What do Canadian Clinical Psychology Interviews Usually Look Like?

[FCP]

Hi Everyone,

 

It is my first time applying, and also about my first week on GradCafe (which is a great source for information).

 

I was wondering what do Canadian Clinical Psychology interviews look like or entail? 

 

I keep hearing about interview weekends, current grad students accommodating visiting students, and other things. I am totally lost on what this all means. 

 

Please, someone give me some insight to the specifics of interviews within clinical psychology.

[FacelessMage]

It seems to vary form school to school. I've only had two interviews so far: SFU and Saskatchewan. Both were phone interviews (SFU has an in-person interview day but I couldn't go because of work). In my interview for Saskatchewan I was asked a lot of questions about my research, mostly about my thesis project for undergrad (I had a fairly unique project, so they wanted to know more about it). They also asked me what unique quality I had that would make me stand out from other applicants, and what qualities I had that would make me a good clinican/researcher (standard interview stuff really, I had easy answers because I've been asked those same questions in job interviews before). And then questions like why you applied, why did you pick those researchers to work with, etc.

 

SFU had similar types of questions (it wasn't focused as much on my research as Saskatchewan). They also had a bunch of ethics scenario questions that I had to answer (these were scary). It didn't really feel the same as the Saskatchewan one did (the interviewer had the TV on in the background and it was distracting!), and it was my first interview so I felt really unprepared.

 

At the end of each interview, they gave me a chance to ask some questions, and then said that they would be in touch soon.

 

Good luck!