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The Audiology program at Boston Children's Hospital offers two final-year externships beginning in early June and ending May of the following year. Externs will receive 11 months of patient care experience under the supervision of licensed audiology preceptors. Applicants should be driven to pursue a career in pediatric audiology following completion of their tenure at Boston Children’s Hospital.
Externs are provided with supervision by a range of experienced pediatric audiologists. All staff hold either the ASHA CCC-A or ABA Board Certification in Audiology in addition to the Massachusetts state license in audiology. Many staff have the ABA Pediatric Specialty Certificate, Cochlear Implant Specialty Certificate or both. Most staff members have completed the Certificate Holder-Audiology Preceptor (CHAP) training program. Supervision from an audiologist with the CCC-A is not guaranteed.
Externs rotate between two sites in our audiology program. Externs will be exposed to all aspects of pediatric audiological evaluation and case management, including all behavioral audiometry techniques and objective test measures, selection of hearing assistance technology, and determination of educational accommodations for children with hearing loss. The externship year begins with focused training on diagnostic services in our Boston and Waltham locations. Subsequent rotations focus on hearing aid fittings and inpatient services (Boston) and cochlear implant mapping (Waltham).
We expect that externs will come with substantial pediatric audiology experience and have basic competence with all behavioral test techniques. Applicants should also have an understanding of and exposure to frequency-specific threshold ABR assessment on infants and young children. Upon completion of training, we expect the extern to be competent in providing detailed assessment and audiologic case management of complex pediatric patients.
We will be voluntarily following the application timeline proposed by the Audiology Clinical Education Network.
Applicants should submit their letter of intent, curriculum vitae, graduate transcripts (official or unofficial) and three Boston Children’s Hospital recommendation forms. We recommend that at least one of the recommendations be from an audiologist who supervised a pediatric placement and can speak to your relative strengths in this area.
Additionally, applicants must submit a one-page, single-spaced response to the following: “Describe a clinical situation that you have observed or participated in that will have a lasting impact on you professionally”. Application materials should be submitted electronically to the following website:
1 FTE Masters Degree 33 FTE Au.D. 2 FTE Ph.D. 2 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD) 7 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants) 6 FTE Clerical Support Staff
Number of Audiology Students each year:
0 1st year AuD Clinical Rotations 2 2nd year 2 3rd year 2 4th year Externships
Financial arrangements:
Stipend
Will interview travel be compensated?
No
Vacation Days:
To be discussed
Continuing education opportunities?
Yes Audiology externs are also enrolled in the LEND (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities) Fellowship program through the Institute for Community Inclusion. This leadership training is one day per week from September to May and involves social policy and public health training. Please see their website for more details (www.communityinclusion.org/project).
Continuing education events are held on occasion within the department. Opportunities may also arise in the community.
Start Date:
June 2024
Expected hours/days a week:
40 hours/5 days
Travel to satellite centers required?
Yes Our Waltham center is approximately 10 miles from the main Boston hospital campus. It is accessible by a shuttle bus and/or has free on site parking.
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:
The ideal candidate will meet the following criteria: •Substantial experience in all facets of pediatric audiometric evaluation including VRA, CPA, tympanometry and DPOAE. •Academic background and experience with frequency-specific threshold ABR. •Academic background and experience with pediatric hearing aid fitting utilizing the DSL fitting protocol and on-ear test measures. •Academic background and interest in pediatric cochlear implants. •Professional interpersonal skills with parents, children, and preceptors.
Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship:
During the externship, the student will develop the following skills and knowledge: •Proficiency and independence in all facets of the diagnostic process including testing, interpretation and counseling. •Approaches to working with children with complex medical conditions and diagnoses. •Approaches to working with children and families from other countries and cultures. •Approaches to working in multi-disciplinary teams. •Proficiency with hearing aid fitting, hearing assistance technology and educational recommendations for children who are deaf or hard of hearing. •Understanding of maternal and child health policies and laws, multi-cultural and disadvantaged families and social policy through the LEND (Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities) Fellowship program.
Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:
Never
Hearing Screenings
Everyday
Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler
Everyday
Pediatric evaluations: school-age
Rarely
Adult hearing evaluations
Everyday
Tympanometry
Regularly
Acoustic Reflexes
Rarely
Auditory processing evaluations
Never
Hearing Screenings
Regularly
Evoked potential assessments
Rarely
Intra-operative monitoring cases
Regularly
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)
Regularly
Cochlear implant evaluations
Rarely
Cochlear implant rehabilitation
Regularly
Tinnitus assessments
Never
Tinnitus rehabilitation
Never
Cerumen management
Research opportunities?
Yes As part of their participation in the LEND program, Audiology externs are expected to perform a research or community project that culminates in a poster presentation at the annual EHDI meeting. Additional research opportunities may be available for students with interest in research pending the availability of supervision.
Consortium or collaborative arrangements with other sites?
Yes To augment the final year experience, regular virtual meetings with other area externship sites are scheduled. Meetings focus on case studies, counseling, the job search process and other areas of focus of interest indicated by the students.
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:
Universities must have an educational training contract on file with Boston Children's Hospital prior to the start of the externship. Upon being offered an externship, students should put the clinical coordinator for the university in contact with our Specialty Audiologist for Education and Training.
During the externship, communication with the university along with required evaluation forms will occur as needed and required.
Application Deadline:
September 22, 2023
Application Requirements:
Letters of Recommendation Resume Transcript Letter of request/intent Other Applicants must submit three Boston Children's Hospital recommendation forms. This form will be emailed to those individuals the applicant indicates on the application site. We recommend that at least one recommendation come from a clinical preceptor who can speak to your skills and experiences in pediatrics.
Applicants must include a maximum one-page, single-spaced response to the following: "Describe a clinical situation that you have observed or participated in that will have a lasting impact on you professionally."
Applicants who pass the initial review of their application materials will be scheduled for a virtual interview to begin the week of September 25, 2023. Following the initial interviews, a select group will be invited for a virtual interview the morning of Friday October 6, 2023 (date fixed). Externship offers will be extended following the virtual interview date. A decision on offers must be received by Tuesday October 24, 2023. These dates have been recommended by the Audiology Clinical Education Network.
Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process:
Once the applicant has been offered and accepted the externship position, the university clinical coordinator should contact our Specialty Audiologist for Education and Training to ensure that a contract is either active or can be negotiated in advance of the extern's start date.
Contact Person: (preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator)
Applicants should submit their letter of intent, curriculum vitae, graduate transcripts (official or unofficial) and three Boston Children’s Hospital recommendation forms. We recommend that at least one of the recommendations be from an audiologist who supervised a pediatric placement and can speak to your relative strengths in this area.
Additionally, applicants must submit a one-page, single-spaced response to the following: “Describe a clinical situation that you have observed or participated in that will have a lasting impact on you professionally”. Application materials should be submitted electronically to the following website:
Boston Children’s Hospital is a 400+ bed comprehensive center for pediatric health care, first founded in 1869, and is frequently named the Number One Pediatric Hospital by US News and World Report. It is home to the world's largest pediatric research enterprise, and it is the leading recipient of pediatric research funding from the National Institutes of Health. It is the primary pediatric teaching hospital for Harvard Medical School. Boston Children’s treats more children with rare diseases and complex conditions than any other hospital. As one of the largest and oldest pediatric medical centers in the United States, Children’s offers a complete range of health care services for children from birth to 21 years of age. We have approximately 25,000 inpatient admissions each year, 40 clinical departments and 250+ specialized clinical programs.
