CLINICAL FELLOWSHIP IN ACUTE CARE – Winter 2025
UR Medicine – Strong Memorial Hospital is a leading academic healthcare institution located in Rochester, NY between Lake Ontario and the Finger Lakes region. Strong Memorial Hospital is a Level 1 Trauma Center and Comprehensive Stroke Center accommodating more than 800 acute care beds and growing. Strong Memorial Hospital is a teaching hospital in which interdisciplinary collaboration and patient centered care is valued. Our medical setting offers motivated and committed beginning clinicians an excellent opportunity for professional growth and clinical variety.
The acute care team is seeking a full time, twelve-month clinical fellow to begin January 2025. Our clinical fellowship is structured to provide experience at all levels of acute care in a wide variety of specialty areas including but not limited to: neurology, cardiology, transplant, trauma, oncology, surgical, and hospital medicine. Our goal is to provide new clinicians with a strong foundation of experience and skills to become a well-rounded medical speech-language pathologist. The clinical fellow will become proficient in the completion of Modified Barium Swallow Studies and participate in FEES.
Job Description:
Full time, 40 hours Speech Pathology
January 2025 to December 2025
8AM – 4:30PM; Monday through Friday January- June, then transition to Sunday- Thursday July-December. Some holiday coverage.
Position Summary:
The Speech-Language Pathology Clinical Fellow (CF) will be mentored under the supervision of a Speech Language Pathologist (SLP) who holds a Certificate of Clinical Competence (CCC). This position is responsible for providing diagnostic and therapeutic services to patients across the continuum of scope including swallowing, speech, language, cognition, voice and alternative means of communication across all hospital units.
Minimum Requirements:
· Completion of M.A. or M.S. degree in an accredited speech-language pathology program
· Previous clinical experience providing direct patient care in a medical setting and prior use of electronic medical records (EMR) is preferred.
Application Deadline: August 31, 2024, by midnight EST.
All applications should include the following 3 documents in PDF format. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
1. 1-page cover letter indicating your interest in the acute care fellowship.
2. Resume, not to exceed two pages.
3. A list of three references and their contact information. These references should be able to speak to your academic and/or clinical performance. Please do not send letters of recommendation.
Applicants can send their complete application by e-mail with the subject line: CF Application or via our Indeed posting.
Andrea (Annie) Perkins, M.A., CCC-SLP
Manager of Inpatient Speech-Language Pathology Andrea_Perkins@URMC.Rochester.edu
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