Description: One-week FEES immersion clinical program with patients in medical facilities to improve FEES clinical competency for qualified SLPs.
Location:
- Nashville, TN -travel to facilities with SASS clinicians to assess referred patients.
- Onsite: Onsite hospital training with SASS instructor with referred patients.
  - Trainee must be allowed to commit to one-week (40-hours) of training without other clinical duties.
Procedures: Complete a minimum 10 patient-FEES procedures - chart review, equipment setup, food stimuli setup, scope insertion, direct complete study procedure, endoscope/equipment cleaning, study scoring, analysis, interpretation, and completing concise 2-page (maximum) report. Usually 2 to 4 hour-process per patient.
Supervision: One-on-one direct supervision/mentoring by SASS instructors.
Qualifications: To qualify, the presumptive trainee must:
- first complete the SASS Basic FEES Training Course. FEES training obtained from other training sources is not acceptable due to differences in training information and clinical methodologies;
- second, contact Dr. Matt Ward (Tnvolunteer81@gmail.com) for more information and to reserve training week; &
- third, after reserving training dates with Dr. Ward, register for competency training on the SASS website: www.sasspllc.com/fees-competency-program-registration/ and pay tuition fees.

Tuition and Costs: $3500.00
- In Nashville, additional costs to the trainee for accommodations, travel, and meals
- Onsite, accommodations, travel, and meals are in addition to the basic tuition cost.
- Tuition payment is made at the time of registration by individual credit care, sponsor-credit card, or sponsor-invoiced payment.