Your Name

Speech Pathology Student

[Which year] Bachelor of Speech Pathology student at [University], [City].

[Two or three sentences. Where your clinical experience has been so far, what you are interested in, and how you like to work. Write it the way you would say it out loud.]

Bachelor of Speech Pathology

[University], [City]

[The areas your coursework has covered — adult communication and swallowing, fluency, voice, paediatric practice, and so on.]

Clinical placement

[Area of practice, setting]

[Where]

[What the placement involved and what you were responsible for. Describe the work, not the people.]

  • [Something specific you did, starting with a verb.]
  • [An assessment, framework or approach you actually used.]
  • [Something you changed or adapted, and why.]

University-based clinical learning

[Area of practice]

[University]

[What you developed, and in what area.]

  • [Skill or approach.]
  • [Skill or approach.]

[What the piece of work was about]

[Area of practice · setting]

Situation
[The situation, in a sentence or two. What made it non-obvious?]
Clinical reasoning
[Why you approached it the way you did, and what you ruled out. This is the bit worth writing properly.]
Reflection
[What you would do differently. Optional.]
  • [Skill]
  • [Skill]
  • [Skill]
  • [Measure or framework]
  • [Measure or framework]
  • Literature searching
  • Critical appraisal
  • Applying evidence to clinical decisions
  • [Working with Children Check — Blue Card in QLD, WWCC in NSW and VIC]
  • [First Aid and CPR, if current]
  • [Speech Pathology Australia student membership, if you have it]