| Primary Practice Setting: | ENT group practice
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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)
0 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants)
6 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
1 4th year Externships |
| Financial arrangements: | Salary
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| Will interview travel be compensated? | No
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| Vacation Days: | 5 PTO days
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| Continuing education opportunities? | Yes
There may be opportunities for trainings, etc. pending schedule and availability |
| Start Date: | May 2025
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| Expected hours/days a week: | 40
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| Travel to satellite centers required? | Yes
16 miles between each center |
| 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: | 1. Completed their university coursework related to pediatrics
2. Preferred, but not a requirement, at least one or more pediatric practicum placements
3. Preferred, but not a requirement, experience with ABRs |
| Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | 1. Independently perform diagnostic hearing evaluations including: otoscopy, tympanometry, acoustic reflexes, BOA, VRA and CPA as well as speech testing using standard and pediatric testing methods
2. Independently perform OAE evaluations and unsedated ABR evaluations
3. Independently complete pediatric hearing aid evaluations and fittings with conventional and bone conduction hearing aids
4. Independently perform listening checks and troubleshooting of hearing aids
5. Identify appropriate pediatric candidates for cochlear implantation
6. Gain competency in cochlear implant evaluations, initial stimulations, mapping and rehabilitation of children with implants
7. Gain competency in patient, family, and caregiver education and counseling
8. Gain competency in the accompanying written documentation and verbal communication needed to administer care
9. Understand and inform parents in an unbiased manner regarding educational and communication options in the community |
Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:
| | Regularly | Hearing Screenings | | Everyday | Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler | | Everyday | Pediatric evaluations: school-age | | Never | Adult hearing evaluations | | Everyday | Tympanometry | | Rarely | Acoustic Reflexes | | Never | Auditory processing evaluations | | Regularly | Hearing Screenings | | Regularly | Evoked potential assessments | | Never | Intra-operative monitoring cases | | Everyday | Otoacoustic emissions | | Never | Industrial/hearing conservation | | Never | Vestibular assessments | | Never | Vestibular rehabilitation | | Regularly | Hearing aids dispensed | | Regularly | Hearing aid selection/fitting | | Rarely | Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) | | Regularly | Cochlear implant evaluations | | Regularly | Cochlear implant rehabilitation | | Never | Tinnitus assessments | | Never | Tinnitus rehabilitation | | Never | Cerumen management | |
| Research opportunities? | Yes
No |
| 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: | Standard communication as needed |
| Application Deadline: | 9/15/2024 |
| Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation
Resume
Phone interview
Letter of request/intent
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| Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: | Please email Kayla Glaser, AUD CCC-A at glaser@entforchildren.net if interested in applying |
Contact Person:
(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Kayla Glaser - glaser@entforchildren.net |
| Are all externs supervised? | Yes
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