Requirements for Admission to the PEP
by College of Professional Psychology
The following four requirements must be met for admission to the PEP:
- Doctoral degree in psychology
- Provision of health services in psychology
- Current psychology license in good standing to engage in the independent practice of psychology
- Successful completion of a post-doctoral program of education in an organized program of intensive didactic instruction
The program of education must be offered by a regionally accredited institution of higher learning, one of the American Psychological Association’s approved sponsors of continuing education, or an organization that is approved to provide continuing education by a state or provincial psychology licensing authority.
The program of education must consist of a minimum of 300 contact hours in the following core areas of instruction: neurosciences, pharma-cology and psychopharmacology, physiology and pathophysiology, physical and laboratory assessment, and clinical pharmacotherapeutics.
