| Primary Practice Setting: | Private practice |
Number of Audiologists at the site:
| 0 FTE Masters Degree 2 FTE Au.D. 0 FTE Ph.D. 0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD) 1 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 0 3rd year 1 4th year Externships |
| Financial arrangements: | Stipend |
| Will interview travel be compensated? | No |
| Vacation Days: | 10 |
| Continuing education opportunities? | Yes N/A |
| Start Date: | 6/2/2026 |
| Expected hours/days a week: | 40 |
| 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 techniques (otoscopy, OAEs, immittance, audiometry) -Accurate report writing and charting -Basic hearing aid cleaning and basic hearing aid repairs. |
| Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | -Further improve adult and pediatric diagnostic techniques -patient counseling, -tinnitus management -private practice management intro |
Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:
| | Regularly | Hearing Screenings | | Regularly | Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler | | Regularly | 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 | | Rarely | Industrial/hearing conservation | | Never | Vestibular assessments | | Never | Vestibular rehabilitation | | Regularly | Hearing aids dispensed | | Regularly | Hearing aid selection/fitting | | Regularly | Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) | | Never | Cochlear implant evaluations | | Never | Cochlear implant rehabilitation | | Rarely | Tinnitus assessments | | Rarely | Tinnitus rehabilitation | | Regularly | Cerumen management | |
| Research opportunities? | 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: | Deadlines for evaluations in advance, any program-requirements of the externship placement/supervisors |
| Application Deadline: | 12/15/2025 |
| Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation Resume Transcript |
| Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: | Submit required documents to brooke@hearinghealthcenter.org |
Contact Person: (preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Brooke Tudor, Au.D. - brooke@hearinghealthcenter.org |
| Are all externs supervised? | Yes |