Product: EndNote

Author: Tracey Smith, M. A.

University of Utah / Dept. of Psychology

Discipline: Clinical Psychology

Contact: Tracey Smith, M. A., University of Utah Dept. of Psychology, Salt Lake City, UT

Our program has preliminary exams which we are required to take after receiving the Masters degree and before filing for candidacy for the doctoral degree. These exams consist of selecting one of two questions from each of six areas in clinical psychology: research specialty area, assessment, ethics, psychotherapy, research methods, and psychopathology. The questions are new each year and can cover any topic that has been covered in the last five years in any of five major journals from our field. Each examinee is given two questions and then has 48 hours to write a lucid, well written, and conceptually sound paper of no more than 20 pages in length WITH REFERENCES IN PUBLISHED APA STYLE. Needless to say this is a daunting task and anything that can give you time to focus on the conceptual information in your answer rather than in mundane tasks like formatting references is a blessing. EndNote allowed me to do just this. I passed my preliminary exams, the references were a snap to create, and I tell every student who is about to embark on the preliminaries "Buy EndNote and use it before you take the exams." Thanks Niles for a great piece of software.