| Primary Practice Setting: | ENT group practice
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Number of Audiologists at the site:
| 1 FTE Masters Degree
3 FTE Au.D.
0 FTE Ph.D.
0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD)
3 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants)
1 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: | Stipend
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| Will interview travel be compensated? | No
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| Vacation Days: | 12
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| Continuing education opportunities? | Yes
Yes - Onsite trainings provided by manufacturers |
| Start Date: | May/June 2025
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| Expected hours/days a week: | 40 hours
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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: | Seeking a 4th year student who is ready to apply the knowledge they have learned. Excellent customer service skills, interpersonal skills, diagnostic testing, general knowledge on recommendation for hearing aids, troubleshooting hearing aid complaints/issues, repair hearing aid(s), skilled in computer skills including skills with audiology diagnostic equipment and hearing aid software. |
| Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | Successfully administers diagnostic tests including VNG, VEMP, ABR, OAE, vHIT, Dix-Hallpike, Immitance Audiometry, ETD testing, acoustic reflex threshold, Cochlear Implant evaluations, and BAHA/Osia evaluations.
Successfully councils patients, makes recommendations, advances skills with hearing aid repair, troubleshooting, and fitting, increased comfort with various hearing aids, and manufacturers.
Learn/demonstrate all the items listed in audiology extern job description by the completion of the externship. |
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 | | Rarely | Acoustic Reflexes | | Never | Auditory processing evaluations | | Rarely | Hearing Screenings | | Regularly | Evoked potential assessments | | Never | Intra-operative monitoring cases | | Regularly | Otoacoustic emissions | | Regularly | Industrial/hearing conservation | | Regularly | Vestibular assessments | | Regularly | Vestibular rehabilitation | | Regularly | Hearing aids dispensed | | Regularly | Hearing aid selection/fitting | | Regularly | Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) | | Regularly | Cochlear implant evaluations | | Regularly | Cochlear implant rehabilitation | | Regularly | Tinnitus assessments | | Rarely | Tinnitus rehabilitation | | Regularly | Cerumen management | |
| Research opportunities? | No
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| Consortium or collaborative arrangements with other sites? | Yes
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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: | It is important that the University communicate prior to the start of the externship what specific requirements they have for the student so that we can plan accordingly. |
| Application Deadline: | 9/18/24 |
| 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: | Send application materials as a complete package and 3 letters of recommendation to careers@fuelmedical.com |
Contact Person:
(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Brooke Steckelberg - bsteckelberg@stcloudent.com |
| Are all externs supervised? | Yes
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