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​​Course Overview

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Six hours of online training aimed at building your assessing clinician skills following on from your previous Foundation level training. This course is interactive and will allow for you to ask questions and share your challenges and discuss how you can progress your competency development. 

We will refer to elements of our SVS FEES DOPS framework document (direct observation of procedural skills), which will provide you with a framework for detailed feedback and a useful documentation for continuing your competency development.

Content will include:

Revision of normal and abnormal anatomy and function.

The comprehensive FEES examination (Langmore FEES Protocol)

Interpretation of swallow events

Review of images: critical appraisal of the examination

Identifying impairment

Formulating a management plan

FEES reporting: rating scales and report writing

Interactive interpretation of images

Personal development planning using formative assessment frameworks

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Course Outcomes:

By the end of the course delegates will have: 

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• Theoretical skills in carrying out FEES

• An improved understanding of normal and abnormal anatomy and the skills to describe and manage these findings

• FEES interpretation skills including use of rating scales

• An understanding of how to incorporate FEES findings into dysphagia management

• Skill in writing a FEES report

• An outline plan in place to progress their competencies in FEES in accordance with the RCSLT Competency Framework

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