| Primary Practice Setting: | Hospital
University medical center
Multi-specialty medical center
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Number of Audiologists at the site:
| 0 FTE Masters Degree
30 FTE Au.D.
2 FTE Ph.D.
0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD)
2 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants)
8 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
2 4th year Externships |
| Financial arrangements: | Salary
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| Will interview travel be compensated? | No
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| Vacation Days: | 10 days
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| Continuing education opportunities? | Yes
Continuing education and community outreach opportunities available.
Research opportunities available. |
| Start Date: | June 2025
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| Expected hours/days a week: | 40 hours/week
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| Travel to satellite centers required? | Yes
10 to 20 miles |
| 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: | Pure tone air conduction and bone conduction threshold assessment with masking
Immittance with acoustic reflexes (ipsi and contra) and reflex decay
Distortion product otoacoustic emissions
Knowledge of hearing aid evaluation, assessment and fitting
Knowledge of Real Ear measurements
Knowledge of Cochlear Implant and BAI candidacy |
| Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | Universal Newborn Hearing Screening program and management
Intra-operative cochlear implant telemetry
Obtain a complete and comprehensive audiogram with tympanometry, acoustic reflexes, reflex decay and otoacoustic emissions for all age groups
Comfort in use of BOA, VRA, TROCA, conditioned play audiometry and team testing
Competency in implementation of ABR and ASSR under sedation and natural sleep
Competency in vestibular assessment including VNG, VHIT, ECOG, VEMP
Competency in hearing aid counseling, fitting, programming and follow up
Competency in cochlear implant |
Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:
| | Regularly | Hearing Screenings | | Everyday | Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler | | Everyday | Pediatric evaluations: school-age | | Everyday | Adult hearing evaluations | | Everyday | Tympanometry | | Everyday | Acoustic Reflexes | | Rarely | Auditory processing evaluations | | Regularly | Hearing Screenings | | Regularly | Evoked potential assessments | | Regularly | 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 | | Rarely | Tinnitus assessments | | Rarely | Tinnitus rehabilitation | | Never | Cerumen management | |
| Research opportunities? | Yes
Opportunities to participate in vestibular and cochlear implant research are available.
UHCMC has multiple ongoing research project opportunities |
| 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: | Performance assessment materials, frequency of completion based on University |
| Application Deadline: | September 18, 2024 |
| Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation
Resume
Transcript
Personal Review
Letter of request/intent
Other
In person interview preferred
Zoom interviews as needed |
| Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: | University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center will follow the ACEN timeline for application. Deadline for documentation submission is September 18, 2024. Required documentation includes:
Letter of interest
Three letters of recommendation
Curriculum vitae
Undergraduate and graduate transcripts are encourage (unofficial accepted)
All materials to be emailed to andrea.sterkel@uhhospitals.org |
Contact Person:
(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Andrea Sterkel, AuD/CCC-A - andrea.sterkel@uhhospitals.org |
| Are all externs supervised? | Yes
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