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Audiology Resident (aka 4th year Externship) 2024-2025
UTMB Health
Application
Details
Posted: 25-Mar-23
Location: Houston/Galveston area
Type: Full Time
Salary: Stipend
Categories:
Allied Health
Au.D. Externship
Financial Arrangements:
Stipend
Benefits
Primary Practice Setting:
University medical center
Salary Details:
Full benefits including employee paid health-insurance, optional vision and dental insurance, and optional flexible medical spending account. Employee discount program and CEU opportunities.
Preferred Education:
4 Year Degree
Additional Information:
3 openings available.
Internal Number: TBD
Three positions available:
Exciting opportunity for a one-year residency position in Audiology at a leading academic health sciences center. Our residencies begin in early June to late July of each year and provide well-rounded exposure to a full range of diagnostic and treatment services for patients of all ages (approximately 50% adult and 50% pediatrics).
UTMB is located on the Texas Gulf Coast, approximately 50 miles south of Houston. A team of 12 audiologists at the Center for Audiology & Speech Pathology provide over 13,000 patient visits per year in five clinic areas. Our clinics offer a full range services including: audiological evaluation, behavioral and electrophysiological central auditory processing testing, electrophysiological testing (ABR, MLR, LVR, P300, VEMP), hearing aid evaluation, fitting and maintenance, videonystagmography, rotary chair, iPASS, vHIT, andelectroneuronography. Please visit our website at www.utmb.edu/casp for additional information.
UTMB Health strives to provide equal opportunity employment without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information or veteran status. As a Federal Contractor, UTMB Health takes affirmative action to hire and advance women, minorities, protected veterans and individuals with disabilities.
Minimum qualifications include: Bachelor's degree, current enrollment in Au.D. program and eligible for fourth year Au.D. externship. Candidate must be eligible for Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation Audiology Intern license.
Immediate inquiries should be addressed to Cathy Duncan, Sr. Business Coordinator, Phone: (409) 772-2711, Email: caduncan@utmb.edu. or Deborah L. Carlson, Ph.D. Director, Email: dlcarlso@utmb.edu.
Please SEND hard copies of letter of interest, resume, list of practicum hours and sites, official transcripts and three letters of recommendation to:
Deborah L. Carlson, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Director Center for Audiology & Speech Pathology The University of Texas Medical Branch 301 University Boulevard Galveston, TX 77555-0523
AND
Following the send of application materials, please complete UTMB online application at https://www.utmb.edu/hr/careers - Audiology Resident (2024 job # TBD- posted August 2023).
APPLICATION DEADLINE:
UTMB participates in the Audiology Clinical Education Network (ACEN) and adheres to application, interview, and offer deadlines agreed upon by the network members.
2023 Positions filled
2024 positions: Deadline September 22, 2023 (Job ID available August 2023)
Externship Information:
Primary Practice Setting:
University medical center
Number of Audiologists at the site:
0 FTE Masters Degree 13 FTE Au.D. 1 FTE Ph.D. 0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD) 2 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants) 3 FTE Clerical Support Staff
Number of Audiology Students each year:
0 1st year AuD Clinical Rotations 0 2nd year 0 3rd year 3 4th year Externships
Financial arrangements:
Stipend Benefits
Will interview travel be compensated?
No
Vacation Days:
PTO as allowed
Continuing education opportunities?
Yes On-site and local
Start Date:
June or July 2024
Expected hours/days a week:
40
Travel to satellite centers required?
Yes All clinics within 35 miles of main campus. Clinics are located in Galveston, League City, Webster and Texas City. Overall clinical population is 50% peds/50% adults.
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:
Audios Immittance OAE/ABR screening Hearing aid fitting and maintenance Experience with all age populations
Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship:
1) Gain confidence and independent clinical skills with a broad-based patient population 2) Refine skills in pediatric and adult behavioral audiological services, electrophysiological testing (ECoG, ABR, MLR, LVR, P300, VEMP) amplification, central auditory assessment (behavioral and electrophysiological) and balance testing (VNG, Rotary chair, Posturography, vHIT). 3) Participate in clinical or research project
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
Regularly
Auditory processing evaluations
Regularly
Hearing Screenings
Regularly
Evoked potential assessments
Never
Intra-operative monitoring cases
Regularly
Otoacoustic emissions
Rarely
Industrial/hearing conservation
Regularly
Vestibular assessments
Never
Vestibular rehabilitation
Regularly
Hearing aids dispensed
Regularly
Hearing aid selection/fitting
Regularly
Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized)
Regularly
Cochlear implant evaluations
Rarely
Cochlear implant rehabilitation
Rarely
Tinnitus assessments
Never
Tinnitus rehabilitation
Rarely
Cerumen management
Research opportunities?
No Residents participate in projects and research as available.
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:
Excel, google form of university evaluation, suitable for tally of ratings from multiple preceptors
Application Deadline:
Sept 22, 2023
Application Requirements:
Letters of Recommendation Resume Transcript Phone interview Letter of request/intent Other List of practicum sites and hours obtained Site specific form to show level of experience with various procedures
Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process:
See above
Contact Person: (preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator)
Minimum qualifications include: Bachelor's degree, current enrollment in Au.D. program and eligible for fourth year Au.D. externship. Candidate must be eligible for Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation Audiology Intern license.
Immediate inquiries should be addressed to Cathy Duncan, Sr. Business Coordinator, Phone: (409) 772-2711, Email: caduncan@utmb.edu. or Deborah L. Carlson, Ph.D. Director, Email: dlcarlso@utmb.edu.
Please SEND hard copies of letter of interest, resume, list of practicum hours and sites, official transcripts and three letters of recommendation to:
Deborah L. Carlson, Ph.D. Associate Professor and Director Center for Audiology & Speech Pathology The University of Texas Medical Branch 301 University Boulevard Galveston, TX 77555-0523
AND
Following the send of application materials, please complete UTMB online application at https://www.utmb.edu/hr/careers - Audiology Resident (2024 job # TBD- posted August 2023).
APPLICATION DEADLINE:
UTMB participates in the Audiology Clinical Education Network (ACEN) and adheres to application, interview, and offer deadlines agreed upon by the network members.
2023 Positions filled
2024 positions: Deadline September 22, 2023 (Job ID available August 2023)
UTMB is a leading academic health sciences center located on the Texas gulf coast. Galveston is located on a barrier island approximately 50 miles south of Houston. UTMB's over 13,000 employees have a well-earned reputation for meeting the health needs of Texas by educating healers and scientists, advancing medical knowledge through research, and by providing innovative health care programs in a highly collaborative environment.The campus includes a 435+ bed academic medical center, 100+ outpatient clinics, and four academic schools. Galveston Island has 32 miles of beachfront, winter temperatures ranging from 50's - 80's, and over 550 historical landmarks. The island has a year round population of 60,000 with 6.5 million visitors per year.