| Primary Practice Setting: | Private practice
University medical center
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Number of Audiologists at the site:
| 0 FTE Masters Degree
8 FTE Au.D.
0 FTE Ph.D.
2 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD)
2 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants)
2 FTE Clerical Support Staff
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Number of Audiology Students each year:
| 0 1st year AuD Clinical Rotations
1 2nd year
1 3rd year
2 4th year Externships |
| Financial arrangements: | Stipend
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| Will interview travel be compensated? | No
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| Vacation Days: | available
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| Continuing education opportunities? | Yes
Yes |
| Start Date: | Around Memorial Day
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| Expected hours/days a week: | 40
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| Travel to satellite centers required? | No
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| 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: | Audiologic evaluations (conventional, play, and VRA/COR).
Middle ear analysis.
Otoacoustic emissions.
Real-ear measurement.
Hearing aid programming |
| Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | Videonystagmography
Auditory brainstem response (tonal/threshold)
Auditory Steady State Response
Electrocochleography
Cortical Auditory Evoked Potentials
Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials
Rotary chair
Auditory processing evaluations
Cochlear implants
Bone conduction devices |
Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:
| | Rarely | Hearing Screenings | | Everyday | Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler | | Everyday | Pediatric evaluations: school-age | | Everyday | Adult hearing evaluations | | Everyday | Tympanometry | | Everyday | Acoustic Reflexes | | Regularly | Auditory processing evaluations | | Rarely | Hearing Screenings | | Regularly | Evoked potential assessments | | Rarely | Intra-operative monitoring cases | | Everyday | Otoacoustic emissions | | Rarely | Industrial/hearing conservation | | Regularly | Vestibular assessments | | Never | 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 | | Rarely | Tinnitus assessments | | Rarely | Tinnitus rehabilitation | | Never | Cerumen management | |
| Research opportunities? | Yes
Occasional industry sponsored research.
Department directed research/data collection for quality improvement projects. |
| Consortium or collaborative arrangements with other sites? | Yes
The externship includes 50% of the resident's time spent in a private practice on campus for hearing aid dispensing (children and adults) and adult diagnostics. |
| 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: | Affiliation agreement is required prior to commencing the externship. |
| Application Deadline: | 9/18/24 - ACEN |
| Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation
Resume
Transcript
Phone interview
Letter of request/intent
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| Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: | Please submit letter of intent, resume, transcripts, and letters of intent via email to kenneth.bodkin@hmhn.org. If the candidate or university program coordinator have any questions, feel free to call 551-996-5126 or email kenneth.bodkin@hmhn.org. |
Contact Person:
(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Kenneth Bodkin - kenneth.bodkin@hmhn.org |
| Are all externs supervised? | Yes
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