Details
Posted: 29-Jun-22
Location: Baltimore, Maryland
Type: Full Time
Categories:
Allied Health
Au.D. Externship
Financial Arrangements:
Stipend
Primary Practice Setting:
Other
Kennedy Krieger Institute is an internationally recognized institution dedicated to improving the lives of individuals with disorders of the brain, spinal cord, and musculoskeletal system through: patient care, research and professional training, special education, and community initiatives.
The audiology department evaluates, diagnoses, and treats hearing loss, mainly for the pediatric population. The majority of evaluations are conducted in the outpatient clinic; we also provide services to the KKI inpatient population and to the KKI schools. All supervising audiologists are state licensed and maintain ASHA certification.
We offer, supported by a LEND grant, a 4th year externship, beginning approximately the beginning of June 2023 and extending approximately 11-12 months, dependent upon University requirements. Externs should have a strong desire to commit to working with the pediatric population, particularly those with diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder or other neurodevelopmental disabilities, and to develop leadership skills.
As Kennedy Krieger Institute is a LEND (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities) program, in addition to clinical training, the LEND trainee will participate in weekly interdisciplinary seminars, attend EHDI and AUCD meetings, participate in a research project, and may be involved with community outreach activities.
A stipend may be offered dependent upon LEND grant/department funding. KKI is active in EDI activities.
Applicants should be students in good standing in an accredited, university-based AuD program with intent to complete all university-based classwork (e.g., 3rd year) prior to beginning the externship. In order to be eligible for the LEND stipend, the trainee must be a U.S. citizen.
Externs accepted for the position will be asked to provide proof of medical insurance and will need to provide proof of vaccinations (including Covid) and TB testing (or undergo testing to verify status) and receive any needed vaccinations/TB test and an annual influenza vaccine.
Externship Information:
| Primary Practice Setting: | Other
Outpatient clinic/rehabilitation center | Number of Audiologists at the site:
| 0 FTE Masters Degree
3 FTE Au.D.
0 FTE Ph.D.
0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD)
0 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants)
2 FTE Clerical Support Staff
| Number of Audiology Students each year:
| 0 1st year AuD Clinical Rotations
1 2nd year
2 3rd year
1 4th year Externships | | Financial arrangements: | Stipend
| | Will interview travel be compensated? | No
| | Vacation Days: | 10
| | Continuing education opportunities? | Yes
In house activities, such as hearing aid manufacturer training. LEND didactic activities
Attendance at the annual EHDI conference and AUCD meetings (dependent upon funding) | | Start Date: | mid May-Early June
| | Expected hours/days a week: | 40
| | 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: | •Completion of 3rd year of accredited AuD program or equivalent for 3-year programs
•Successful progress on core competencies including audiometric assessment, immittance testing, and hearing aid verification and validation
•Previous experience with pediatric test techniques and hearing aid fitting preferred
•Strong written and oral communication skills | | Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | •Competence in BOA/VRA/CPA test techniques
•Competence in pediatric hearing aid fitting, validation, and verification
•Experience with auditory processing assessment techniques and interpretation
•Experience with auditory evoked potentials testing
•Competence in working with the population with diagnoses of autism and other neurodevelopmental disabilities
•Experience with interdisciplinary provision of diagnoses and rehabilitative services
•Completion of LEND-related research, interdisciplinary learning, and collaborative, community outreach, and advocacy activities promoting the early identification and treatment of hearing loss in children, particularly those with diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder and related neurodevelopmental disorders | 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 | | Regularly | Evoked potential assessments | | Never | Intra-operative monitoring cases | | Everyday | Otoacoustic emissions | | Never | Industrial/hearing conservation | | Never | Vestibular assessments | | Never | Vestibular rehabilitation | | Regularly | Hearing aids dispensed | | Regularly | Hearing aid selection/fitting | | Never | Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) | | Never | Cochlear implant evaluations | | Never | Cochlear implant rehabilitation | | Never | Tinnitus assessments | | Never | Tinnitus rehabilitation | | Never | Cerumen management | | | Research opportunities? | Yes
Extern will participate in preparing a poster for the annual EHDI conference and in other opportunities as they arise. | | 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: | A training affiliation agreement with the extern's University will need to be in place by the time the externship begins. Certificate of insurance is also required. University requirements regarding externship requirements/completion are requested. | | Application Deadline: | 9/16/22 | | Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation
Resume
Transcript
Phone interview
Letter of request/intent
Other
Letter of intent should include (or provide a separate letter) a maximum of one page detailing the applicant's desire to work in the long-term with the pediatric population, and particularly those with the co-existing diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and/or related neurodevelopmental disabilities, as well as the desire to develop leadership skills in providing service to this population and their families. | | Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: | Please email 3 letters of recommendation, an unofficial transcript, CV or resume, and letter(s) of intent as described above to be received by 09/16/22.
Applicants selected for the interview process will be notified in mid-to late September and a video interview scheduled. | Contact Person:
(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Amy Gaskin, AuD - gaskin@kennedykrieger.org | | Are all externs supervised? | Yes
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Applicants should be students in good standing in an accredited, university-based AuD program with intent to complete all university-based classwork (e.g., 3rd year) prior to beginning the externship. In order to be eligible for the LEND stipend, the trainee must be a U.S. citizen.
Externs accepted for the position will be asked to provide proof of medical insurance and will need to provide proof of vaccinations (including Covid) and TB testing (or undergo testing to verify status) and receive any needed vaccinations/TB test and an annual influenza vaccine.
