| Primary Practice Setting: | Hospital
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Number of Audiologists at the site:
| 0 FTE Masters Degree
3 FTE Au.D.
0 FTE Ph.D.
0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD)
1 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants)
0 FTE Clerical Support Staff
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Number of Audiology Students each year:
| 0 1st year AuD Clinical Rotations
0 2nd year
0 3rd year
2 4th year Externships |
| Financial arrangements: | Other – Please Describe
Meals will be provided through the hospital cafeteria the days you are in clinic. |
| Will interview travel be compensated? | No
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| Vacation Days: | 16
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| Continuing education opportunities? | Yes
Yes |
| Start Date: | 06/03/2024
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| Expected hours/days a week: | 40
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| Travel to satellite centers required? | Yes
Extern may be able to travel with preceptor to certain outreach sites. |
| Local students preferred: | No
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| 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
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| Externship site expects the extern to have mastered these skills before they begin their clinical externship: | Externs should be able to demonstrate knowledge and skill to perform the basic battery for behavioral hearing evaluations for normal developing children and adults. |
| Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | Externs will be able to demonstrate independence in performing diagnostic hearing evaluations, vestibular evaluations, hearing aid programming and verification, implant evaluations, newborn hearing screenings, and ABRs. |
Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:
| | Regularly | Hearing Screenings | | Regularly | Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler | | Regularly | Pediatric evaluations: school-age | | Everyday | Adult hearing evaluations | | Everyday | Tympanometry | | Regularly | Acoustic Reflexes | | Never | Auditory processing evaluations | | Regularly | Hearing Screenings | | Regularly | Evoked potential assessments | | Never | Intra-operative monitoring cases | | Regularly | Otoacoustic emissions | | Rarely | 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 | | Rarely | Cochlear implant rehabilitation | | Never | Tinnitus assessments | | Never | Tinnitus rehabilitation | | Rarely | Cerumen management | |
| Research opportunities? | No
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| Consortium or collaborative arrangements with other sites? | No
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| 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: | University staff will be contacted as needed to discuss student concerns and when performance evaluations are required. |
| Application Deadline: | 09/22/2023 |
| Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation
Resume
Transcript
Phone interview
Letter of request/intent
To be eligible to apply for the Audiology Externship, applicants must currently be enrolled in an accredited Doctor of Audiology program. Accepted externs must obtain a temporary Minnesota doctoral externship license. Interested applicants should e-mail the requirements to Dr. Jennifer "Jenne" Tunnell at tunnell.jennifer@mayo.edu.
Letter of Intent
Resume
Graduate Transcript(s)
Three Letters of Recommendation |
| Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: | The application cycle will be open from now through September 22, 2023. Interviews and offers will follow the Audiology Clinical Education Network timeline. Interviewing applicants will occur between September 25 through October 20, 2023.
Offers may be extended beginning September 25, 2023, although students can not be required to respond prior to October 24, 2023. Said offer stands until October 24, 2023, 6 pm CT. Students can choose to respond at an earlier date/time.
Response Deadline: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 (6 pm CT)
Subsequent Offers Begin: Tuesday, October 24, 2023 (6 pm CT)
Reposting unfilled positions: Tuesday October 24, 2023 (6 pm CT) |
Contact Person:
(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Jennifer Tunnell, Au.D. - tunnell.jennifer@mayo.edu |
| Are all externs supervised? | Yes
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