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Nebraska-Western Iowa VA Medical Center PAID 4th Year Audiology Externship
Nebraska-Western Iowa VA Medical Center
Application
Details
Posted: 06-Aug-24
Location: Omaha
Type: Full Time
Categories:
Allied Health
Au.D. Externship
Financial Arrangements:
Salary
Benefits
Primary Practice Setting:
VA medical center
Required Education:
4 Year Degree
Additional Information:
3 openings available.
NWIHCS has one main campus hospital, a new suburban-Omaha clinic with Audiology services, and six Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOC). The Omaha campus recently expanded with a new state of the art ancillary care and surgery clinic and a rehabilitation services clinic. Our NWIHCS Audiology team is staffed with 15 audiologists and 4 Health Technicians across 3 campuses. The NWIHCS Audiology team offers two to three challenging and comprehensive externships annually. One position serves at the Omaha main campus, and one is at the Lincoln, Nebraska CBOC. The externships are 12-month full-time (2080 hours) positions with an anticipated start date in June of 2025.
Application packages are submitted to Omaha and Lincoln sites separately. Historically, our traineeships have been funded by the Office of Academic Affiliations (OAA). Although we anticipate funding by OAA for these positions, this is at the discretion of OAA, pending budget approval. Students must be a U.S. Citizen to apply.
CLINICAL OPPORTUNITIES AT NWI:
Comprehensive audiological evaluations
Immittance Measures
Otoacoustic Immittance Testing
Hearing Aid Assessments and Fittings, including real ear measures
Assistive Listening Device assessments
Comprehensive vestibular evaluations
Cochlear Implant Evaluations, Mapping/Management
Osseointegrated Evaluations and Programming/Management
Auditory processing evaluations
Electrophysiology evaluations
Audiology inpatient management
Ototoxic monitoring
Tele-Audiology services to 4 rural clinics
Progressive Tinnitus Management program
Auditory Implant surgical observations on-site
Multi-Disciplinary Opportunities
Our clinicians and externs enjoy a fast-paced and challenging caseload between scheduled appointments and our walk-in clinic for hearing aid patients.
Students must be a U.S. Citizen to apply.
Students must have completed 3-years of didactic and clinical skill training as required by their respective university to be eligible to proceed with a 4th year Audiology Externship.
Externship Information:
Primary Practice Setting:
VA medical center
Number of Audiologists at the site:
4 FTE Masters Degree 11 FTE Au.D. 1 FTE Ph.D. 0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD) 4 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants) 3 FTE Clerical Support Staff
Number of Audiology Students each year:
2 1st year AuD Clinical Rotations 2 2nd year 2 3rd year 2 4th year Externships
Financial arrangements:
Salary Benefits
Will interview travel be compensated?
No
Vacation Days:
13
Continuing education opportunities?
Yes Externs have the opportunity to participate in multiple CEU offerings throughout the one year rotation.
Start Date:
June 2025
Expected hours/days a week:
40
Travel to satellite centers required?
Yes 5 miles to suburban Omaha satellite 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:
*Veteran centered care delivery. * Understanding and demonstration of foundational audiological principles and techniques. *Emerging skills in subspecialty areas.
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
Rarely
Auditory processing evaluations
Rarely
Hearing Screenings
Rarely
Evoked potential assessments
Rarely
Intra-operative monitoring cases
Regularly
Otoacoustic emissions
Rarely
Industrial/hearing conservation
Regularly
Vestibular assessments
Never
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
Rarely
Tinnitus assessments
Rarely
Tinnitus rehabilitation
Regularly
Cerumen management
Research opportunities?
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:
Deadlines for mid-term and final evaluations/assessments, program expectations, support for remediation if needed
Application Deadline:
9/18/2024
Application Requirements:
Letters of Recommendation Resume Transcript Phone interview Letter of request/intent
Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process:
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 the application process: Please electronically submit all required materials to: NWI-Omaha main campus program: Jodi.Winfrey@va.gov Lincoln CBOC campus program: Hillary.Howard@va.gov
Contact Person: (preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator)
Students must have completed 3-years of didactic and clinical skill training as required by their respective university to be eligible to proceed with a 4th year Audiology Externship.
Nebraska Western Iowa Health Care System (NWIHCS) has two 4th year Audiology Extern positions (Omaha and Lincoln campuses). Omaha VA Medical Center is a multi-site clinic comprised of one main hospital and 6 community based outpatient clinics (CBOC). The main hospital is located in Omaha and NWI also has direct audiology services in Lincoln and Grand Island, as well as telemedicine services at 4 CBOCs. The Audiology program at the Nebraska-Western Iowa Health Care System Healthcare system in Omaha includes eight audiologists and two health technicians. Audiology services provided include general diagnostics, amplification selection and fitting, progressive tinnitus management, TeleAudiology, comprehensive VNG (VEMP and vHIT), cochlear implant mappings and intraoperative monitoring, central auditory processing evaluations, and electrophysiological testing. The Lincoln Campus is a newly constructed facility that has five Audiologists and one health technician. Services are similar to Omaha with the exception of Vestibular and Cochlear Implant surgical monitoring.
