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Learn world-class treatment for swallowing difficulties
During your professional training, you may not have learned how to fully assess and treat patients with swallowing difficulties. Stop feeling uncertain about whether or not you can help them.
Speech and Swallowing Therapy Cambodia and the University of Puthisastra developed Cambodia’s first university course on how to manage and treat swallowing difficulties. The “Foundations of Adult Dysphagia Management” course is open to Cambodian doctors, nurses and physiotherapists.
Graduates receive a Certificate of Dysphagia Management Clinician.
Be confident in your treatment plan for people with swallowing difficulties
Here’s how you can develop your clinical skills to manage swallowing difficulties:
- Get certified in our adult dysphagia management course.
- Be empowered to apply what you learned at your hospital or clinic with supervision from experienced speech-language pathologists.
- Continue your learning through our mentorship program.
Course Requirements
In order to apply for the Foundations of Adult Dysphagia Management course, you and the place you work must meet the following requirements.
Trainees applying for the course must:
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- Be a Cambodian national
- Have a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree (or higher) in medicine or nursing, or have a physiotherapist qualification
- Be currently employed as practicing clinician in a Cambodian clinical setting in Phnom Penh (certified by the Cambodian government) where there are adult patients with swallowing difficulties and undergoing some medical management (e.g. neurological department in acute hospital)
- Have at least two years of clinical experience in adult acute care
- Have support from your chief, clinical lead or manager in your current work setting to attend training and to implement skills in your workplace after the training
- Sign a pre-agreement with workplace regarding usage of skills on completion
The hospital or clinic you work at must have:
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- Enough adult dysphagia patients to allow practice for trainees and necessitate this high level of training. As a guide, this should be a minimum of 2.5 hours of dysphagia-work per week, per trainee
- Appropriate staff member identified for ‘Program Leadership’ as described in our Dysphagia Program Leader outline
- A draft of an implementation plan submitted to SSTC’s Clinical Lead, clearly addressing how the hospital will release trainees for study and how they create a new dysphagia service post training
SSTC’s implementation plan guidance is available in Khmer and English. Contact us for a copy.
To graduate from the course, trainees must:
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- Have a minimum of 85% attendance in all course hours: approximately 75 hours of theory and 110 hours of practice
- Complete these five summative assessments:
- two written theory exams;
- one set of 36 basic clinical competencies;
- one written case study submission;
- one final practicum assessment score (based on performance over the year)
Speech and Swallowing Therapy Cambodia’s Seminars and Workshops
Can’t commit to the university program but still want to learn more about swallowing difficulties? Register for one of our workshops or seminars.
Upcoming events:
- No training events are scheduled at this time. Check back later for new dates.
Before working with Speech Therapy Cambodia, we usually would just put in a nasogastric feeding tube for patients in our hospital with swallowing problems.
[They] helped me to determine a proper diagnosis with a full evaluation… as well as to learn dietary changes and oral and throat exercises to recommend to patients. After training, it helped me to better care for patients and to reduce pneumonia, improve swallowing, and it didn’t have a high rate of putting in NG tubes.”
– Ms. Touch Sengmouy, nurse, neurology department at Khmer-Soviet Friendship Hospital
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