating of at least high intermediate on the Scientific Knowledge and Methods and Research/Evaluation domains), but may result in intern protected research time being reassigned to meet other training goals. The Research Training Oversight Committee oversees the monitoring of progress on research-related competencies and helps to facilitate a modified plan in the rare instance that an intern's research time is reassigned due to insufficient progress.

Didactics on grantsmanship are part of the internship training experience and all interns are expected to participate in this seminar series. Grant writing didactics are led by Training Program faculty members who have a strong history of attracting external funding and have considerable experience reviewing NIH grants. Interns are encouraged to begin and perhaps complete, a draft of their own independent grant by the end of the internship year.

Significant resources are available to support research training activities. PCs are easily accessible with primary software packages including MS Office (Word, PowerPoint, Excel), STATA, SAS and SPSS among others.  Laboratory and A/V equipment include psychophysiological assessment and biofeedback equipment, video recorder/playback systems, DLP projectors, etc. Online survey and data management services are available through Qualtrics and REDCap. The Rowland Medical Library offers excellent facilities and receives all major psychology journals; in addition, the vast majority of these journals are available electronically. The capacity for database searches Medline, ERIC, CINAHL, HEALTH, PsychINFO and PsychLit (Psychological Abstracts) is available on-site and remotely.

Research Preceptors for 2027-2028 Internship Year:

Gabrielle Banks

• Areas of Interest: Parenting, early childhood, cultural factors
• Possible Projects: Case studies, white paper, quality improvement projects

Danny Burgess

• Areas of Interest: Wellness/well-being, Integrative health approaches and interventions, teaching practices
• Possible Projects: Quality improvement projects, program development, case studies

Monica Daniels

• Areas of Interest: Perinatal mental health, infant mental health, black maternal mental health, dyadic interventions, intergenerational transmission of childbirth practices, social determinants of health/mental health
• Possible Projects: Traditional manuscripts, case studies, quality improvement

Hannah Ford

• Areas of Interest: Pediatric sleep, pediatric chronic pain, functional disorders, pediatric chronic illness (quality of life, self-efficacy, etc).
• Possible Projects: Quality improvement, program development, white papers, case studies, traditional manuscripts 

Cynthia Karlson

• Areas of Interest: Pediatric chronic pain, pediatric chronic illness (adjustment, quality of life, sleep, peers, etc.), neurocognitive outcomes in pediatric medical populations.
• Possible Projects: Traditional manuscripts, case studies, original data collection

Taylor Perry

• Areas of Interest: Eating disorders, functional disorders
• Possible Projects: Traditional manuscripts, quality improvement projects, case studies, white paper

Donna Platt

• Areas of Interest: Preclinical studies of substance use disorders, behavioral pharmacological and pharmacogenetic approaches to study risk/resiliency and treatment response, developing animal models that mimic behavioral therapies
• Possible Projects: Traditional manuscripts

Dustin Sarver

• Areas of Interest: Neurodevelopmental (ADHD, ASD) and behavioral disorders, infant and early childhood mental health, parenting interventions and prevention programs for behavioral difficulties (PCIT, CARE), mental healthcare access and implementation, continuums of care
• Possible Projects: Traditional manuscripts, grant applications and new data, qualitative/mixed-methods 

Julie Schumacher

• Areas of Interest: Harmful alcohol and drug use including etiology and prevention, provider training in alcohol and drug use prevention/treatment and motivational interviewing-based interventions, use of technology to enhance and increase accessibility of alcohol/drug prevention and provider training
• Possible Projects: Traditional manuscripts, case studies, white papers

Tanja Seifen

• Areas of Interest: Autism, childhood trauma, childhood behavioral disorders, acute psychiatric care, suicidal ideation
• Possible Projects: Traditional manuscripts, case studies

Andrew Voluse

• Areas of Interest: Substance use disorders in underrepresented/underserved populations, SUD comorbidities, motivational interviewing, mindfulness
• Possible Projects: Traditional manuscripts, case studies, white papers

Courtney Walker

• Areas of Interest: Perinatal mental health, neurodevelopmental outcomes of extremely preterm infants
• Possible Projects: Traditional manuscripts, white papers

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Training Committees:

The internship program consists of various committees that oversee intern's experiences throughout the year.

Residency Training Committee (RTC)

Chair: Hannah Ford

Vice Chair: Tanja Seifen

Role: Functions as the oversight committee for the UMMC Psychology Internship Program. The RTC and its Subcommittees serve to provide oversight related to the clinical, research and elements of interns training experiences. Through ongoing tracking of Training Program activities and intern progress these subcommittees also help the RTC to ensure that competency benchmarks and training goals are achieved.

Clinical Training Oversight Committee

Role: Oversees and tracks intern's clinical training to ensure needs and goals are met during the training year.

Research Training Oversight Committee

Role: Oversees and tracks intern's involvement in programmatic research and professional development activities to facilitate development of competencies associated with success in academic clinical psychology.

There is also a training oversight committee that assesses the training environment to ensure interns develop adequate competence relating to consideration of and attention to issues of various backgrounds in clinical, research and professional development activities.

Current Interns:

Interns:

• Sierra Hightower-Henson, MS (Ohio University)
• Jessica Hinojosa, MS (Southern Illinois University)
• Katelyn Jackman, MS (Brigham Young University)
• Sarah Lehman, MS (Florida International University)
• Blaine Stiglets, MA (East Tennessee State University)
• Kayla Wagler, MS (Oklahoma State University)

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Application and Interview Process:

Eligibility:

Doctoral students in APA-accredited Clinical or Counseling Psychology programs, who have accrued a minimum of 500 hours of documented, psychologist supervised direct client contact hours through a combination of therapy and assessment experience as verified by the training director of the doctoral program, are eligible to apply to the internship program. All coursework required for the doctoral degree must be completed prior to the start of internship, as well as any qualifying, comprehensive, or preliminary doctoral examinations. We prefer candidates whose doctoral dissertations will be completed, or at least well under way, before the beginning of the internship year. In addition, we are interested in applicants who desire to become licensed psychologists and seek employment in academic, academic medicine and other clinical research settings. As an equal opportunity training program, the internship welcomes and strongly encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, age, racial, ethnic, sexual orientation, disability or other minority status.

Application Procedure:

We utilize the AAPI Online. The program application can be completed online at www.appic.org. Applicants are required to submit: 1) a completed AAPI, 2) three letters of recommendation, 3) a current Curriculum Vita, 4) a cover letter and 5) a transcript from all graduate programs attended. No additional materials are required.

The application deadline for the 2027-2028 training year is November 15^th. In your program specific cover letter, please indicate which track (adult or child) you are most interested in, as well as identify a potential research preceptor.

Interviews are only offered virtually. Applicants will participate in virtual individual and group meetings with program faculty, as well as virtual meetings with our current interns. Please check our program website for announcements or contact the Program Administrator and Training Director regarding upcoming virtual events we are planning for prospective applicants to the program.

After we receive your application, we will let you know whether you have been selected for an interview via NMS Interview. You will be invited to schedule your interview date through the NMS Interview platform. Our program director will also reach out with additional information about the program and interviews. Interviews are only offered virtually. Applicants will participate in virtual individual and group meetings with program faculty, as well as virtual meetings with our current interns and postdocs.

We will be hosting a virtual open house on Friday, October 23^rd at 4 p.m. CT for those who are interested in learning more about the program. The open house will include faculty, current interns and alumni from recent years who will be available to talk about the program and answer any questions. If you are interested in attending the open house, please click here to register. You may contact our program administrator, Ashley Smith (agsmith1@umc.edu), with any questions.

Our program faculty would very much like to have the opportunity to meet with prospective candidates. Please feel free to introduce yourself if attending any upcoming conferences, such as ABCT. Additionally, please reach out to our program administrator, Ashley Smith (agsmith1@umc.edu), if you have any questions or feel it would be helpful to speak further with one of our faculty.

Notification of Acceptance:

As a member of the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers (APPIC), the UMMC Training Program abides by the APPIC Policy on Internship Offers and Acceptances and participates in the APPIC computer-matching program. No person at this training facility will offer, solicit, accept, or use any ranking-related information regarding any intern applicant.

Program Administrator:

Ashley Smith, program administrator, is invaluable to our internship program. She is the program's primary contact person and keeps the program running smoothly. Please e-mail Ashley (agsmith1@umc.edu) for information about the program, the application process, or with general questions about the program.

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Administrative Policies and Procedures:

Financial Support:

Interns accepted to the UMMC Psychology Internship Training Program are paid a minimum of $31,100 and receive the state financial health insurance plan, which is covered in their pay.  During the training year interns accrue 18 days of personal leave, and 12 days of sick leave. Interns receive 5 days of professional leave  to attend conferences or for other professional experiences. Additionally, there are 10 paid holidays. As UMMC employees, interns receive retirement and health insurance benefits afforded all UMMC employees. Interns are required to contribute at least 9% of their salary towards retirement and have the option to participate in state or other retirement plans. UMMC also provides contributions towards intern retirement. Interns may incur additional costs for other elective health benefits coverage (e.g., lower deductible health insurance, dental, vision, etc.). Please visit the UMMC HR Benefits website for additional details about employee benefits, health insurance options and retirement contributions. Employment at UMMC is contingent upon successful completion of all UMMC employee onboarding requirements, including but not limited to, background check and vaccinations. COVID-19 vaccination is no longer a requirement of employment. Please see the Employee Handbook on the UMMC Intranet (login required) for further information.

Internship Year:

The internship year begins on July 1 and is for a full year, through June 30.

Due Process Statement:

Upon entry to our program, interns receive a copy of our policy and procedures manual which includes information on grievance processes, disciplinary actions (including termination) and addresses issues pertaining to impaired interns. Please contact our program administrator Ashley Smith (agsmith1@umc.edu) to request a copy of our policy and procedures manual.

Equal Opportunity:

The University of Mississippi Medical Center adheres to the principle of equal education and employment opportunity without regard to race, sex, color, religion, marital status, age, national origin, disability or Veteran status. This policy extends to all programs and activities supported by the Medical Center. Under the provisions of Title IX of the Educational Amendments of 1972, the University of Mississippi Medical Center does not discriminate on the basis of sex in its educational programs or activities with respect to admissions or employment.

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Internship Admissions, Support and Initial Placement Data

INTERNSHIP PROGRAM TABLES

Date Program Tables were updated: August 27, 2026

*Note. Programs are not required by the Commission on Accreditation to provide all benefits listed in this table

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Cultural/Recreational Resources

The Jackson metro area and Mississippi have a rich cultural history. Outside of the training program, there are a number of local community-based cultural organizations. Additionally, there are a number of cultural events that occur throughout the year and numerous recreational opportunities available.

(If available, select a location or organization name to visit the accompanying website [external links are subject to change].)

Arts and Culture

Civil Rights Movement/African American History:

• Emmett Till Interpretative Center & Tallahatchie County Courthouse: 158 N. Court St., Sumner, MS; (662) 483-0048
• Margaret Walker Center: Jackson State University
• Medgar Evers Home Museum: Civil Rights leader. 2332 Margaret Walker Alexander Drive, Jackson, MS; (601) 977-7839
• Mississippi Civil Rights Museum:222 North St., Jackson, MS; (601) 576-6800
• Mississippi Freedom Trail: Civil rights trail, To obtain a brochure: (601) 359-3297
• Smith Robertson Museum and Cultural Center: Jackson's first school for African Americans
• Museum of African American History and Culture: 301 Main St., Natchez, MS
• Sumner, Mississippi: A Child's Murder, A Nation's Outrage. Sumner, MS
• Tougaloo College: 500 West County Line Road, Tougaloo (Jackson), MS
• Whitney Plantation Museum: Only museum in Louisiana with an exclusive focus on the lives of enslaved people. 5099 Highway 18, Wallace, LA (halfway between New Orleans and Baton Rouge)
• Alluvial Collective (formerly William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation): University of Mississippi, Oxford, MS

Civil War Sites: 

• Grand Gulf Military Park
• Vicksburg Military Park: 3201 Clay St., Vicksburg

Festivals and Resources Celebrating Music Culture and Arts:

• BB King Museum: Indianola, MS
• Delta Blues Museum: Clarksdale, MS
• Elvis Presley Birthplace: 306 Elvis Presley Drive, Tupelo, MS
• Grammy Museum: Cleveland, MS
• Ground Zero Blues Club: co-owned by actor Morgan Freeman, Clarksdale, MS
• Jimmy Rodgers Museum: 1725 Jimmy Rodgers Drive, Meridian, MS
• King Biscuit Blues Festival: in October at Helena, AR, about 3 ½ hours from Jackson
• Mississippi Delta Blues and Heritage Festival: held in September, Greenville, MS
• Mississippi Blues Trail
• Mississippi Symphony Orchestra
• MSU Riley Center (Grand Opera House/MSU Center for Education and Performing Arts): 22 5^th St., Meridian, MS, 39301; (601) 696-2200
• North Mississippi Hill Country Picnic: focuses on Hill Country Blues, held in June near Holly Springs, MS
• Red's Lounge: authentic juke joint, 395 Sunflower Ave, Clarksdale, MS
• Sunflower River Blues and Gospel Festival: in August, Clarksdale, MS
• Tennessee Williams Home & Welcome Center: 300 Main Columbus, MS 39701; (662) 328-0222
• Walter Anderson Museum of Art: 510 Washington St, Ocean Springs, MS 39564
• Wyatt Waters Gallery: 307 Jefferson St., Clinton, MS 39056

History/Cultural Resources:

• Choctaw Cultural Center: Pearl River, MS
• Dockery Farms: 229 MS-8. Cleveland, MS 38732; (662) 719-1048
• Hot Tamale Trail: Latin American History, MS Delta located from Tunica to Vicksburg
• India Association of Mississippi
• International Museum of Muslim Cultures: 101 East Capitol St., Jackson
• Mississippi Agricultural and Cultural Museum:1150 Lakeland Drive, Jackson
• Mississippi Children's Museum: 2145 Museum Boulevard, Jackson
• Mississippi Museum of Art: 380 South Lamar St, Jackson
• Mississippi Museum of Natural Science: 2145 Riverside Drive, Jackson
• Natchez, MS
• Grand Village of the Natchez Indians
• Windsor Ruins: 15095 Rodney Road, Port Gibson, MS

Recreational/Outdoor Activities

• Barnett Reservoir: Parks, hunting, fishing, boating, swimming, birding, camping; bounded by Rankin, Madison and Hinds counties
• Clark Creek Natural Area: Woodville, MS
• Gulf Islands National Seashore: hiking, biking, bird watching, picnicking, Ocean Springs, MS
• DeSoto National Forest: Tuxachanie Hiking Trail (Wiggins, MS), Black Creek Trail (New Augusta, MS)
• Homochitto National Forest: Clear Springs Recreational Area Trails, near Brookhaven, MS
• Jackson Zoo
• Longleaf Trace: running, biking, hiking, horseback riding, runs 41 miles from Hattiesburg to Prentiss
• Mississippi Farmers Market
• Mississippi Petrified Forest: nature trail, museum, campground, gem fluming, Flora, MS
• Natchez Trace Parkway: scenic road stretching from Natchez, MS to Nashville, TN and running through the Jackson Metro area
• Mississippi State Parks
• Pearl River Waterfowl Refuge and Wildlife Management Area: Highway 43, about 1 mile east of the Natchez Trace
• Multipurpose Trail: 12-mile paved trail for biking, walking and jogging, Ridgeland, MS
• Ridgeland Mountain Biking Trail:10 miles of wooded trails
• Russell C. Davis Planetarium: one of the largest in the country; 201 E. Pascagoula St., Jackson
• Tanglefoot Trail: multipurpose rails to trails runs 43 miles from New Albany, MS to Houston, MS
• Woodall Mountain: highest natural point in MS, near Iuka, MS

Mississippi is known as the "heart of the Bible belt" with a wide variety of Christian organizations – too many to list here. The metro area is also home to many diverse religious organizations, some of which are listed alphabetically below. If you want help locating a religious or spiritual resource we haven't included, please let one of us know.

• Baps Shri Hindu Temple: 2390 Greenway Drive, Jackson, MS
• Beth Israel Congregation: 5315 Old Canton Road, Jackson, MS
• Catholic Diocese of Jackson
• Christian Church Finder
• Guru Tegh Bahadur Sikh Temple: 1087 I-20 Frontage Road, Jackson, MS
• Hindu Temple: 173 Vernon Jones Avenue, Brandon, MS
• Sita Ram Hindu Temple: 1940 US 80, Jackson, MS, (601) 948-1190
• Swaminarayan Hindu Temple: 1753 Old Whitfield Road, Pearl, MS; (601) 448-8599
• Quan Am Tinh Vien Buddhist Temple: 1757 University Boulevard, Jackson

Revision August, 2023

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