| Primary Practice Setting: | Community speech and hearing center
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Number of Audiologists at the site:
| 0 FTE Masters Degree
2 FTE Au.D.
0 FTE Ph.D.
0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD)
0 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
0 2nd year
1 3rd year
1 4th year Externships |
| Financial arrangements: | Stipend
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| Will interview travel be compensated? | No
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| Vacation Days: | Variable
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| Continuing education opportunities? | Yes
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| Start Date: | June/July 2025
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| Expected hours/days a week: | 40 hrs/5 days per wk
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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: | Comprehensive hearing test
Air conduction masking
Bone conduction masking
Speech masking
Tympanometry/ARTs/Reflex Decay
DPOAEs
Hearing aid consultation
Hearing aid fitting
Hearing aid follow up
Real Ear Measurements |
| Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | • Evaluating audiological function using accepted protocols for testing patients of all ages, ranging from newborn to geriatric, including effective masking techniques.
• Interpreting results and counseling patients or caregivers about treatment options for hearing loss and other communication options
• Making appropriate recommendations, as well as medical referrals when necessary
• Documenting patient history, test results, and recommendations for follow up
• Making appropriate recommendations of hearing aids and assistive listening devices, when warranted
• Fitting hearing aids (all major manufacturers) and making programming adjustments as needed, including verification
• Performing and interpreting electro-physiologic and special tests of the peripheral and central auditory system, including Auditory Brainstem Response (ABR) testing and assessment for Central Auditory Processing Disorder (CAPD)
• Hearing aid maintenance and repair, ear mold impressions, and ceriman management
• Assisting with educational audiology services to the students at the Gateway School
• Providing diagnostic and hearing aid services for contracted residential nursing home facilities
• Maintaining clinic equipment and supplies, following all accepted universal precautions |
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 | | Everyday | Otoacoustic emissions | | Regularly | Industrial/hearing conservation | | Never | Vestibular assessments | | Never | Vestibular rehabilitation | | Everyday | Hearing aids dispensed | | Everyday | Hearing aid selection/fitting | | Never | Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) | | Regularly | Cochlear implant evaluations | | Regularly | Cochlear implant rehabilitation | | Never | Tinnitus assessments | | Never | Tinnitus rehabilitation | | Rarely | Cerumen management | |
| Research opportunities? | No
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: | n/a |
| Application Deadline: | 9/18/2024 |
| Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation
Resume
Phone interview
Letter of request/intent
Other
Must pass a background check/drug screen and Tuberculosis test. |
| Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: | Please forward letter of interest, resume or CV, and 3 letters of recommendation to
Dr. Rachael Purcel: rpurcel@gatewaymaryland.org
and
Dr. Elena Scarano: escarano@gatewaymaryland.org |
Contact Person:
(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Elena Scarano and Rachael Purcel - escarano@gatewaymaryland.org |
| Are all externs supervised? | Yes
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