Primary Practice Setting: | Hospital |
Number of Audiologists at the site:
| 2 FTE Masters Degree 7 FTE Au.D. 0 FTE Ph.D. 0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD) 6 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants) 1 FTE Clerical Support Staff |
Number of Audiology Students each year:
| 0 1st year AuD Clinical Rotations 1 2nd year 1 3rd year 1 4th year Externships |
Financial arrangements: | Other – Please Describe Will cover the cost of 1 audiology conference and hearing aid dispensing license exam for state of California |
Will interview travel be compensated? | No |
Vacation Days: | Approximately 15 |
Continuing education opportunities? | Yes Externs are allowed to attend local workshops such as CI programming workshops, manufacturer specific workshops, or hearing aid CEU trainings. |
Start Date: | June 2023 |
Expected hours/days a week: | 40 |
Travel to satellite centers required? | Yes 20 miles |
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: | - Experience with pediatric audiological evaluations - Otoscopy, tympanometry, acoustic reflex measurement - Experience with pediatric hearing aid fitting - Experience with cochlear implant/bone conduction devices |
Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | - Pediatric Diagnostic Assessment Competency - Evoked Potential (ABR, ASSR, CAEP) Competency - Amplification Competency - CI/Bone Conduction Device Competency |
Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:
| Everyday | Hearing Screenings | Everyday | Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler | Everyday | Pediatric evaluations: school-age | Regularly | Adult hearing evaluations | Everyday | Tympanometry | Everyday | Acoustic Reflexes | Regularly | Auditory processing evaluations | Everyday | Hearing Screenings | Regularly | Evoked potential assessments | Never | Intra-operative monitoring cases | Everyday | Otoacoustic emissions | Never | Industrial/hearing conservation | Never | Vestibular assessments | Never | Vestibular rehabilitation | Everyday | Hearing aids dispensed | Everyday | Hearing aid selection/fitting | Never | Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) | Regularly | Cochlear implant evaluations | Regularly | Cochlear implant rehabilitation | Rarely | Tinnitus assessments | Rarely | Tinnitus rehabilitation | Never | Cerumen management | |
Research opportunities? | Yes Research opportunities are limited but available |
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: | Updates re: changes in requirements or needs for the students Reminders re: any reviews/documentation needed from the hospital |
Application Deadline: | 10/15/2023 |
Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation Resume Transcript Phone interview Letter of request/intent |
Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: | Please e-mail resume, transcript (unofficial okay), letter of intent, and letters of recommendation directly to me at breanna.reed@ucsf.edu. Once the position closes on 10/15, phone interviews will be initiated and the final selection will be made not later than 11/1/2022. In person interviews are not required but are allowed (travel/expenses not covered by the hospital). |
Contact Person: (preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Breanna Reed - breanna.reed@ucsf.edu |
Are all externs supervised? | Yes |