Beyond Fear to Find Your Bliss: Growing Yourself and Transforming SLP Education

Dr. Julie Barkmeier-Kraemer discusses the transformative impact of learning from failure, managing self-expectations, and imposter syndrome. She draws from her experience as a clinician, instructor, researcher, administrator, and more to provide insights into developing oneself and revolutionizing education for speech-language pathologists. With brief tangents about cranial nerves and clinical swallow evaluations, the conversation navigates topics such as critical thinking, the strengths of case-based learning, and viewing clinical supervision as a partnership.


Julie Barkmeier-Kraemer, PhD, CCC-SLP, ASHA Honors
Dr. Julie Barkmeier-Kraemer is a tenured professor in the Department of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery, Director of the Voice, Airway, Swallowing Translational (VAST) Research Lab, Clinic Director for the Utah Voice Disorders Center, and Adjunct faculty to the Department of Communication Sciences and Disorders (CSD) at the University of Utah (U of U). She has enjoyed faculty positions at the University of Arizona and UC Davis prior to joining the faculty at the University of Utah. She has also enjoyed several administrative and leadership roles through the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), ASHFoundation, Dysphagia Research Society (DRS), International Parkinson and Movement Disorders Society (MDS), Feeding Matters, Dysphonia International, and the National Institutes of Health. She has participated as a research faculty mentor through the ASHA Pathways, ASHA Lessons for Success and the Grant Review and Reviewer Training (GRRT) programs and also enjoyed teaching, training, and collaborating with colleagues from multiple disciplines as well as working with students from undergraduate to graduate school and junior faculty levels.

Chapters

• 0:00 Intro Music
• 1:29 Dr. Julie Barkmeier-Kraemer
• 3:20 Imposter Syndrome
• 6:50 Feel the fear, but keep going; learning from failure
• 10:08 Changes from the VA with Dr. Adrienne Perlman; A catalyst for a rich career; Blending clinic, instruction, and administration
• 18:30 What is SLP missing from the Health Sciences, and what can we learn from physician training?
• 25:53 Strengths of case-based learning, and limitations in access to healthcare systems training
• 32:30 Models of learning that are more integrated
• 37:35 Critical thinking and losing a mentality of unrealistic expectations for self; undergraduate education and making learning more fun.
• 43:43 Tangent on cranial nerves and the clinical swallow evaluation
• 46:18 Problem solving: Patients don’t always fit recipes
• 49:53 Supervision as a partnership
• 55:46 Parting words
• 57:52 Outro Music