Details
Posted: 01-Aug-22
Location: Fort Wayne
Type: Full Time
Salary: Open
Categories:
Allied Health
Au.D. Externship
Financial Arrangements:
Stipend
Primary Practice Setting:
ENT group practice
Additional Information:
2 openings available.
Ear, Nose and Throat Associates, P.C./The Hearing Center has been the region's premier provider of comprehensive ear, nose and throat care for over 6 decades and continues to thrive and grow. Our independent practice has 2 ENT offices, 13 satellite locations and 2 retail hearing device centers in the Fort Wayne, IN area. Our team consists of 17 physicians/nurse practitioners and 13 audiologists. Visit www.enthearingcenter.com and www.entfw.com to learn more about our practice.
The Hearing Center is well-suited for a 4th Year Externship as we offer a wide variety of services for all age groups. Our Audiology services include basic comprehensive audiometry, ABR, OAE, APD, comprehensive vestibular assessments, cochlear implant and bone anchored device management and hearing device dispensing with all populations.
This is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic, motivated, self-driven, highly organized extern eager to work in a team environment which encourages professional growth in a fast-paced practice resulting in an Audiologist who is thoroughly prepared for the field.
Applicants are required to have successfully completed all academic and clinic experience requirements of their first, second and third year programs.
Externship Information:
| Primary Practice Setting: | ENT group practice
| Number of Audiologists at the site:
| 3 FTE Masters Degree
10 FTE Au.D.
0 FTE Ph.D.
0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD)
3 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants)
9 FTE Clerical Support Staff
| Number of Audiology Students each year:
| 0 1st year AuD Clinical Rotations
1 2nd year
1 3rd year
2 4th year Externships | | Financial arrangements: | Stipend
| | Will interview travel be compensated? | No
| | Vacation Days: | 10
| | Continuing education opportunities? | Yes
Regular CEU training from hearing device manufacturers. | | Start Date: | Negotiable
| | 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: | Basic audiogram including impedance testing and masking of air/bone. OAE administration and interpretation. Hearing aid dispensing skills. Hearing aid selection. Earmold selection. Basic knowledge of hearing aid fine tuning. | | Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | Student will master air/bone masking skills. Hearing aid Selection and Dispensing Hearing aid follow up skills. Interpretation of OAE test results. | 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 | | Rarely | Auditory processing evaluations | | Regularly | Hearing Screenings | | Regularly | Evoked potential assessments | | Never | Intra-operative monitoring cases | | Regularly | Otoacoustic emissions | | Never | Industrial/hearing conservation | | Regularly | Vestibular assessments | | Rarely | Vestibular rehabilitation | | Regularly | Hearing aids dispensed | | Regularly | Hearing aid selection/fitting | | Rarely | Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) | | Regularly | Cochlear implant evaluations | | Regularly | 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: | As needed. | | Application Deadline: | September 10, 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: | Student may submit a cover letter, resume, transcript and 2 letters of recommendation. The university may make first contact if preferred. | Contact Person:
(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Alison Schortgen - aschortgen@entfw.com | | Are all externs supervised? | Yes
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Applicants are required to have successfully completed all academic and clinic experience requirements of their first, second and third year programs.
