Details
Posted: 06-Jul-22
Location: Wilmington, DE
Type: Full Time
Salary: 0
Categories:
Allied Health
Au.D. Externship
Financial Arrangements:
None
Primary Practice Setting:
Hospital
Other
Additional Information:
2 openings available.
Dynamic Audiology department working directly in conjunction with pediatric otolaryngologists, SLPs, psychologists, social workers, pediatricians, and multidisciplinary team members at an established pediatric hospital is searching for a reliable, motivated, hardworking Pediatric Audiology Extern for a rotating position through the main hospital on the Alfred I. DuPont Campus and five satellites located in DE, NJ, and PA. Services include audiometry, immittance measures, electrophysiological measures (DPOAE, TEOAE, ABR, AABR, cortical potentials, vestibular evaluations, auditory processing evaluations, fitting and dispensing of hearing aids, bone conduction devices, cochlear implants, and remote microphone systems for children birth through 21 years of age. Opportunities to be involved in research are available if interested.
Send resume/CV, letter of intent, unofficial graduate transcript, and two letters of recommendations to julie.verhoff@nemours.org by Friday, September 23, 2022. Application process will follow the Audiology Clinical Education Network (ACEN) timeline. All chosen applicants will be offered a virtual interview to be held via Microsoft Teams on Thursday, October 6, 2022. Offers will be extended to students at 11 AM EST on Monday, October 24, 2020. Deadline for applicants to accept offer is by 7 PM, Tuesday, October 25, 2022.
2022 ACEN TIMELINE
- Application Deadline: Friday, September 23, 2022
- Interviews Begin: Monday, September 26, 2022
- Interviews complete: Friday, October 21, 2022
- Offers extended beginning: Monday, October 24, 2022 (11 am Eastern; 8 am Pacific)
- Response Deadline: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 (7 pm Eastern; 4 pm Pacific)
- Subsequent Offers Begin: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 (7 pm Eastern; 4 pm Pacific)
Nemours Children's Hospital, Delaware
Alfred I. DuPont Campus
ATTN: Audiology / Dr. Julie Verhoff
1600 Rockland Road Wilmington, DE 19803
julie.verhoff@nemours.org
Affiliation with an accredited AuD program
Expectations
·Motivation to learn about and work with pediatric patients
·Contribution to clinical protocols and up-to-date techniques
·Professionalism with colleagues and patients
·Willingness to work with dynamic team of audiologists, physicians, therapists, and hearing researchers
Externship Information:
| Primary Practice Setting: | Hospital
Other
Satellite locations in Milford, DE; Philadelphia, PA; Newtown Square, PA; Deptford, NJ. | Number of Audiologists at the site:
| 0 FTE Masters Degree
13 FTE Au.D.
3 FTE Ph.D.
0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD)
2 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants)
4 FTE Clerical Support Staff
| Number of Audiology Students each year:
| 0 1st year AuD Clinical Rotations
0 2nd year
2 3rd year
2 4th year Externships | | Financial arrangements: | None
| | Will interview travel be compensated? | No
| | Vacation Days: | as needed
| | Continuing education opportunities? | Yes
Ground rounds, In-services, hospital-wide education, national/local conventions/seminars, hospital team meetings (e.g., EARS, Cleft, NICU, Multidisciplinary, etc.) | | Start Date: | negotiable
| | Expected hours/days a week: | 40 hours/week
| | Travel to satellite centers required? | Yes
May have minimal travel to satellite locations within 30 miles of the main campus dependent upon individual extern. Satellite locations include:• Philadelphia, PA• Newtown Square, PA• Deptford, NJ, Strasburg, PA | | Local students preferred: | No
| | Does the externship site provide orientation to relevant clinical policies and procedures? | Yes | | Does the externship site provide instructions about patient's rights and providing patient education? | Yes | | Does the externship site provide orientation to quality assessment, quality assurance and quality improvement? | Yes
| | Externship site expects the extern to have mastered these skills before they begin their clinical externship: | •Professionalism•Basic audiometry/audiological evaluation•Theoretical knowledge of pediatric audiological assessment•Theoretical knowledge of electrophysiology•Theoretical knowledge of amplication devices and/or cochlear implants | | Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | •Implementation of theoretical knowledge•Become proficient in basic audiometry with the pediatric population•Gain proficiency in amplification and cochlear implants•Gain profiency in electrophysiology; Vestibular assessment; APD assessment•Proficiency in counseling patients and families•Proficiency in writing evaluation reports•Proficiency in communicating within the discipline and primary and specialty care providers | Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:
| | Regularly | Hearing Screenings | | Everyday | Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler | | Everyday | Pediatric evaluations: school-age | | Rarely | Adult hearing evaluations | | Everyday | Tympanometry | | Everyday | Acoustic Reflexes | | Regularly | Auditory processing evaluations | | Regularly | Hearing Screenings | | Everyday | Evoked potential assessments | | Regularly | Intra-operative monitoring cases | | Everyday | Otoacoustic emissions | | Rarely | Industrial/hearing conservation | | Regularly | Vestibular assessments | | Rarely | Vestibular rehabilitation | | Regularly | Hearing aids dispensed | | Regularly | Hearing aid selection/fitting | | Rarely | Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) | | Regularly | Cochlear implant evaluations | | Regularly | Cochlear implant rehabilitation | | Regularly | Tinnitus assessments | | Rarely | Tinnitus rehabilitation | | Rarely | Cerumen management | | | Research opportunities? | Yes
Student will have the opportunity to collaborate with research team and faculty members to create and participate with ongoing studies. | | Consortium or collaborative arrangements with other sites? | No
| | How frequently will the externship site communicate with the university during the externship? | As Needed
| | Communication or other support do expected or required from the university during the externship: | Dependent upon individual extern/university affiliation | | Application Deadline: | September 23, 2022 | | Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation
Resume
Transcript
Phone interview
Letter of request/intent
Please be aware that the virtual interview will be held on Thursday, October 6, 2022. | | Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: | Direct contact for further inquiry by student and/or university; application to be sent electronically. All necessary documents must be received by Friday, September 23, 2022. Verification of completed application is encouraged via email at Julie.verhoff@nemours.org. Invitations for in-person interviews will be extended the last week in September. All interviews will be held on Thursday, October 6, 2022 via Microsoft Teams. | Contact Person:
(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Julie Verhoff, AuD, PhD, CCC-A - julie.verhoff@nemours.org | | Are all externs supervised? | Yes
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Affiliation with an accredited AuD program
Expectations
·Motivation to learn about and work with pediatric patients
·Contribution to clinical protocols and up-to-date techniques
·Professionalism with colleagues and patients
·Willingness to work with dynamic team of audiologists, physicians, therapists, and hearing researchers
