Kaviar 1911

Hello all.... I am a non traditional future Student that received my undergraduate degree in 1996. I minored in speech pathology. I have since spent the last 20 years in the music industry as an executive at various labels... Minus a stint in the military.....and graduate school......I am now in my late thirties and seeking a career change. I pretty much know exactly what I want to do. I'm trying to find a way to create a niche for myself within the speech language pathology field. I want to get into a doctoral program that allows me to get my CCC during the process. It is my plan to work with soldiers who have battlefield trauma of the throat. I spent a little time in the military and I saw soldiers with shrapnel in their necks, sliced tracheas, dislodged voice boxes, & a myriad of other battlefield injuries. Since it is too late for me to attend medical school at my age.... because for what I want to do in throat surgery would take at least 12 years... So I was thinking about combining a medical SLP with a doctor of nurse practitioner degree, or maybe a Medical SLP with a physicians assistant degree.... During the research I've been doing, I stumbled across clinical science doctoral programs as well as SLPD.... I definitely want to work as a clinician as opposed to a research doctorate. I'm also looking into a PhD program in molecular bioscience because that then opens me up to being able to study cancer of the throat and specialize in various issues dealing with swallowing disorders or disease affecting the internal mechanism of the throat. My question to you all is.... Am i jumping the gun? As in moving too fast.... Like maybe I should just get A masters in speech pathology and get my Cs first... Or can I go straight into a clinical doctoral program?