Research Training in Pediatric Psychology

Objective data were sought regarding the best choices of graduateschool, internship, or postdoctoral fellowship for a studentwishing to become a pediatric psychologist competent in research.Approximately 2,500 reference citations were collated from theextant issues of the Journal of Pediatric Psychology. One hundredsixty-six of the individuals cited two or more times as firstauthor of an article or book were also listed in the most recentDirectory of the American Psychological Association. Informationis provided as to the universities where these researchers attendedgraduate school and the university and medical-school settingswhere they are currently employed. These researchers were mostoften trained in clinical, developmental, or experimental psychologyat state universities such as Iowa or Michigan or at privateinstitutions such as Columbia, Stanford, or Yale. The largestaggregations of psychology faculty doing research relevant topediatric psychology seem to be at the medical schools and orpsychology departments of the following universities: Harvard,Iowa, Kansas, North Carolina, Stanford, and Virginia.