| 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)
2 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants)
10 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: | 10 vac + 5 prof days
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| Continuing education opportunities? | Yes
TBD |
| Start Date: | July 2025 (flexible)
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| Expected hours/days a week: | 40 hrs/wk
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| Travel to satellite centers required? | Yes
Gaylord- once/week (about 30 minutes), Alpena (2 hours- occasional). Both locations extern can ride with other staff members. |
| 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: | Case history, behavioral audiometry on adults, earmold impressions, tympanograms, acoustic reflexes, otoacoustic emissions, basic hearing aid skills, basic report writing skills, basic counseling technique, understanding of electrophysiology |
| Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | Behavioral testing in children and toddlers, patient counseling, real ear measurements, cochlear implant evaluations, mapping, and activations, hearing aid evaluations, hearing aid fittings, hearing aid follow up appointments, newborn hearing screenings, ABR under sedations |
Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:
| | Rarely | Hearing Screenings | | Regularly | Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler | | Regularly | Pediatric evaluations: school-age | | Everyday | Adult hearing evaluations | | Everyday | Tympanometry | | Regularly | Acoustic Reflexes | | Never | Auditory processing evaluations | | Rarely | Hearing Screenings | | Regularly | Evoked potential assessments | | Never | Intra-operative monitoring cases | | Regularly | Otoacoustic emissions | | Rarely | 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 | | Regularly | Cerumen management | |
| Research opportunities? | No
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| 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: | Support and resources as needed |
| Application Deadline: | Until filled |
| Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation
Resume
Phone interview
Letter of request/intent
Other
Zoom interview in lieu of phone interview. |
| 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) | Lindsay Reckinger, Au.D. - lreckinger@greatlakesent.com |
| Are all externs supervised? | Yes
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