Supervision is a critical component of graduate education in communication sciences and disorders. Students spend a large amount of time with their supervisors, who guide them through clinical experiences in graduate school. Thus, students believe certain supervisor characteristics may enhance or inhibit their success as a student clinician. This study investigated the opinions of graduate students about the supervisor behaviors and attributes that create a positive supervisory experience. Twenty-three students in the graduate Communication Disorders Program at Georgia State University completed a survey regarding their thoughts and opinions on the supervisory process. The results of the study indicated that students prefer supervisors who are knowledgeable and supportive and who create a collegial atmosphere for supervisory conferences. The results further suggested that supervisors should provide timely feedback to supervisees in a written or face-to-face form. The results of this study can be used to offer advice to clinical supervisors on the types of feedback and interpersonal characteristics that can maximize the student clinician's success.

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Introduction: Tennis elbow (TE), or lateral epicondylitis of the humerus, is a painful condition seen commonly in the daily practice of Orthopaedic surgeons. One of the myriad of treatment methods for TE is percutaneous needle tenotomy of the common extensor origin. It is a simple operation with minimal morbidity and good-to-excellent results in most of the patients. e aim of this study was to evaluate the outcome in patients with chronic TE. Methods: this was a prospective study in 33 consecutive patients of both sexes with TE who were above 30 years of age. An 18 Gauge hypodermic needle was used under local anaesthesia to percutaneously tenotomise the extensor origin at the point of maximum tenderness. Visual analogue score (VAS) was used to assess the pain prior to intervention and in subsequent follow-ups at rst, third, sixth and 12 th weeks. Persistence of pain and return to activities of the patients was used to evaluate outcome as excellent, good, fair or poor. Results: At the end of 12 weeks, eleven out of 30 elbows (36.7%) had an excellent outcome, 13 (43.3%) had good, 5 (16.7%) had fair and 1 patient (3.3%) had poor outcome. At rst week follow-up, the mean pain at rest was 4.60, the same at night was 2.73 and activity pain was a mean of 7.70 (max-9, min-5). By 12 week follow-up, the mean VAS scores at rest, night and activites were 0.87, 0.63 and 1.53 respectively, showing signii cant decrease in pain. Conclusions: Percutaneous tenotomy is a simple, safe, patient friendly, ee ective and easily reproducible method of treating tennis elbow.