School of Medicine

Among the unique features of the PAU-Stanford Psy.D. Consortium is the context in which students are trained. In addition to its research and teaching facilities, the Stanford University Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences is the home of the largest clinic at the Stanford University Medical Center. Over 40,000 patient visits per year are completed at the Department of Psychiatry.

The PAU-Stanford PsyD Consortium is a practitioner-scholar program in which supervised clinical experience is an integral component of doctoral training. The Consortium provides extensive practicum experience for doctoral students in diverse clinical settings throughout the San Francisco Bay Area. The Consortium is primarily generalist in approach but students have the opportunity to build their chosen specialities by training in varied practicum settings.

The PAU-Stanford Psy.D. Consortium requires all students to complete a minimum two-thousand (2,000) hour supervised professional internship. These hours fulfill the pre-doctoral internship required by the State of California and other states (subject to individual state licensing boards), among other requirements for eligibility to sit for the licensing examination. This portion of the curriculum is intended to ensure that every student receives practical experience germane to his/her development as a professional clinical psychologist.

Was the program name changed from PGSP-Stanford to PAU-Stanford?

The Consortium faculty includes a number of distinguished faculty from both Palo Alto University and the Stanford University School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, offering a wide range of research interests and clinical specializations. 

PGSP-Stanford Consortium students are required to complete a clinical dissertation project, which is defined by faculty as demonstrative of an applied and in-depth scholarly work, that contributes to the field of professional psychology. Doctoral Projects are varied in format and content, but generally focus on applied issues in the field of clinical psychology. Third year students participate in a dissertation research seminar for two quarters that is supervised by four Stanford faculty members.

Students entering the PAU-Stanford Psy.D. Consortium in Fall 2017 and later will complete the curriculum below. All courses are required unless specifically identified as “Elective”.

First Year Courses
Second Year Courses
Third Year Courses
Fourth Year Courses
Fifth Year Courses
Other Courses

First Year Courses