2024-2025 Clinical Fellowship Announcement
CLINICAL FELLOWSHIP YEAR (CFY) IN MEDICAL SPEECH-LANGUAGE PATHOLOGY
The CW Bill Young/Bay Pines (Florida) VA Healthcare System announces the availability of (1) Clinical Fellowship Year (CFY) opportunity. Recruitment will begin immediately. Applications will be accepted through February 9th, 2024.
Must be a US Citizen and must be fully vaccinated before beginning employment and/or training rotations.
The appointment is for 12 months, 2080 hours, with a planned start date in late summer/early fall 2024. There is a stipend of $41,206 paid to the selected candidate.
Bay Pines is among the busiest of VA Healthcare Systems nationwide. The Speech Pathology Section is comprised of 4.5 FTEE and is part of the Audiology and Speech Pathology Service. Veterans are referred from Medicine, Surgery, Geriatrics and Extended Care (Community Living Center), and the Mental Health and Behavioral Sciences Service as well as from throughout the Healthcare System which extends to Ft. Myers and Naples to the south.
The Bay Pines campus is located on Florida’s Gulf Coast in the Tampa Bay area, just northwest of downtown St. Petersburg, south of Clearwater, and west across the Bay from Tampa. The campus consists of 31+ buildings on 337 acres including in addition to the medical center, a regional office and national cemetery. Come enjoy a beautiful work campus, and such local attractions as Rays baseball, Sunken Gardens, and the Dali Museum, in a temperate climate filled with year-round opportunities for indoor and outdoor fun.
The fellowship will offer inpatient and outpatient experience with diagnosis and treatment of swallowing, communication, and cognitive disorders, as well as experience with post-laryngectomy and TE prostheses care.
All applications are due by 3pm EST on Friday, February 9th, 2024; interviews will be conducted via TEAMS and limited to the top 3-5 applicants. We plan to begin scheduling the week of February 26th, 2024.
Interested applicants should submit the following by e-mail (preferably as a single PDF file)
- A letter of professional/career objectives
- Vitae/Resume
- Official or unofficial graduate transcripts
- Two letters of recommendation
Submit application materials to:
Tetina Kinney, M.S., CCC-SLP
Speech Pathology Supervisor
CW Bill Young (CWY) Bay Pines VAMC
Tetina.Kinney@va.gov
FAX: (727) 398-9501
PHONE: (727) 398-6661 ext: 15161