Looking Back, Looking Ahead to Transition from Clinic to Academia

There are four infamous words that parents, including me, say to children: "Back in my day … (fill in the blank)." What follows this phrase is usually something like, "I used to walk to school uphill, both ways, barefoot, in the snow." No matter the context, "Back in my day" serves as a bridge linking the past to the present. In the summer of 2018—just a little more than 16 years since I had received my undergraduate degree from Loyola University Maryland in Baltimore—I started a new job as a clinical assistant professor several miles north of my alma mater at Towson University. Prior to this appointment, I worked as a clinical audiologist in a children's hospital as well as an educational audiologist and teacher at a school for the deaf. The Dragon Slayer in...

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