Primary Practice Setting: | Private practice |
Number of Audiologists at the site:
| 0 FTE Masters Degree 2 FTE Au.D. 0 FTE Ph.D. 0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD) 1 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants) 3 FTE Clerical Support Staff |
Number of Audiology Students each year:
| 1 1st year AuD Clinical Rotations 1 2nd year 1 3rd year 1 4th year Externships |
Financial arrangements: | Salary |
Will interview travel be compensated? | No |
Vacation Days: | 5 |
Continuing education opportunities? | Yes |
Start Date: | Spring/Summer 2025 |
Expected hours/days a week: | 40 hrs |
Travel to satellite centers required? | Yes 25 miles |
Local students preferred: | Yes |
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: | Good foundation with Audiological testing and exposure to pediatric testing. |
Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | Diagnostic hearing testing including pure tone air and bone conduction, speech audiometry, hearing aid consultations, aural rehabilitation, hearing aid fittings, service and repair, OAE testing, ABR testing (pediatric to adults), vestibular testing, APD evaluations, earmold production, tinnitus, implantable devices. |
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 | Everyday | Tympanometry | Everyday | Acoustic Reflexes | Regularly | Auditory processing evaluations | Regularly | Hearing Screenings | Regularly | Evoked potential assessments | Never | Intra-operative monitoring cases | Regularly | Otoacoustic emissions | Regularly | Industrial/hearing conservation | Regularly | Vestibular assessments | Regularly | 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 | Everyday | 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
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Communication or other support do expected or required from the university during the externship: | Contract or agreements in regards to student conductivity, grades, reporting platforms. |
Application Deadline: | Until Filled |
Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation Resume Transcript Phone interview Letter of request/intent |
Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: | Send application materials as a complete package and 3 letters of recommendation to careers@fuelmedical.com |
Contact Person: (preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Nicole Anzalone, AuD., CCC-A - nicole@syracusehearing.com |
Are all externs supervised? | Yes |