Do you feel unfulfilled in your career as a medical SLP, and perhaps a bit confused on how to move forward?

Do you feel completely overwhelmed, overworked, overstressed, yet completely misunderstood and underappreciated in your facility?

Do you feel like you’re riding the therapy hamster wheel unsure if you are even providing good care for your patients?

When you started practicing medical SLP, after grad school, did you get overwhelmed with how much medical SLP information was missing from your graduate education?

Are you feeling a bit angry that you received the same training as clinicians who work with kindergarteners, and now you feel like you have huge gaps in what you need to know to treat life-or-death medical cases? (I'm NOT knocking my pediatric clinicians, we just really, truly work in 2 completely separate worlds!)

If you’ve been working in the field for a while, do you feel frustrated that there’s no *ONE* single centralized source to stay up-to-date on all the latest research and treatments that are coming out every year?

Are you even sure you’re providing the right and best, most up-to-date treatment techniques to your patients?

Are you sick of paying up to $500 for courses that teach you about just one of the many, many conditions you need to stay up-to-date on?

Imagine how much time and frustration you would save if you had immediate access to one centralized location for blind peer-reviewed resources.

Imagine if you had access to several clinical experts and university professors to help guide you in your clinical decision making, with personalized response to your clinical cases.

Imagine if you felt you had the detailed, personalized support you needed to succeed in your practice and your career, from a wide range of experts and fellow clinicians who care deeply about your career development.

Do you think then your patients would receive higher-quality care and actually make progress towards their goals?

Do you think you would get more rewarded and recognized for this progress among your patients?

I created this membership site because I’m passionate about giving medical SLPs the real-life training they need, beyond graduate school, which often doesn’t provide all the resources you’ll need to even do the basic parts of your job.

I saw a huge and unacceptable gap in the education of medical SLPs, and I decided to fill that gap. This site is that effort–and there’s truly nothing else out there like it.

I’m on a mission to change the way medical SLPs are educated and prepared to thrive in their jobs. I hope you’ll join me and so many other forward-thinking clinicians as we advance this mission together.

No other course or program will give you the diverse, high quality, done-for-you materials that are blind peer reviewed by university professors.

The MedSLP Collective provides the materials, resources, and webinars registered for ASHA CEUs, that you vote on combined with access to experts in all areas to answer your toughest clinical cases with compassion and evidence.

The MedSLP Collective helps stressed out, overwhelmed, and misunderstood medical SLPs become the respected expert in their facility and work towards career fulfillment.

Now, you might think that you’ve been in this field long enough and you have enough experience or maybe you had a stellar medical SLP program that you don’t need any done-for-you resources.

But the research is constantly evolving, and it will take you a heck of a lot longer to dig through the research to find the answers and you still might not find the best evidence out there for that specific patient.

Believe me, I’m a 4-time ASHA ACE Award winner. I didn’t think I would need any more CEUs either.

But the reality is, there are so many aspects of our field that we should know about and keep up to date with: dysphagia, aphasia, voice disorders, motor speech disorders, cognitive communication, pediatrics, traumatic brain injury, NICU, to name a few.

Let’s say you have a $500 budget per year for CEUs. If you have a more advanced practice, it’s so easy to spend that money on a highly specialized course, such as a new technique that can help with swallowing for a very specific patient population. Often this is a population you’ll only encounter sporadically in your practice.

In contrast, I believe it’s best to invest your CEU budget in a program that will keep you up-to-date on the latest peer-reviewed research on nearly every condition you might encounter in your practice.

As you know, the field is advancing and evolving so rapidly. Only 5 years ago, people were listening to the swallow with a stethoscope.  

Imagine that! A practice that had been used for years, now feels like a “stone age” practice, since the development of videofluoroscopy and endoscopic swallowing evaluations. (Except sadly some are still using this “stone age” practice today!)

Each year, so many new discoveries and treatments are coming out–it’s almost insane to not keep abreast of those. Yet there are few centralized resources in our field to do so.

Until now.

Do you want to wait until you have a patient in front of you expecting that you have the knowledge in that area to help them?

Or do you want to know how to provide them the best, evidence-based, most cutting-edge treatment, because you’ve received detailed information about that treatment automatically in this site each week?

Forget Clinical Fellowship…

This is about CAREER FULFILLMENT

You see, I started out my career working in schools. I had zero clinical hours and zero externships in the medical field, yet I kept being pulled in that direction.

I was fortunate enough to have awesome CF supervisors who pushed me to shadow some SLPs in skilled nursing, but once my C.F. was over and I accepted a job in skilled nursing…

I was drowning.

Like not even up-a-creek-without-a-paddle drowning…

Like trying to climb-up-Niagara-Falls drowning.

I embarked on the long and arduous journey of self study and educating myself on countless research articles, and wasted so many hours weeding through CEU courses and papers that weren’t really even relevant to my particular situation.

My wonderfully supportive boss sent me to so many CEU courses, some of which were great, and some of which were a total waste of time. Some I just couldn’t use in my facility, or they were so focused on a specific population. And honestly? Some were just way over my head.

Not only was it a huge waste of time and money for me… but then I think of my patients.

They came to me expecting me to use the highest quality evidence available to help them achieve their goals of regaining their speech, language, or swallowing abilities.

Not only could it have been a gigantic waste of time for them to come get speech therapy from someone who only had sub-par training in some areas, but what about the cost?

I remember the days of filling out the appeals of denied therapy and wondering what the heck I was doing so wrong that my patients weren’t making progress like they should, their services were denied reimbursement, and I felt like the biggest failure ever and on the brink of total and complete burnout. 

And then I found like minded colleagues on social media, which turned out to be a blessing and a curse all at the same time.

At first I was on cloud nine that so many people were seeking the answers that I was looking for as well, but then it almost became a game of Scrabble.

I found myself more conflicted than ever, because everyone had the best of intentions, but who can tell who actually knows what they’re talking about behind a social media handle?

We all try so hard to do the best for our patients, but there’s no peer review process online, no way to verify the evidence unless the poster provides several research articles, in which case we’re back to square 1 of spending hundreds of hours pouring through research papers that may or may not even be applicable to me or my patients after spending hundred of dollars just to access the articles, which makes this game not so fun anymore.

And who suffers most? Our patients.

One day I woke up with 17 unread papers I had collected, sitting on my desk. My gut sense was that 1 or 2 would be really valuable, applicable and relevant to me. 10 would be so-so – and only useful if I did additional research (which would of course yield additional papers to read, and the desk doom grows!!). And for 5, once I spent the time reading them, I would see that they had been a total waste of time. (Of course, I only see that after those hours had irretrievably been wasted down the toilet bowl of time.)

And this price tag for culling this few true gems? $500 in fees for downloading article individual articles. Plus hours and hours of wading.

That morning, two simple words came into my head:

“No thanks.”

I just felt completely done with that common method of advancing my medical SLP knowledge.

I looked online for a centralized resource that would collect, curate, and deliver to me only the most relevant information that an in-the-field clinician such as myself would need, in an easily-digestible format.

Do you think I found anything even close to that? Heck no, not even close.

So, I did what any enterprising girl like myself would do…

I decided to create the very resource I needed!

Yes, ladies and gentlemen, I’m my own best customer!

As much as I LOVE providing this service for you, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t need it and want it just as much as you do. It just makes my life so much easier.

It’s like that ad for hair growth products on TV, where the owner of the company shows how it works on him.

Except, instead of what’s growing is not strands of hair of a man’s wispy head, but deep knowledge over the whole breadth of your career.

And when you gain this cutting-edge knowledge yourself, and the confidence that goes with it, you know who wins the most?

YOUR PATIENTS

Tomorrow morning when you wake up, you will be in one of two states. You will have either signed up for the Medical SLP Collective today, in which case you know that you’re investing $29 a month–the cost of a so-so meal for two at a Thai restaurant–into providing the best care you can imagine for your patients. Thereby rapidly advancing your career as well as your patients get better outcomes. And all you had to give for that was one Thai meal a month!

(Or maybe you don’t have to give anything up at all, as I feel pretty confident $29 is within your range, if it’s something really important, like this is.)

Or, the other possibility is that you wake up tomorrow not having taken the step to massively uplevel your career and your patients outcomes.

And every time you see a patient going forward, there will be that nagging feeling: “Do I really know I’m giving this patient the best, most up-to-date, relevant and evidence-based treatment, based on the latest peer-reviewed research? Or am I perhaps giving my patient that “it’s just what people do around here” treatment from 5-10 years ago whose research behind it is getting more stale than that bagel you forgot to take off your counter 2 days ago.

In fact, we now know that some of the treatment techniques from even 5 years ago are harmful.

Imagine that–you might be giving treatments to your patients that are actually harmful — but who around you is going to tell you that that new research has been developed? The doctors, nurses and administrators at the hospital who barely distinguish what you do from just being the diet police? Do you think they’re up on the latest research in your field?

I’m going to come out and say it. I think anyone who doesn’t want to invest $29 a month to make sure they’re giving their best care to their patients, is really missing out on an opportunity to make their practice the absolute best it can be, for their patients and for themselves, all for an extremely reasonable price in comparison to what you get.*

From talking to thousands of SLPs over the years, I know that the #1 reason SLPs leave their job is that the Directors are minute-hungry and are forcing patients to take more minutes than the patient can tolerate. Which is in fact an ethical violation, perhaps even rising to the level of out-and-out insurance fraud. (Of course, we know that Directors would NEVER violate ethics or fraudulently inflate minutes to increase their bottom line, right?)

I know the moral character of members of the MedSLP Collective, and I know that ANY ethical violations or fraud in your surrounding environment erode your confidence in your workplace. And since these ethical violations are so commonplace in modern insurance-driven healthcare settings, it drives you crazy and makes you want to leave the career you’ve worked so hard to create.

This is a horrible situation I won’t tolerate, and I’ve worked hard to create a solution for you.

Using the resources in the MedSLP Collective, you can show the Director that there’s a whole population of people in your facility who desperately need SLP minutes, and aren’t getting them.

For example, many SLPs believe there is little they can do for people with dysarthria, and thus, they don’t recommend treatment for these patients. However, in the last few years, a wide variety of different treatment techniques have been developed–and if you haven’t been following the research (in all that extra free-time you have available as an SLP), you might not know about these techniques.

The same is true for people with dementia. These people often have difficulty communicating effectively, but it’s widely assumed in our field that there’s little that can be done to help these patients. However, it is within our scope of practice to evaluate and treat communication breakdowns with patients with dementia.

In other words, there’s all these patients passing through hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, home health, etc., who could legitimately use the minutes that Directors are so obsessed with racking-up. If the Directors can be persuaded to allow you to use minutes with these underserved patients who really need them, then they’ll stop trying to push minutes on patients who can’t tolerate all of them. Fraud solved–and it was you who solved it.

In the MedSLP Collective, you will have 24/7 support, which will allow you to solve these problems in your workplace, be the hero for your underserved patients, and make your workplace feel great again, instead of the moral swampland that it now is.

I promise you, the support alone is worth much more than an entire year’s worth of the MedSLP Collective membership fee, and it’s just one of the many, many things you get when you join.

Are you ready?