| Primary Practice Setting: | Private practice |
Number of Audiologists at the site:
| 0 FTE Masters Degree 6 FTE Au.D. 0 FTE Ph.D. 0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD) 0 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants) 5 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? | No |
| Vacation Days: | 7 |
| Continuing education opportunities? | Yes Yes |
| Start Date: | May/June 2025 |
| Expected hours/days a week: | Monday - Friday |
| Travel to satellite centers required? | Yes Our main location will be the Rensselaer office with a few days in our Hudson and Saratoga location. |
| 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: | - Good interpersonal skills - Good report writing skills - Basic audiometric testing - Otoscopy - Basic patient interviewing - Basic Hearing aid experience |
| Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | - Conducting comprehensive audiological evaluations including pure tone audiometry, speech audiometry, tympanometry, OAE - Interpreting audiometric results and provide an accurate diagnoses - Developing personalized treatment plans - Complete Tinnitus evaluations and create individualized management plans - Fitting and dispensing hearing aids from a variety of manufactures using real-ear measurements/Verefit - Hearing aid repairs - Dispensing/fitting hearing aid accessories/assistive listening devices - Performing supervised Cerumen Management (instrumentation, irrigation, suction) |
Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:
| | Regularly | Hearing Screenings | | Never | Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler | | Rarely | Pediatric evaluations: school-age | | Everyday | Adult hearing evaluations | | Regularly | Tympanometry | | Regularly | Acoustic Reflexes | | Never | Auditory processing evaluations | | Regularly | Hearing Screenings | | Never | Evoked potential assessments | | Never | Intra-operative monitoring cases | | Regularly | Otoacoustic emissions | | Regularly | Industrial/hearing conservation | | Never | Vestibular assessments | | Never | Vestibular rehabilitation | | Everyday | Hearing aids dispensed | | Everyday | Hearing aid selection/fitting | | Regularly | Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) | | Rarely | Cochlear implant evaluations | | Rarely | Cochlear implant rehabilitation | | Regularly | Tinnitus assessments | | Regularly | Tinnitus rehabilitation | | Regularly | Cerumen management | |
| Research opportunities? | No No |
| Consortium or collaborative arrangements with other sites? | No |
| 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: | whatever is needed. |
| Application Deadline: | May 1st,2026 |
| Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation Resume Phone interview |
| Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: | Email your resume and two letters of recommendation to Dr. Lyndsay Cunningham at Lyndsay@audiologicsolutions.org |
Contact Person: (preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Lyndsay Cunningham, Au.D./ Stefan Fosco, Au.D. - Stefan@audiologicsolutions.org |
| Are all externs supervised? | Yes |