Primary Practice Setting: | Community medical center VA medical center |
Number of Audiologists at the site:
| 0 FTE Masters Degree 23 FTE Au.D. 0 FTE Ph.D. 0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD) 10 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants) 5 FTE Clerical Support Staff |
Number of Audiology Students each year:
| 0 1st year AuD Clinical Rotations 0 2nd year 0 3rd year 3 4th year Externships |
Financial arrangements: | Stipend Benefits Other – Please Describe Funding is assigned by the Office of Academic Affairs (OAA) and may not have been determined by the application deadline. OAA funding is announced nationally at the same time which should allow sites to know funding at approximately the same time. Due to the breadth and depth of our training program, historically at our site we have been awarded the maximum allocation of funded 4th year externships each 3 years application cycle. After the September 20 deadline, all applications are reviewed and interview requests are sent out to students soon thereafter. Selections will be made NLT October 20. |
Will interview travel be compensated? | No |
Vacation Days: | All federal holidays |
Continuing education opportunities? | Yes Externs are offered and involved in the same on-site (or virtual) training opportunities available to full-time staff. Funded externs are permitted to request approval to attend off-site trainings as they are available. |
Start Date: | June 2025 |
Expected hours/days a week: | 40 hrs/wk; M-F |
Travel to satellite centers required? | Yes 31 miles from the Medical Center |
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: | Knowledge and skills consistent with completion of 3 years in a clinical and didactic program of study in an accredited AuD program. |
Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | 1. Veteran centered care delivery 2. Understanding and demonstration of foundational audiological principles and techniques. 3. Emerging skills in subspecialty areas such as implantables, vestibular assessment, and progressive tinnitus management. |
Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:
| Rarely | Hearing Screenings | Never | Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler | Never | Pediatric evaluations: school-age | Everyday | Adult hearing evaluations | Everyday | Tympanometry | Everyday | Acoustic Reflexes | Never | Auditory processing evaluations | Rarely | Hearing Screenings | Regularly | Evoked potential assessments | Never | Intra-operative monitoring cases | Regularly | Otoacoustic emissions | Rarely | Industrial/hearing conservation | Regularly | Vestibular assessments | Regularly | Vestibular rehabilitation | Everyday | Hearing aids dispensed | Everyday | Hearing aid selection/fitting | Regularly | Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) | Regularly | Cochlear implant evaluations | Regularly | Cochlear implant rehabilitation | Regularly | Tinnitus assessments | Regularly | Tinnitus rehabilitation | Regularly | Cerumen management | |
Research opportunities? | No No current research offerings; however, students may certainly participate if opportunities become 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: | Deadlines for evaluations/assessments, program expectations, etc. |
Application Deadline: | September 20 |
Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation Resume Transcript Phone interview Letter of request/intent Cover letter CV/resume 3 letters of recommendation Graduate and Undergraduate transcripts (unofficial or official) Virtual interview required |
Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: | Please electronically submit all required materials to: sarah.hallowitz@va.gov |
Contact Person: (preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Sarah Hallowitz - sarah.hallowitz@va.gov |
Are all externs supervised? | Yes |