{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Inside SLP","title":"The Oregon Workaround","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1927,"description":"For the first 20 episodes of Inside SLP, we explored the history of speech-language pathology and the systems that shape our profession today. We looked at how licensure, certification, clinical training, and professional identity evolved over time, and how decisions made decades ago continue to influence clinicians, students, employers, and patients.\nAs we begin this next chapter of the podcast, we're turning our attention to a recent controversy in Oregon that sparked questions far beyond a single state licensing board.\nAt first glance, it looked like a debate about the CFY.\nBut as I dug deeper, it became clear that the conversation was really about something much larger: Where clinical training happens, who is responsible for it, and what assumptions we've inherited about how new clinicians become competent practitioners.\n\nThis isn't a call to action, and it isn't an attempt to tell you what to think.\nIt's an invitation to better understand the systems we're all participating in, and to consider what role each of us plays in what comes next.\n\nWe explore:\nThe CFY, the CCC, and licensure: Why so many clinicians struggle to untangle where one system ends and another begins.\nThe hidden training model: How the profession came to rely on employers and workplace mentorship to help complete the transition from student to clinician.\nThe CFY lottery: Why two clinicians can have dramatically different fellowship experiences while meeting the same requirements.\nBeyond Oregon: How a proposed workaround to a Medicare billing problem uncovered deeper questions about training, competency, and professional responsibility.\nGuests:\nKerry Mandulak, PhD, CCC-SLP, immediate Past President of the Oregon Speech-Language & Hearing Association (OSHA)\nand Professor and Chair of the Graduate Admissions Committee at Pacific University in the school of Communication Sciences and Disorders\nJordan Tinsley, PhD, CCC-SLP, current President of OSHA and Clinical Assistant Professor at Pacific...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/Uwvc3YpXBq3-mZroiH9iArBS1kVLj8rLaayQr8ctqvc/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS81YzE4/YzFiYTRlNGVjNTZj/ODA1MzIwOTg5Y2Q0/YWNjOS5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}