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Private On-Site Training Course Review

“Tristar Skyline Medical Center had the pleasure of working with Dr. Fisher and Nashville Speech & Swallowing in both 2024 and in 2025. Our hospital was just initiating its FEES program…She provided sound and professional feedback that helped our employees to gain much insight into the handling of the scope and completing the diagnostics thoroughly. Dr. Fisher is so supportive and so knowledgeable it was easy for our Speech pathologist to learn a great deal from her.  Her years of experience with FEES helped our staff to gain confidence in a challenging diagnostic.  Skyline Medical Center will be using Dr. Fisher again later in 2025 to complete competency training for four more speech pathologists to add more depth to our FEES program at Skyline Medical Center.  We wouldn’t think about using anyone else to accomplish competency training for our staff other than Dr. Jamie Fisher!” - Gretchen Miller, MBA, OTR/L, Administrative Director of Rehab Services, Tristar Skyline Medical Center Hospital

Comprehensive FEES (flexible endoscopic evaluation of swallowing) Competency Training from start to finish, that covers and supervises participants through everything to be accomplished before, during, and after the FEES procedure.  FEES Competency Training is conducted Onsite at your facility.

Course Description

A practical training course designed for Speech-Language Pathologists to engage with abnormal patient population to gain skills and competency with FEES in the areas of anatomy/physiology, normal and abnormal swallowing, endoscopy procedures and protocols, implementation of evidence-based practice, FEES assessment, analysis, scoring, interpretation, report writing, providing recommendations, and consultations. Competency training with direct supervision and feedback provided.

Course OBJECTIVE

1)  Identify normal and abnormal anatomy utilizing FEES.

2)  Identify normal and abnormal swallow physiology/functions utilizing FEES.

3)  Perform endoscopy procedures and protocols necessary for evidence-based practice utilizing FEES.

4)  Perform FEES procedures with abnormal patient population utilizing FEES equipment to assess swallow function.

5)  Perform analysis, scoring, interpretation, report writing, and providing recommendations from FEES assessment.