111 – Contemplating a Move to Medical SLP? Some Things to First Consider
Swallow Your Pride Podcast
Theresa Richard, MA, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
4.8 • 899 Ratings
🗓️ 30 October 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
We discuss the ASHA Code of Ethics as it pertains to treating patients with proper training, five areas that the learner will need further training in, and five ways to obtain further training in the medical SLP field.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Swallow Your Pride Podcast. I'm your host Teresa Richard. I'm a board certified specialist in Swallow. your there is out there about how we assess and treat swallowing disorders. This |
| 0:24.3 | podcast is all about bringing everyone together, getting on the same page, being |
| 0:28.5 | open to new ideas, and using evidence-based treatment strategies for our |
| 0:32.4 | patients with dysphagia. So let's get into it. |
| 0:39.2 | Hello everybody. I am so grateful to be here. This is such a cool thing that we're doing. |
| 0:46.0 | So first of all, let me introduce myself. My name is Teresa Richard and I am board certified in swallowing disorders so I am pretty |
| 0:56.0 | deeply entrenched in the medical SLP world I'll also give you my disclosures |
| 1:01.8 | now I do have a podcast called the Swallow Your Pride Podcast. |
| 1:06.8 | I also have a membership site that provides education, mentorship, and ASHA CEOs called the Med-SLP Collective. |
| 1:17.0 | And then I also own a mobile fees company called Mobile Disphasia Diagnostics. |
| 1:22.0 | So I do get a salary or I do get paid |
| 1:27.1 | through those those three ways. For my non-financial disclosures I am a part of the American Board of Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders, social media committee. |
| 1:39.0 | Yeah, so I think that's it for my disclosures. |
| 1:43.0 | Oh my gosh, I want to thank Vanita so much for asking me to be on here. |
| 1:48.0 | This is such the coolest thing ever. |
| 1:50.0 | And yeah, so I guess I want to start out with talking about my story because you know I think life has a funny way of taking you different places and you know going in different directions and I just |
| 2:05.1 | always thought I was gonna didn't always think I changed my major a few times in college but |
| 2:09.3 | once I found speech pathology I thought for sure I'd work with kids and I thought I'd work in the schools and I even |
| 2:15.8 | did a master's thesis transcribing doing language transcriptions and so I just thought that was the way I was going to go and I got into my clinical |
| 2:26.2 | fellowship and I did not like the schools in fact I hated it. It may have something to do with the state I was living in at the time, |
| 2:36.0 | had no caseload cap, so I had about 100 kids on my caseload as a CF. |
| 2:41.1 | So as you could tell, I was probably losing my mind. |
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