Au.D. Externship
The University of Missouri Department of Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery is pleased to offer one 12-month, full-time, 4th year audiology externship opportunity for 2024-2025. The ideal candidate will be a strong team player, flexible, accountable, and passionate about providing patient-centered care. The chosen applicant will have completed their 3rd year or the equivalent from an accredited audiology program, show mastery of clinical diagnostics, and be familiar with and interested in amplification, cochlear implants, and vestibular diagnostics.
A Team Approach in a Great Midwestern City:
We are a team of 13 audiologists supporting a multi-disciplinary team of neurotology, a neurotology fellow, otolaryngologists, resident physicians, and nurse practitioners. We work closely with speech language pathology, physical therapy, Columbia Public Schools audiology and Deaf and Hard of Hearing Preschool, VA Community Care, and other professionals to provide best-practice based, patient-centered care. Most of our audiologists carry their ASHA certificate of clinical competence in audiology (CCC-A).
University of Missouri audiologists practice in a variety of settings, all of them centered around Columbia, MO, also known as COMO: “What You Unexpect”. COMO is a mid-size city with a friendly, small-town vibe which believes in outdoor spaces and activities, boasts a thriving downtown, a dedicated arts and culture scene, and serves as home to the University of Missouri, Missouri’s flagship state university. We’re also within driving distance of both Kansas City and St. Louis.
To learn more about Columbia: https://www.visitcolumbiamo.com/
We have 4 locations, 3 in Columbia:
- MU ENT, Hearing and Balance Center
- MU Pediatrics at MU Hospital
- Columbia ENT
1 in Jefferson City:
- Capitol Region Medical Center
Clinical Experience:
This externship position will be a well-rounded ENT experience with patients of all ages, including:
- diagnostic audiology
- evoked potentials (OAE, c and oVEMPs, and sedated and sleep deprived ABRs)
- comprehensive vestibular evaluations (VNG, Rotary Chair, Posturography)
- cochlear implant candidacy, assessment, programming, and follow-up for adults with some exposure to pediatric patients
- amplification evaluation, fitting, and follow-up (traditional and osseointegrated devices, ALDs, FM)
- newborn hearing screening follow ups
Benefits:
A stipend will be available for the 2024-2025 externship. The extern will have 9 paid holidays as well as 10 additional days of paid time off (PTO).
How to Apply:
Applicants should send letter of intent, transcript, and resumé in one email to Jaime Sutton, Au.D., Student Coordinator: suttonjm@umsystem.edu. Please include the contact information for the Externship Coordinator at your audiology program in your application materials if available or known.
Three letters of reference (with at least one preferably from a non-University practicum supervisor) may be included in this email or emailed separately to the above email.
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Primary Practice Setting: | ENT group practice Hospital University medical center | Number of Audiologists at the site:
| 0 FTE Masters Degree 12 FTE Au.D. 0 FTE Ph.D. 0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD) 2 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants) 1 FTE Clerical Support Staff | 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 | Will interview travel be compensated? | No | Vacation Days: | 10 | Continuing education opportunities? | Yes CI, hearing aid, and osseointegrated manufacturer trainings, travel to other trainings as opportunities arise | Start Date: | June 1st, 2024 | Expected hours/days a week: | 5 days a week | Travel to satellite centers required? | No | Local students preferred: | No | 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: | Diagnostic audiology to include history taking, otoscopy, air, bone, speech, appropriate masking, tympanometry, acoustic reflexes, DPOAEs. | Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | •diagnostic audiology •evoked potentials (OAE, c and oVEMPs, and sedated and sleep deprived ABRs) •comprehensive vestibular evaluations (VNG, Rotary Chair, Posturography) •cochlear implant candidacy, assessment, programming, and follow-up for adults with some exposure to pediatric patients •amplification evaluation, fitting, and follow-up (traditional and osseointegrated devices, ALDs, FM) •newborn hearing screening follow ups | Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:
| Regularly | Hearing Screenings | Regularly | Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler | Regularly | Pediatric evaluations: school-age | Regularly | Adult hearing evaluations | Everyday | Tympanometry | Regularly | Acoustic Reflexes | Rarely | Auditory processing evaluations | Regularly | Hearing Screenings | Regularly | Evoked potential assessments | Never | Intra-operative monitoring cases | Regularly | Otoacoustic emissions | Rarely | Industrial/hearing conservation | Regularly | Vestibular assessments | Rarely | Vestibular rehabilitation | Everyday | Hearing aids dispensed | Everyday | Hearing aid selection/fitting | Rarely | Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) | Regularly | Cochlear implant evaluations | Rarely | Cochlear implant rehabilitation | Never | Tinnitus assessments | Never | Tinnitus rehabilitation | Never | Cerumen management | | Research opportunities? | Yes We participate in some research studies and have one current IRB in vestibular research. | Consortium or collaborative arrangements with other sites? | No | How frequently will the externship site communicate with the university during the externship? | As Needed
| Communication or other support do expected or required from the university during the externship: | As often as the university would prefer to communicate is welcome. | Application Deadline: | 9/22/2023 | Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation Resume Transcript Phone interview Letter of request/intent Other We will be conducting interviews exclusively by Zoom. | Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: | Applicants should send letter of intent, transcript, and resumé in one email to Jaime Sutton, Au.D., Externship Coordinator: suttonjm@umsystem.edu. Please include the contact information for the Externship Coordinator at your audiology program in your application materials if available or known.
Three letters of reference (with at least one preferably from a non-University practicum supervisor) may be included in this email or emailed separately to the above email. | Contact Person: (preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Jaime Sutton, Au.D., Extern Coordinator - suttonjm@umsystem.edu | Are all externs supervised? | Yes | |