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3rd or 4th year Au.D. Externship in beautiful Bay Area California
Silicon Valley Hearing, Inc.
Application
Details
Posted: 10-Aug-23
Location: Los Gatos, California
Type: Full Time
Salary: Unpaid externship
Categories:
Allied Health
Au.D. Externship
Financial Arrangements:
None
Primary Practice Setting:
Private practice
Required Education:
4 Year Degree
We are seeking an enthusiastic, friendly, engaging, and passionate Au.D. extern, with excellent communication and interpersonal skills for our clinic. Our clinic a busy, state of the art private practice audiology clinic in the heart of the Silicon Valley that offers comprehensive audiologic evaluation, adult hearing aid consultation and rehabilitation, tinnitus evaluation and management, sound sensitivity disorder evaluation and management (hyperacusis and misophonia), pediatric auditory processing disorder evaluation and therapy, cerumen removal and opportunity to learn how to run a private practice audiology clinic. We are seeking strong candidates who wish to have a well-rounded Au.D. externship experience and have some fun along the way. For more information on our office, please visit the website: https://www.siliconvalleyhearing.com/
Silicon Valley Hearing is a clinical, hands-on educational program to satisfy the one-year, offsite, clinical externship coursework requirement for the Au.D. degree program. The Au.D. externship does not entitle the individual to a paid job at the conclusion, and there is no offer, expectation, or promise, express, or implied, of compensation or employment during or after the externship.
Please email full Letter of Intent, Curriculum Vitae outlining your collegiate and Au.D. internship experience, official University transcripts, along with three letters of recommendations to drnovick@siliconvalleyhearing.com by September 22, 2023, for review and consideration of an interview. Decision of Au.D. Externship offer will be made no later than October 24, 2023.
Externship Information:
Primary Practice Setting:
Private practice
Number of Audiologists at the site:
0 FTE Masters Degree 1 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 1 4th year Externships
Financial arrangements:
None
Will interview travel be compensated?
No
Vacation Days:
5
Continuing education opportunities?
Yes Yes.
Start Date:
July 2024
Expected hours/days a week:
40
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:
Should have mastered basic audiometry and masking. Most of the students will gain knowledge and proficiency in all areas of audiology, even if they have not had exposure before their placement with our clinic.
Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship:
In addition to improving skills for comprehensive audiologic evaluations, the Au.D. extern will learn the following additional skills:
1. Perform tinnitus, hyperacusis, and misophonia evaluations and management, using the tinnitus retraining therapy and progressive tinnitus management approaches.
2. Master a full communications needs assessment (including administration of the Acceptable Noise level test, QSIN, BKB-SIN, and other hearing/listening questionnaires) to be able recommend options to patients. Learn how to fit hearing aids from a variety of manufacturers.
3. Be able to discuss various hearing aid technology as it applies to the patients' listening needs and daily living needs.
4. Learn pediatric auditory processing evaluations and provide therapy tools and intervention.
5. Learn and master cerumen removal.
Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:
Rarely
Hearing Screenings
Never
Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler
Regularly
Pediatric evaluations: school-age
Everyday
Adult hearing evaluations
Everyday
Tympanometry
Everyday
Acoustic Reflexes
Regularly
Auditory processing evaluations
Rarely
Hearing Screenings
Never
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
Rarely
Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized)
Rarely
Cochlear implant evaluations
Rarely
Cochlear implant rehabilitation
Regularly
Tinnitus assessments
Regularly
Tinnitus rehabilitation
Regularly
Cerumen management
Research opportunities?
No No
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:
Communication with the University is as needed and as often as the University requires or prefers.
Application Deadline:
September 22, 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:
Contact drnovick@siliconvalleyhearing.com if you have any questions. Deadline for application will be September 22, 2023. Phone interviews will be initiated as applications are submitted. A decision will be made no later than November 4, 2023.
Contact Person: (preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator)
Please email full Letter of Intent, Curriculum Vitae outlining your collegiate and Au.D. internship experience, official University transcripts, along with three letters of recommendations to drnovick@siliconvalleyhearing.com by September 22, 2023, for review and consideration of an interview. Decision of Au.D. Externship offer will be made no later than October 24, 2023.
Silicon Valley Hearing, Inc. is independent private practice located in the heart of the Silicon Valley (Los Gatos). Our practice offers a variety of services which include; comprehensive diagnostic audiology, hearing devices, aural rehabilitation, and testing and management options for tinnitus, hyperacusis and misphonia.
