Details
Posted: 21-Jun-22
Location: Worcester, Massachusetts
Type: Full Time
Required Education: 4 Year Degree
Categories:
Allied Health
Au.D. Externship
Financial Arrangements:
Other – Please Describe
Primary Practice Setting:
University medical center
UMass Memorial Medical Center Audiology Department offers a comprehensive externship including diagnostic and rehabilitative options spanning all ages from infants through geriatrics. We provide externs with the experience necessary to become independent clinicians in all aspects of audiology.
This is a 12-month full time paid externship position consisting of 4-10 hour days. The extern will rotate through two different locations obtaining a well-rounded externship experience in a busy diverse medical center. Externs will routinely collaborate with the Otolaryngology department to deliver holistic patient centered care.
Experience will entail:
-ENT clinics (Neuro-Otology and Pediatric Clinics)
-Adult/Pediatric full diagnostic evaluations
-Hearing aid fitting and programming
-Implantable device (Osseo-integrated, Cochlear Implants) consultation, activation, and optimization.
-Vestibular testing (VEMP, VNG’s)
-Auditory Evoked Potentials (Threshold ABR’s, ASSR’s, neuro-diagnostic ABR’s)
-Other experiences may include participation in OR surgical cases, a multi-disciplinary Craniofacial Clinic, and Grand Rounds.
Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree is required. Applicant must be currently enrolled in an accredited clinical Audiology doctorate (Au.D.) program. Academic requirements for degree completion must be met prior to starting the 4th year externship.
- Cover letter
- Up to date CV/Resume
- Up to date transcript
- 3 letters of recommendation (1 from a professor, 2 from current/previous clinical supervisors)
Externship Information:
| Primary Practice Setting: | University medical center
| Number of Audiologists at the site:
| 1 FTE Masters Degree
13 FTE Au.D.
0 FTE Ph.D.
0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD)
0 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants)
3 FTE Clerical Support Staff
| Number of Audiology Students each year:
| 2 1st year AuD Clinical Rotations
2 2nd year
2 3rd year
2 4th year Externships | | Financial arrangements: | Other – Please Describe
Position is typically a stipend position, approval for stipend typically happens by end of July. More detailed financial information will be given at time of interviews. | | Will interview travel be compensated? | No
| | Vacation Days: | 10
| | Continuing education opportunities? | Yes
The externs will be trained by all cochlear implant and hearing aid manufacturers and will have the opportunity to participate in updated meetings as seen fit. We also hold Grand Rounds every month to discuss interesting cases and invite guest speakers. | | Start Date: | 06/01/2023
| | Expected hours/days a week: | 10 hour day/4 days
| | Travel to satellite centers required? | Yes
3 miles | | Local students preferred: | Yes
| | 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: | Proficient in otoscopy, tympanometry, otoacoustic emissions, pure tone testing and masking. Able to take a thorough case history, evaluate results of all tests to determine validity of findings and/or need for additional testing, ability to properly counsel on test results and recommendations, open to constructive feedback by all supervisors. | | Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | The extern will work with Audiologists in all disciplines (Vestibular, Electroacoustics, Implantable Technologies, Hearing Aids, Pediatric and Adult diagnostics). We strive for a certain level of independence in all areas by the end of their externship with us. | Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:
| | Rarely | Hearing Screenings | | Regularly | Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler | | Regularly | Pediatric evaluations: school-age | | Regularly | Adult hearing evaluations | | Everyday | Tympanometry | | Everyday | Acoustic Reflexes | | Never | Auditory processing evaluations | | Rarely | Hearing Screenings | | Regularly | Evoked potential assessments | | Never | Intra-operative monitoring cases | | Everyday | Otoacoustic emissions | | Rarely | Industrial/hearing conservation | | Regularly | Vestibular assessments | | Never | Vestibular rehabilitation | | Regularly | Hearing aids dispensed | | Regularly | Hearing aid selection/fitting | | Never | Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) | | Regularly | Cochlear implant evaluations | | Never | Cochlear implant rehabilitation | | Never | Tinnitus assessments | | Never | Tinnitus rehabilitation | | Never | 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: | Start and end dates as well as due dates of all evaluations. If using an electronic grading system, instructions on registering and utilizing that system are appreciated. | | Application Deadline: | 09/09/2023 | | Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation
Resume
Transcript
Personal Review
Letter of request/intent
| | Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: | Please submit all materials together in one e-mail to the preceptor below. Letters of recommendation may come separately if required by your institution, please request your name be in the subject line of the e-mail. | Contact Person:
(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Nicole Seymour - nicole.seymour@umassmemorial.org | | Are all externs supervised? | Yes
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Requirements:
Bachelor's Degree is required. Applicant must be currently enrolled in an accredited clinical Audiology doctorate (Au.D.) program. Academic requirements for degree completion must be met prior to starting the 4th year externship.
- Cover letter
- Up to date CV/Resume
- Up to date transcript
- 3 letters of recommendation (1 from a professor, 2 from current/previous clinical supervisors)
