Details
Posted: 06-May-22
Location: Texas Medical Center, Houston, Texas
Type: Full Time
Required Education: 4 Year Degree
Salary: 33,418.00
Categories:
Allied Health
Au.D. Externship
Financial Arrangements:
Stipend
Benefits
Primary Practice Setting:
Hospital
University medical center
Salary Details:
Extern will receive healthcare benefits and paid time off.
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Audiology Program provides comprehensive audiologic and rehabilitative services. The program offers special emphasis in the areas of ototoxicity monitoring, vestibular and balance function testing and amplification options for patients with cancer. The program also offers specialty training and experience working with patients with acoustic neuromas, meningiomas, glomous jugulare tumors, Meniere's disease, and middle ear dysfunction. Clinical services are provided in conjunction with ongoing institutional research protocols.
Program Mission
Our goal is to prepare the next generation of independent audiology clinicians with the knowledge and skills necessary to provide outstanding patient care. We have developed a rigorous audiology training program in a multidisciplinary clinical and research institution.
Program Description
The Audiology Fellowship program is a 12-month, full-time position, designed to prepare fellows for a career in adult and pediatric audiology. We also provide research experience. The program includes completion of a research project during the fellowship training. At the completion of the program, the fellow will be expected to demonstrate competency in various clinical areas to provide the highest level of audiological services.
Our AuD fellowship program includes, but is not limited to:
- Comprehensive diagnostic audiologic evaluation for adults and children
- Ototoxicity monitoring
- Tinnitus counseling
- Electrophysiological Assessment
- Otoacoustic Emissions (OAEs)
- Auditory Brainstem Response Audiometry (ABR)
- Sedated ABR for pediatric ototoxic monitoring
- Neurodiagnostic ABR - Auditory Steady State Responses (ASSR)
- Vestibular Assessment
- Videonystagmography (VNG)
- Rotational Chair
- Electrocochleography (ECochG)
- Vestibular Evoked Myogenic Potential (VEMP)
- Hearing aid fitting and follow-up
- Hearing aids and assistive listening devices
- Bone anchored hearing instruments (BAHA)
- Observation and participation of patient candidates for cochlear implants, bone anchored hearing instruments, and acoustic neuroma surgery.
- Research project
For more than 75 years, MD Anderson has been a global leader in the fight to end cancer. Its extraordinary mission calls for bold approaches that allow MD Anderson to continue setting the standard in cancer prevention, education, research and care. We are ranked No. 1 in cancer care in the U.S. News & World Report’s annual “Best Hospitals” survey. The institution has been named one of the nation’s top two cancer hospitals since the survey’s inception in 1990.
In addition to MD Anderson’s top ranking for cancer care, the Head and Neck Surgery service was ranked No. 4 in the Ear, Nose and Throat specialty.
Know more about our hospital
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Minimum Requirements for Au.D. externship:
Externship Information:
| Primary Practice Setting: | Hospital
University medical center
| 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)
4 FTE Clerical Support Staff
| Number of Audiology Students each year:
| 0 1st year AuD Clinical Rotations
0 2nd year
0 3rd year
1 4th year Externships | | Financial arrangements: | Stipend
Benefits
| | Will interview travel be compensated? | No
| | Vacation Days: | 160 hours
| | Continuing education opportunities? | Yes
| | Start Date: | 07/01/2023
| | Expected hours/days a week: | 40/5
| | Travel to satellite centers required? | No
| | 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: | - Basic audiologic diagnostic testing for all ages. - Basic rehabilitative skills, including hearing aids. - Basic vestibular testing. - Basic electrophysiologic testing (ABR, DPOAEs). | | Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | - Proficiency in advanced audiologic diagnostic testing. - Ototoxicity monitoring - Proficiency in hearing aid selection and fitting, including programming osseointegrated devices. - Proficiency in counseling patients for hearing loss and tinnitus management. - Proficiency in vestibular testing (VNG and rotary chair). - Proficiency in report writing, professional communication and clinical decision-making skills.
-Patient reported outcome measures | Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:
| | Regularly | 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 | | Regularly | Hearing Screenings | | Regularly | Evoked potential assessments | | Never | 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) | | Rarely | Cochlear implant evaluations | | Rarely | Cochlear implant rehabilitation | | Regularly | Tinnitus assessments | | Regularly | Tinnitus rehabilitation | | Regularly | Cerumen management | | | Research opportunities? | Yes
Yes. Completion of an approved research project that focuses on an agreed upon audiologic topic of choice. Project will be completed under audiology preceptors and section chief. | | 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: | - Affiliation agreement in place prior to the start date of the externship.
- Expected evaluations with due dates. | | Application Deadline: | 6/17/2022 | | Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation
Resume
Transcript
Phone interview
Letter of request/intent
| | Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: | Please contact Casey Richardson for more information. | Contact Person:
(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Casey Richardson, MA, CCC-SLP - CLeever@mdanderson.org | | Are all externs supervised? | Yes
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Minimum Requirements for Au.D. externship:
