[CAUT] CAUT Endorsement

[Dorothy Bell]

(I'm sorry about the previous incomplete post, my computer gets impatient and runs to the mailbox.)

Fred Sturm wrote, "Let me add a bit about this notion of "concert tuning" versus "whatever other kind of tuning" there may be. We (the skills test subcommittee) discussed a number of ideas about tuning. We thought a caut needed to be able to do an efficient bang-up job of pitch change, and come up with a good solid tuning in the end in a pretty short period of time. Ken Eschete expressed another side to what kind of chops a caut needs to have, saying we should check the seventh tuning of the day and see how that measured up, and then the same after a week, a month. . . Maybe a bit exaggerated, but the idea is one of focus, efficiency, chops to get it done, and the professional attitude that says every single one is a quality tuning, with a focus on solid."

OK -- entry level CAUT or advanced practice CAUT? (I'm thinking in terms of the RN licensing exams -- passing the RN exam means you're unlikely to kill people, and passing the NP (nurse practitioner) exam means that you have the experience and skills to plan an independent course of action for any patient on your case load.)

I think I have been thrown off by the introduction of the possibility both of assessing concert tuning skills and of "checking the seventh tuning in a day" -- that latter in itself would pretty much weed out people not already working in institutional environments, because it's hard to develop that stamina working in home service. But indeed, being able to do lots of tunings in one day to an acceptable standard would be a good skill for a CAUT to have, or perhaps to develop over time.

It seems to me that the skill requirements and levels for basic CAUT entry and advanced practice CAUT would be quite different, and I'm not sure what sort of job candidates the proposed tests are intended to assess.

Dorrie Bell
Boston, MA
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