Primary Practice Setting: | Private practice |
Number of Audiologists at the site:
| 1 FTE Masters Degree 1 FTE Au.D. 5 FTE Ph.D. 0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD) 0 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants) 8 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: | 5+holiday/clinic clo |
Continuing education opportunities? | Yes Yes monthly CEU's and learning experiences |
Start Date: | June 2024 |
Expected hours/days a week: | 40 hrs/week |
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: | Our site expects the student to have mastered audiologic evaluations of adults. Proficient knowledge of the vestibular system with at least 1 rotation performing vestibular work throughout your schooling is essential. |
Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | During your externship, it is expected that you will become proficient in vestibular diagnosis and treatment. |
Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:
| Never | Hearing Screenings | Never | Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler | Never | Pediatric evaluations: school-age | Rarely | Adult hearing evaluations | Everyday | Tympanometry | Everyday | Acoustic Reflexes | Never | Auditory processing evaluations | Never | Hearing Screenings | Everyday | Evoked potential assessments | Never | Intra-operative monitoring cases | Everyday | Otoacoustic emissions | Never | Industrial/hearing conservation | Everyday | Vestibular assessments | Everyday | Vestibular rehabilitation | Never | Hearing aids dispensed | Never | Hearing aid selection/fitting | Never | Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) | Never | Cochlear implant evaluations | Never | Cochlear implant rehabilitation | Never | Tinnitus assessments | Never | Tinnitus rehabilitation | Regularly | Cerumen management | |
Research opportunities? | Yes Ongoing research in the vestibular lab |
Consortium or collaborative arrangements with other sites? | Yes We work with a CA and NY team on research and new treatment options |
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: | none |
Application Deadline: | October 5, 2023 |
Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation Resume Phone interview Letter of request/intent We request 3 letters of recommendation Resume and Personal Statement of interest in vestibular disorders
Please submit all materials to: wlupo@dizzybalance.com wlupo@dizzybalance.com
We will confirm once all materials are received. If selected we will contact you to proceed with phone interviews in our first round Second round of interviews is done via Zoom/Facetime |
Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: | Submit all requirements to wlupo@dizzybalance.com
If selected we will contact you to proceed with our interview process: Round 1 will be phone interviews, top candidates will then proceed to round 2 Zoom interviews. Final Decisions Made by October 20th, 2023. |
Contact Person: (preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Jaime Carmody, MS - Owner/University Liason Whitney Lupo, AuD - Applications Manager - wlupo@dizzybalance.com |
Are all externs supervised? | Yes |