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Sub. :-
Compulsory Rotational Internship Training Program for undergraduates who have
passed final BASLP/B.Sc.HLS/BASLP (New) Examination
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It is hereby notified for the information of all concerned
that the Academic Council at its meeting held on 09/01/2006 has accepted one
year Internship Training Programme for Final year passed out BASLP / B.Sc.HLS /
BASLP (New) candidates under the Faculty of Allied Health Sciences as per
Appendix ‘A’.
Date :
22/04/2008
Place : Nashik
Sd/-
(Dr. S. H.
Fugare)
Offg.
Registrar
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Appendix
“A” |
Compulsory
Rotational Internship Training Program
for undergraduates
who
have passed final BASLP/B.Sc. HLS/BASLP (New) Examination
A.
1 GENERAL
Internship is a phase of training where in a candidate is expected to conduct actual Audiology and Speech–Language Pathology practice, with fair independence in clinical decision making in routine and special cases, so that at the end of Internship he/she is capable of independent assessment and management of individuals with speech-language and hearing disorders.
The internship program shall mainly focus on practicing clinical practical skills during the period of the course, independently during internship.
2. RULES AND REGULATIONS:
1.
The
Dean/Principal/Director of the College/Institution concerned shall be
responsible for implementation of the program.
Further, it shall be his/her responsibility to issue Internship
Completion Certificate to a candidate after being satisfied that a candidate
has completed the training programme successfully in prescribed
disciplines. The Head of the
College/Institution concerned can, however, delegate the responsibility of
co-ordinating the program to the Course Co-ordinator or Head of one of the
Departments.
2.
Every
candidate passing the UG Final Year examination will be required to undergo the
minimum one-year compulsory internship to the satisfaction of the Head
of the College/Institution and the University so as to be eligible for the
award of the Degree of Bachelor Audiology and Speech Language Pathology
[BASLP]. In the event of shortage or
unsatisfactory work, the appropriate authorities shall suitably extend the
period of the internship.
3.
It
shall be binding on the interns to follow strictly the code of conduct
prescribed by the Institution/University/Government for the regulation of the
conduct of a student in the State of
4.
The
University shall issue a provisional passing certificate on declaration of the
result of Final BASLP / B.Sc. HLS / BASLP (New) examination to successful
candidates.
5.
The
Heads of the Colleges/Institutions concerned shall commence the
internship-training programme as soon as the results are declared, but in no
case later than 15 days from the date of declaration of results.
6.
The
Head of the Department or the Internship Programme Co-ordinator shall maintain
separate file of records of clinical hours earned during the earlier years,
postings, conduct of evaluation, reports etc. for each individual student to be
produced on demand by University authorities.
It will be the responsibility of the HOD to submit the relevant records
to the Head of the Institution and the University as and when called for.
7.
All postings of
the internship shall be done at the discretion of the Head of the
Department/Institution to meet the clinical hour requirement spelt out in the
curriculum vis-à-vis those already earned by the candidate. The College/Institution shall maintain
year-by-year clinical practicum record in respect of each candidate on the lines
specified in the curriculum. The head of
the Institute/College should ensure submission of the list of
institution/organisations/hospitals (within/outside the city or state) where
the interns will be posted along with goals/specific skills to be achieved
during posting.
Proviso: Interns shall
obtain a certificate of satisfactory completion, evaluation reports and also
get the entries in the logbook/log sheet countersigned by the relevant
administrative authorities/supervisors.
The Head of the Department or Internship Co-ordinator should further
countersign this.
8.
The payment of stipend or otherwise to an intern shall be the
responsibility of the Institution concerned and their policy makers.
9.
The interns shall be entrusted with the clinical responsibilities under
direct supervision of professionals as far as possible, who are legally
qualified to undertake that particular responsibility. As far as possible, interns shall not be
working independently nor issue any clinical reports regarding assessments and
therapy without being countersigned by the qualified supervisor.
10. It shall be mandatory
for an intern to maintain the record of procedures done/assisted/observed and
the hours earned by him/her on day-to-day basis in the prescribed format in a
log book/sheet (Appendix 1). Failure to produce the log book/sheet
complete in all respects duly certified by the authority concerned to the head
of the Institution at the end of the Internship Training Programme may result
in cancellation of his/her performance in any or all areas of internship
training programme. A photocopy of the same may be maintained at respective
Institution/organisation.
11. It is mandatory for each
candidate to fulfil the minimum requirements in each area assigned for the
internship period to be eligible for the Head of the Institution to issue the
Internship Completion Certificate. If a
candidate fails to meet these prescribed requirements in any of the areas, he
shall be required to repeat the posting in the respective area to the extent of
shortfall. Only after completing the
requirements after repeat posting in the areas concerned, the candidate will be
eligible to obtain Internship Training Completion Certificate.
12. Leave of absence. No kind of leave of absence is permitted
during the period of internship except to a total of 6 days with prior
permission on sufficient grounds.
However, in case of leave of absence on medical grounds, the internship
programme for such candidates shall be extended corresponding to the period of
absence.
B. OBJECTIVES
The internship is a phase of training designed to serve several purposes
and achieve certain objectives. They
are:
- To gain proficiency in evaluating children and adults with language disorders, various speech disorders, voice disorders and other related disorders independently.
- To acquire/to gain proficiency in selecting appropriate intervention strategies, setting appropriate long term and short term goals and also executing the appropriate strategies during the intervention program to achieve maximum communicative competence.
- To strengthen the skills in providing counseling to clients, family and significant others such as employees, teacher’s etc. on issues related to hearing aid usages.
- To develop skills of promoting public awareness, social responsibility, community involvement, providing services through camps and school screening programs for speech, language, hearing disorders as required in semi urban and rural areas.
- Develop appropriate and need based informal tools for assessment and therapeutic requirements.
- To initiate individual and group sessions focusing on prevention, early identification of speech, language and hearing disorders, and promoting community based rehabilitation.
- To develop skills to function as an essential member of trans/ multidisciplinary team in existing socio-cultural set up.
- To facilitate the understanding of professional responsibilities and ethical practice including:-
· The rights and dignity of patients.
· Consultation and referrals to other professionals.
· Ethical conduct and professional obligation to peers/colleagues, patients, families and community at large.
C INTERNSHIP
SCHEDULE /POSTING :
1. Each candidate will have
compulsory postings of six Months in the Parent Institution during
the one year of internship. Out of left period at least one
month of community/field work shall be compulsory. The parent institutes shall identify the
specific skills expected to be learnt (that will enable him/her to conduct the
same in his/her actual practice so that s/he may become capable of functioning
independently as a professional) in the centres where the interns are proposed
to be posted.
- Parent Institution
- Hospital Set up or
hearing aid fitting centre/Cochlear Implant Centre
- Special School/Rehabilitation centres
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District Rehabilitation Centres/ Rural Posting
- Centres run by NGO/Charitable Trusts.
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Defence establishments and occupational health units.
-
Speciality Clinics
2. Criteria of Centres for Posting
a)
Recognition: Supervisor(s) available should have recognition from
professional bodies concerned pertaining to the intended field/skills such as
RCI/MCI.
b)
Infrastructure: The centre should have infrastructure
in terms of space, equipment and/or material adequate to benefit the interns.
c)
The centre should have a minimum of 60-75 clients (new/follow-up cases)
of the intended category per week.
3. Orientation: Two days mandatory orientation programme
should be conducted before the placements of the interns to acquaint them
regarding the rules, regulations, duties, etc.
D EVALUATION :
Evaluation system shall assess the skills of
candidates while performing clinical procedures over the patients during the
course of assessment and/or treatment and during the posting in that area. List of mandatory skills relevant to each
area which need to be tested at the end of ITP and grades be given are given in
Appendix A. (List of these skills
can be reviewed from time to time and updated).
Each skill carries a maximum of 5 marks and an intern's performance is
considered unsatisfactory if he/she scores less than 3 marks.
Gradation of each skill should be done as under :-
a) Poor 1
b) Below
average 2
c) Average 3
d) Above
average (Good) 4
e) Excellent 5
Performing 5 or more skills with required proficiency
(i.e. grades of 3 or more) in a particular area and to the satisfaction of the
supervisor will be considered satisfactory performance.
If a candidate is declared as unsuccessful
due to unsatisfactory performance in any of the areas/Dept., he/she shall be
required to repeat the posting in continuation in that area/Centre for a period
of minimum of 25% of the period of posting in that centre or as deemed fit by
Head of the Institution/College.
Only after satisfactory performance of the
skill during subsequent evaluation, the intern shall be eligible for the award
of internship completion certificate.
It shall be based on the observations of the
supervisors of the centres regarding punctuality, quality and quantity of
work. The final grading shall be done on
the basis of records/performance data book maintained by the interns Appendix
B. It is, however, to bring to the
notice of the student at the earliest any deficiency in these area so as to give
an opportunity to rectify the same.
Notes of such communications shall be maintained and reviewed at the
time of final assessment.
The supervisor or any other authority in
charge of the Department/Centre where the interns are posted shall communicate
the satisfactory completion of the internship (or otherwise) to the Internship
Programme Coordinator/authority concerned in the format given in Appendix C. If the internship completion is deemed
unsatisfactory, the reason/s thereof shall be recorded and communicated to the
coordinator concerned. The supervisor/s,
if they so wish, may also assess and/or rate the interns in various general and
specific skills in the area concerned on or before the completion of posting
and communicate the same to the Internship coordinator/authority concerned for
feedback purposes and for further refinement of the programme.
E TRANSFER
OF INTERNS:
As per the Academic
Council Resolution No. 446/2008 dated 28/12/2007:
A) There
shall be a reservation of 2% for regular batch and 1% for odd batch (fraction
more than or equal to 0.5 be rounded to next higher integer) to the following
cases, taking into consideration the merit in that category.
(1) Serious and/or
illness of prolonged nature of the student.
(2) Serious
and/or illness of prolonged nature of mother and / or father (in case of
married candidate, the case of husband / wife shall be considered).
The candidate has to
submit all medical records (all prescription and investigation reports, any
other relevant documents) duly attested and medical certificates from Civil
Surgeon / Medical Superintendents / Dean of Govt. Medical College.
However, if concerned committee does not found eligible candidate under this category, then all the transfers will be considered on the basis of merit and total vacancy (i.e. 15% of total students, appearing for the final year examination for both Odd and Regular Batch).
B) After cut-off date
and within three months following the date of declaration of result, if the
candidate apply on the ground mentioned in Resolution Number 1 para – a (1),
(2) and death of mother and / or father, (in case of married candidate, the
death of husband / wife shall be considered), then one seat per College
(Relieving and Receiving) per batch to be considered. In view of the medical
documents and the certificate issued from the Civil Surgeon / Medical
Superintendant / Dean of Govt. Medical College submitted by the candidate, the
decision in this regards shall be taken by the same internship transfer
committee.
C) No applications
shall be considered after three months following the date of declaration of
result.
D) The
candidate has to complete current posting in the parent College before
joining the receiving College
E) The validity of
NOCs submitted by the applicant will remain valid for that batch up to 03
months from the date of declaration of result.
F) Internship transfer
is allowed only one time for a candidate.
G)
However, in addition to above all
categories, the Hon’ble Vice Chancellor will have power of granting internship
transfer to deserving candidate in special circumstances.
The transfer of the Intern shall be the responsibility of the
University. The concerned Dean/Principal
of the Institution shall forward the applications of the candidates desirous of
transfer, received in a prescribed Proforma along with necessary fees to the
University within a specified period and no objection certificate for such
transfer if granted by the University.
Issuance of no objection
certificate for transfer by the Head of the Institution shall be strictly on
the basis of merit of the applicants.
The allotment of the institution to
the candidate desirous of transfer shall be done by the University on the basis
of merit-cum-choice of the applicants.
The transfer of
candidates will be permitted as far as possible within the State. However, if a candidate is desirous of being
permitted for transfer outside the state, such a transfer may be permitted
subject to the condition that it shall be his or her responsibility to execute
his training in an Institution recognised by Medical Council of
India/Rehabilitation Council of India/Commissioner of Disability. However, the applications received after the
specified period shall be considered only for the left out seats/institution.
F LEAVE
:
Leave of absence. No kind of leave of absence is permitted
during the period of internship except to a total of 6 days with prior
permission on sufficient grounds.
However, in case of leave of absence on medical grounds, the internship
programme for such candidates shall be extended corresponding to the period
of absence.
APPENDIX – A
During
internship student MUST CONDUCT following procedure: