Oral Exam ... the non-flossing kind

I am on Cloud 9



I passed my oral exam this past Tuesday. What a relief!! I can't even describe how nervous I was going into the exam. I don't like interviews very much, and this was like an interview on steroids. Thankfully, it only lasted about half an hour until they were "satisfied" with the knowledge that I had shown. Then they had me leave the room, talked for 30 seconds, and announced to me that I had passed. They said a bunch of stuff like "We're so proud of you," and "You are a fine representation for our school," but at the time I was just so overwhelmed I was trying not to cry.

Afterwards I wrote down some of the questions they asked me because I wanted to remember someday all the things I once knew, haha!

- Describe brain areas involved in attention - functional, anatomical and BA names
- Describe brain areas involved in music syntax
- What is the Rational Scientific Mediating Model, give an example for the sensorimotor domain, how are levels 1 & 2 related?
- What is rhythmic speech cueing (that's a music therpy technique) and how does it work? What populations would you use it with?
- Design and describe a research study you would conduct at your internship site (in full detail!)
- How do you use music therapy techniques with children when they're based on a rehabiliation model?
- How specifically is music a language?
- How do you know what research is good or just the latest fad?
- What if a technique doesn't work with a client, even if research says it will?
- What research have you come across that has had an effect on your practice?

I know no one reading this has the slightest clue what most of these things are, but you can probably appreciate getting something like this over with!