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What is the difference between a PhD and a PsyD program?

April 26, 2017difference PHD program PsyD

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What is the difference between a PhD and a PsyD program?

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A PhD program is a research based program based on the scientist-practitioner model. PsyD programs follow the practitioner-scholar model. So what does this mean? Well…PhD programs typically require much more involvement in research than PsyD programs. In a PsyD program your training is aimed at being more of consumer than conductor of research, but that does not mean there isn’t research in PsyD programs, just the focus is more on clinical work.