Boston Medical Center offers a speech language pathology clinical fellowship (CF), which is a requirement to obtain a degree in speech pathology. As stated by ASHA

"The SLP CF is a mentored professional experience that begins after the completion of academic course work and clinical practicum. The goal of the CF is to allow the Clinical Fellow to transition between being a student enrolled in a communication sciences and disorders (CSD) program and being an independent provider of speech-language pathology clinical services. The purpose of the CF is to integrate and apply the knowledge from academic education and clinical training, evaluate strengths and identify limitations, develop and refine clinical skills consistent with the Scope of Practice in Speech-Language Pathology, and advance the Clinical Fellow from needing constant supervision to being an independent practitioner. The duration of the CF experience requires a minimum of 1,260 hours and a minimum of 36 weeks of full-time experience or its part-time equivalent." 

The first clinical fellowship program for the Speech Language Pathology Department at Boston Medical Center began in 2019. Now, clinical fellows are an important part of the program, where accepted master's level SLP graduates must complete a 12-month program. Previous fellows who have completed the BMC program include:

2019 – 2020
Amy Gottlieb, CCC-SLP

2020 – 2021
Casey Scott, CCC-SLP

Krystal Radnor, CCC-SLP

2021 – 2022
Manisha Gore, CCC-SLP

Eileen Miglio, CCC-SLP

2022 – 2023
Miranda Capomaccio, CCC-SLP

2023 – 2024
Chloe Thorburn, CCC-SLP

2024 – 2025
Elona Meziu Ribari, CCC-SLP-CF

The fellows are fully mentored and intensive training is provided. We have taken many measures to ensure our clinical fellowship program is robust to ensure the fellows meet their clinical goals and the supervisor's goals in order to become an independent clinician. 

Our goal is to teach critical thinking. As Albert Einstein said, "education is not the learning of facts, rather it's the training of the mind to think." 

The clinical fellowship position is posted on the BMC careers website annually, as the position becomes available.

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