Details
Posted: 30-Dec-21
Location: Audiology Externship
Type: Full Time
Salary: $35,000
Categories:
Allied Health
Au.D. Externship
Financial Arrangements:
Salary
Primary Practice Setting:
Private practice
Additional Information:
2 openings available.
Externship is available from May 1, 2022 to May 31, 2023. Start date is negotiable if needed. Position is for a 4th year extern with an interest in fitting hearing aids to mostly an adult population, hearing aid evaluations, diagnostic testing, and aural rehabilitation.
Our office in located in the friendly community of downtown Plymouth. We are within walking distance of many restaurant, historic Penn Theater, and many seasonal activities in Kellogg Park. There are opportunities for involvement in Senior events through community council of the aged groups.
Full-time Audiology positions are available within the organization (not at Plymouth training site) after completion the externship.
Completion of required courses to be classified as a 4th year Extern.
Externship Information:
| Primary Practice Setting: | Private practice
| Number of Audiologists at the site:
| 1 FTE Masters Degree
0 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
| Number of Audiology Students each year:
| 0 1st year AuD Clinical Rotations
0 2nd year
3 3rd year
2 4th year Externships | | Financial arrangements: | Salary
| | Will interview travel be compensated? | No
| | Vacation Days: | 10
| | Continuing education opportunities? | Yes
Yes. | | Start Date: | May 2022
| | Expected hours/days a week: | 8 hours per day
| | Travel to satellite centers required? | Yes
Locations are within 30 minutes | | 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: | Audiometric testing on adults
Hearing aid Selections
Hearing aid delivery and orientations
Real-ear measurement test
Use of Noah software
Basic hearing aid repairs
Earmold impressions | | Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | Counseling patients
Cerumen Management
Management of hearing aid lab and walk-in clinic
Working with Manage Care Insurance
Ordering hearing aids through an OMS | Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:
| | Regularly | Hearing Screenings | | Never | Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler | | Never | Pediatric evaluations: school-age | | Everyday | Adult hearing evaluations | | Everyday | Tympanometry | | Everyday | Acoustic Reflexes | | Rarely | Auditory processing evaluations | | Regularly | Hearing Screenings | | Never | Evoked potential assessments | | Never | Intra-operative monitoring cases | | Rarely | Otoacoustic emissions | | Never | Industrial/hearing conservation | | Never | Vestibular assessments | | Never | Vestibular rehabilitation | | Everyday | Hearing aids dispensed | | Everyday | Hearing aid selection/fitting | | Regularly | Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) | | Never | Cochlear implant evaluations | | Never | Cochlear implant rehabilitation | | Rarely | Tinnitus assessments | | Rarely | Tinnitus rehabilitation | | Regularly | Cerumen management | | | Research opportunities? | No
| | 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: | None | | Application Deadline: | 1-31-2022 | | Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation
Resume
| | Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: | Send resume and letter of interest to:
gehu@hearinglife.com | Contact Person:
(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Gerald Hug MA, CCC-A - gehu@hearinglife.com | | Are all externs supervised? | Yes
| |
Completion of required courses to be classified as a 4th year Extern.
