Primary Practice Setting: | University medical center |
Number of Audiologists at the site:
| 0 FTE Masters Degree 7 FTE Au.D. 0 FTE Ph.D. 0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD) 0 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants) 1 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 |
Will interview travel be compensated? | No |
Vacation Days: | 10 |
Continuing education opportunities? | Yes Externs are encouraged to attend local conferences and surgical grand rounds offered both through Yale University School of Medicine, Yale New Haven Hospital, and in the audiology community. |
Start Date: | ~June 1, 2024 |
Expected hours/days a week: | 40 |
Travel to satellite centers required? | Yes With expanding audiology service locations, audiology externs will have their clinical experience primarily based at our New Haven however will have opportunities to provide diagnostic services with providers in our Old Saybrook, Stratford, and Greenwich locations. |
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: | -Take a complete case history -Strong report writing skills -Competently perform all diagnostic evaluations -Critically think about each case presented -Solid foundation in hearing aids, cochlear implants, and ossiointegrated devices -Good counseling skills for patients of all ages & backgrounds -Working knowledge on vestibular evaluations |
Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | -Proficiency with online electronic medical record keeping -Proficiency in report writing -Independently perform all diagnostic evaluations -Critically thinking about each case presented -Proficient in counseling, selection, and fitting of hearing aids, cochlear implants and bone anchored devices -Independently perform a full vestibular evaluation -Observations and participation in sedated otology coordinated cases |
Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:
| Regularly | Hearing Screenings | Rarely | Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler | Rarely | Pediatric evaluations: school-age | Regularly | Adult hearing evaluations | Regularly | Tympanometry | Regularly | Acoustic Reflexes | Never | Auditory processing evaluations | Regularly | Hearing Screenings | Regularly | Evoked potential assessments | Never | Intra-operative monitoring cases | Regularly | Otoacoustic emissions | Regularly | 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 | Regularly | Tinnitus assessments | Regularly | Tinnitus rehabilitation | Rarely | Cerumen management | |
Research opportunities? | Yes Externs encouraged to participate in educational, manufacturers, and work-related case studies. A clinically relevant research project for presentation or publication is encouraged. |
Consortium or collaborative arrangements with other sites? | No |
How frequently will the externship site communicate with the university during the externship? | As Needed
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Communication or other support do expected or required from the university during the externship: | An affiliation agreement must be signed between the universities before an offer letter can be generated. Required student evaluation paperwork should be submitted prior to externship start date. |
Application Deadline: | September 22, 2023 |
Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation Resume Transcript Phone interview Letter of request/intent Other All application requirements (including cover letter, resume, and transcripts) should be submitted as one complete packet and emailed to yalehearing@yale.edu or mailed to our clinic via certified mail.
Two letters of recommendation can be emailed directly from references to yalehearing@yale.edu
If a completed packet is mailed, it should be sent to:
Yale Hearing and Balance Center Attention: Jennifer Hopper, AuD 800 Howard Avenue 4th Floor Room 468 New Haven, CT 06519
All selected applicants must complete one or more phone and/or video interviews with Yale Hearing and Balance Center. |
Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: | Yale Hearing and Balance Center participated in the Audiology Clinical Education Network in an effort to standardize the externship application process. A standard timeline aims to increase efficiency for students, academic programs, and externship institutions.
Externship Application Timeline: September 22, 2023: Deadline for submitting a completed application October 2, 3, 4 & 10, 2023: Zoom 1st Round Virtual Interviews between 11am-2 pm EST October 18, 2023: 2nd Round Virtual Interviews with times offered between 8am-5pm EST Externship offers extended in accordance with ACEN guidelines |
Contact Person: (preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Jennifer Hopper, AuD - yalehearing@yale.edu |
Are all externs supervised? | Yes |