Externship in Medical Speech-Language Pathology

School of Medicine

This course is a full-time Summer clinical practicum occurring either in May or August. The focus of this practicum is to provide student experience in the identification, assessment, and intervention of medical speech-language pathology diagnoses. Students will be placed in a combination of VUMC Acute Care, VUMC Outpatient Swallowing, and Vanderbilt Voice Center clinical placements. Placements will occur Monday through Friday for up to 8 hours per day. Placements across these different clinical opportunities will be individualized for each student based on their background, training goals, and the availability of student slots within each program. Every effort will be made to try to accommodate each student's existing academic schedule (e.g. any other classes, required meetings or training activities); but it is understood that the full-time summer externship is a requirement of the Medical SLP Specialty Track and so must be a priority during May/August.