| Primary Practice Setting: | Private practice
University medical center
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Number of Audiologists at the site:
| 0 FTE Masters Degree
2 FTE Au.D.
0 FTE Ph.D.
1 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD)
1 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: | Living expenses
Benefits
None
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| Will interview travel be compensated? | No
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| Vacation Days: | 5 days + Holidays
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| Continuing education opportunities? | Yes
One local and one national convention registration fee/traveling will be covered. The week between Christmas and New Years will also be vacation time as well. |
| Start Date: | June/July 2025
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| Expected hours/days a week: | 40/week
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| Travel to satellite centers required? | No
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| Local students preferred: | Yes
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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: | Extern must be able to perform diagnostic evaluations on a culturally diverse population. Extern must have a fundamental understanding of patient care and a true desire to serve all of those that require our services.
•Taking a case history
•Behavioral audiometry (air, bone, speech, and an understanding of masking)
•Basic knowledge and ability for taking earmold impressions
•Performing tympanometry, acoustic reflexes, and otoacoustic emissions testing
•Putting together the audiometric profile and determining need for referral
•Basic hearing aid skills, including real-ear measurement
•Basic report writing |
| Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | Our clinic hearing assessment protocol follows guidelines pertaining to the audiologic management of adult hearing impairment created by American Academy of Audiology (AAA). These include comprehensive case history, otoscopic inspection and cerumen management, measuring MCLs and LDLs, performing pure tone, speech, and immittance audiometry, counseling results to patient and their family members, determining need for physician referral, recommending appropriate treatment as well as assessing hearing aid candidacy . Our hearing aid evaluation and dispensing protocols include assessing patient communication needs, motivation and expectation through different questionnaires (e.g., COSI, APHAB), conducting speech-in-noise testing (Quick-SIN), using probe microphone measures to verify a prescriptive fitting target, and conducting aided sound field testing.
The extern student also has the opportunity to gain additional experience with pediatric diagnostic evaluation and educational audiology as we are contracted with two public schools in the community. |
Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:
| | Regularly | Hearing Screenings | | Rarely | Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler | | Rarely | Pediatric evaluations: school-age | | Everyday | Adult hearing evaluations | | Regularly | Tympanometry | | Regularly | Acoustic Reflexes | | Rarely | Auditory processing evaluations | | Regularly | Hearing Screenings | | Never | Evoked potential assessments | | Never | Intra-operative monitoring cases | | Regularly | Otoacoustic emissions | | Never | Industrial/hearing conservation | | Never | Vestibular assessments | | Never | Vestibular rehabilitation | | Everyday | Hearing aids dispensed | | Everyday | Hearing aid selection/fitting | | Everyday | Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) | | Rarely | Cochlear implant evaluations | | Rarely | Cochlear implant rehabilitation | | Rarely | Tinnitus assessments | | Rarely | Tinnitus rehabilitation | | Everyday | Cerumen management | |
| Research opportunities? | Yes
There may be research opportunities available in coordination with the UOP San Francisco location. |
| Consortium or collaborative arrangements with other sites? | Yes
The extern student also has the opportunity to gain additional experience with pediatric ABRs, diagnostic evaluation and educational audiology at Children's Choice for Hearing and Talking (CCHAT) center in Rancho Cordova once every other week and at Stockton and Lodi Unified Schools. |
| How frequently will the externship site communicate with the university during the externship? | Monthly
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| Communication or other support do expected or required from the university during the externship: | The student is expected to lead a seminar for prospective or existing hearing aid users, participate in school hearing screenings, offer services at a retirement community monthly, perform educational audiology services for a contracted school system, and take on other tasks and responsibilities as they come up. |
| Application Deadline: | until filled |
| Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation
Resume
Phone interview
Letter of request/intent
2 letters of recommendation; virtual interview rather than a phone interview |
| Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: | Send application materials to gamornpongchai@pacific.edu |
Contact Person:
(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Gail Amornpongchai (Au.D.), Munirah Awad (Au.D.) - gamornpongchai@pacific.edu |
| Are all externs supervised? | Yes
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