Primary Practice Setting: | Private practice |
Number of Audiologists at the site:
| 0 FTE Masters Degree 3 FTE Au.D. 0 FTE Ph.D. 0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD) 0 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants) 2 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: | Salary Benefits |
Will interview travel be compensated? | No |
Vacation Days: | 10 |
Continuing education opportunities? | Yes We seek out opportunities for an encourage participation in continuing education opportunities both on- and off-site. We welcome student participation in professional conferences. |
Start Date: | May/June 2023 |
Expected hours/days a week: | 35-40 |
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: | Diagnostics: •Pure tone audiometry •Speech audiometry •Masking •Immittance measures •DPOAEs
Hearing Aids/Rehabilitation: •Ear impression taking •Hearing aid troubleshooting, basic |
Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | Goals and Activities: Diagnostic: •Determine appropriate test battery for each patient based on their age, ability, and complaints •Master standard audiometry, including masking, word recognition testing •Perform and interpret immittance testing including multi-frequency and wideband tympanometry, acoustic reflex threshold and decay testing) and distortion product otoacoustic emissions •Perform and interpret newborn diagnostic measurements including chirp ABR, ASSR, DPOAE's, tympanometry and wideband acoustic immittance. •Comfortably perform behavioral testing on pediatric, differently abled, and/or difficult-to-test patients including VRA and CPA as well as subjective measures •Organize, perform, score and interpret an auditory processing test battery for both children and adults •Conduct audiological and needs evaluation for patients with tinnitus •Independently assess patients for cochlear implant candidacy •Interpret results of test battery and identify approximate site of lesion and areas of concern •Identify need for outside evaluation (vestibular/balance, ENT, etc.) •Be familiar with common chronic diseases and genetic syndromes, and identify ways in which they can cause, affect, or be affected by hearing loss Amplification/Rehabilitation: •Practice "whole-patient" audiological care and use shared decision making in development of care plans •Be knowledgeable about and independent in selecting the appropriate hearing aids (style, technologies, appropriate acoustic coupling), manufacturer benefits and limitations, clean and basic in-house repair techniques •Formulate treatment plans that extend beyond hearing aids (i.e. implantable devices, low- and high-tech accessories, strategies, therapies, auditory training, etc.) •Perform hearing aid test measures such as on-ear and test-box verification; measure real ear to coupler difference values; and interpret the results of these tests as they may pertain to both amplification and auditory system function •Counsel parents on newborn diagnostic results including childhood hearing loss, hearing technologies, growth and development, and aural rehabilitation. •Perform mapping tasks based on patient needs, and counsel patients on outcome measures (qualitative and quantitative). •Create rehabilitation plan for auditory processing disorders •Develop effective treatment plans for auditory processing disorders and tinnitus utilizing direct remediation, compensatory strategies, environmental modifications and integrating innovative technologies (such as the Lenire tinnitus treatment device, Amptify, or Acoustic Pioneer auditory training) •Be comfortable with recommendation of and able to program and counsel on use of hearing aid accessories and remote microphone technologies |
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 | Regularly | Tympanometry | Regularly | Acoustic Reflexes | Regularly | Auditory processing evaluations | Regularly | Hearing Screenings | Regularly | Evoked potential assessments | Never | Intra-operative monitoring cases | Regularly | Otoacoustic emissions | Rarely | Industrial/hearing conservation | Never | Vestibular assessments | Never | Vestibular rehabilitation | Everyday | Hearing aids dispensed | Everyday | Hearing aid selection/fitting | Everyday | Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) | Regularly | Cochlear implant evaluations | Regularly | Cochlear implant rehabilitation | Regularly | Tinnitus assessments | Regularly | Tinnitus rehabilitation | Regularly | Cerumen management | |
Research opportunities? | Yes We have performed independent research in the past that has been presented at the AAA Conference. We welcome ideas for and development of independent research projects. |
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: | Open line of written and verbal communication throughout placement between student and preceptors |
Application Deadline: | September 22, 2023 |
Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation Resume Phone interview Letter of request/intent Other -All initial interviews (and possibly all) will be virtual -3 letters of recommendation required, at least one should be non-clinical and reflective of character |
Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: | Letters of recommendation should be mailed, faxed, or emailed directly to externship site. Please put "Externship Application" in the subject line |
Contact Person: (preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Sarah Curtis, Au.D. - drcurtis@soundsoflifehc.com |
Are all externs supervised? | Yes |