Primary Practice Setting: | Private practice |
Number of Audiologists at the site:
| 1 FTE Masters Degree 6 FTE Au.D. 0 FTE Ph.D. 0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD) 7 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants) 15 FTE Clerical Support Staff |
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 |
Will interview travel be compensated? | Yes |
Vacation Days: | 0 |
Continuing education opportunities? | Yes |
Start Date: | flexible |
Expected hours/days a week: | 40 hours, 4 days |
Travel to satellite centers required? | Yes 2 have 2 locations in Albuquerque, approximately 20 minutes apart |
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 testing on adults and some experience with children • Emerging hearing aid selection, fitting and real ear measurement experience |
Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | •Electrophysiologic testing (ABR/ASSR) •Cochlear implant evaluations and mapping •Bone anchored implant fitting •Cerumen removal •Lyric hearing aid fitting •Pediatric testing and hearing aid fitting •Vestibular evaluations including VEMPs and vHIT |
Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:
| Never | Hearing Screenings | Regularly | Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler | Regularly | Pediatric evaluations: school-age | Everyday | Adult hearing evaluations | Everyday | Tympanometry | Everyday | Acoustic Reflexes | Never | Auditory processing evaluations | Never | Hearing Screenings | Regularly | Evoked potential assessments | Never | Intra-operative monitoring cases | Regularly | Otoacoustic emissions | Never | 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 | Regularly | Cochlear implant rehabilitation | Rarely | Tinnitus assessments | Rarely | Tinnitus rehabilitation | Regularly | Cerumen management | |
Research opportunities? | No Not at this time but we have in the past |
Consortium or collaborative arrangements with other sites? | No |
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: | We will communicate as frequently as the university would like and on an as needed basis as well. |
Application Deadline: | 03/01/2024 |
Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation Resume Zoom interview |
Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: | contact the owner/audiologist directly |
Contact Person: (preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Carol Clifford - cclifford@abqhearing.com |
Are all externs supervised? | Yes |