| Primary Practice Setting: | ENT group practice
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Number of Audiologists at the site:
| 0 FTE Masters Degree
2 FTE Au.D.
0 FTE Ph.D.
0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD)
0 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants)
1 FTE Clerical Support Staff
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Number of Audiology Students each year:
| 0 1st year AuD Clinical Rotations
0 2nd year
0 3rd year
1 4th year Externships |
| Financial arrangements: | Other – Please Describe
Hourly wage with hearing aid sales compensation. |
| Will interview travel be compensated? | No
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| Vacation Days: | 10
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| Continuing education opportunities? | No
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| Start Date: | 05/01/2021
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| Expected hours/days a week: | 40 hours
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| Travel to satellite centers required? | No
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| Local students preferred: | No
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| 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
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| Externship site expects the extern to have mastered these skills before they begin their clinical externship: | Perform comprehensive hearing evaluations on pediatric to geriatric patients, understand how to accurately mask when needed, how to interpret hearing evaluations. The externship should also have familiarity with programming and trouble shooting hearing aids. |
| Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | To comfortably and confidently relay test results to the patient and to devise a potential plan for rehabilitation. The externs should also feel comfortable talking to patients about hearing aids and hearing aid trouble shooting. |
Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:
| | Everyday | Hearing Screenings | | Regularly | Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler | | Regularly | Pediatric evaluations: school-age | | Everyday | Adult hearing evaluations | | Everyday | Tympanometry | | Everyday | Acoustic Reflexes | | Never | Auditory processing evaluations | | Everyday | Hearing Screenings | | Never | Evoked potential assessments | | Never | Intra-operative monitoring cases | | Rarely | Otoacoustic emissions | | Rarely | Industrial/hearing conservation | | Rarely | Vestibular assessments | | Rarely | Vestibular rehabilitation | | Everyday | Hearing aids dispensed | | Everyday | Hearing aid selection/fitting | | Never | Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) | | Never | Cochlear implant evaluations | | Never | Cochlear implant rehabilitation | | Regularly | Tinnitus assessments | | Never | Tinnitus rehabilitation | | Regularly | Cerumen management | |
| Research opportunities? | No
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| Consortium or collaborative arrangements with other sites? | No
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| How frequently will the externship site communicate with the university during the externship? | As Needed
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| Communication or other support do expected or required from the university during the externship: | Would require the university to provide a way to progressively assess the externs progress via reporting. |
| Application Deadline: | 01/01/2021 |
| Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation
Resume
Phone interview
Letter of request/intent
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| Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: | Please send all applicable information to Jennifer Dessel at jdes@hearinglife.com |
Contact Person:
(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Jennifer Dessel, Au.D., CCC-A - jdes@hearinglife.com |
| Are all externs supervised? | Yes
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