Primary Practice Setting: | University medical center |
Number of Audiologists at the site:
| 0 FTE Masters Degree 11 FTE Au.D. 0 FTE Ph.D. 0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD) 0 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 3 4th year Externships |
Financial arrangements: | Stipend |
Will interview travel be compensated? | No |
Vacation Days: | 10 |
Continuing education opportunities? | Yes Externs are encouraged to attend local conferences and surgical grand rounds through Yale University School of Medicine, Yale New Haven Hospital, and the greater audiology community. |
Start Date: | June 1, 2026 |
Expected hours/days a week: | 40 |
Travel to satellite centers required? | Yes Audiology externs will be splitting their clinical experience between our New Haven and Milford locations. There will be opportunities for externs to provide diagnostic services with supervising audiologists in our Old Saybrook, Cornell-Scott Hill Health Center, and Greenwich locations as desired. |
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: | - Take a complete case history - Strong report-writing skills - Competently perform all audiologic evaluations with masking when applicable - Critically think about each case presented - Solid foundation in hearing aids, cochlear implants, and osseointegrated devices - Good counseling skills for patients of all ages & backgrounds - Working knowledge of vestibular and neurodiagnostic evaluations |
Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | - Proficiency in report writing - Independently perform all diagnostic evaluations - Critically thinking about each case presented - Proficiency in counseling, selection, and fitting of hearing aids, cochlear implants and bone anchored devices - Independently perform a full vestibular evaluation - Observations and participation in sedated otology coordinated cases |
Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:
| Regularly | Hearing Screenings | Never | Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler | Never | Pediatric evaluations: school-age | Everyday | Adult hearing evaluations | Everyday | Tympanometry | Regularly | Acoustic Reflexes | Never | Auditory processing evaluations | Regularly | Hearing Screenings | Regularly | Evoked potential assessments | Never | Intra-operative monitoring cases | Regularly | Otoacoustic emissions | Regularly | 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 | Regularly | Tinnitus assessments | Regularly | Tinnitus rehabilitation | Rarely | Cerumen management | |
Research opportunities? | Yes While clinical audiologists at Yale Hearing and Balance Center do not have dedicated time to complete research projects, there are typically one to two small-scale studies being completed. Audiology externs are welcome to participate. Additionally, audiology externs are encouraged to complete any independent research projects they're interested in, with the acknowledgment that clinical duties account for over 90% of time spent in the clinic. |
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: | An affiliation agreement must be signed between the universities before an offer letter can be generated. Required student evaluation paperwork should be submitted prior to externship start date. |
Application Deadline: | August 22, 2025(5pm) |
Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation Resume Transcript Phone interview Letter of request/intent Other All application requirements (including cover letter, resume, and transcripts) should be submitted as one complete packet and emailed to yalehearing@yale.edu or mailed to our clinic via certified mail. We understand that letters of recommendation may be sent separately from the application packet.
Two letters of recommendation can be emailed directly from references to yalehearing@yale.edu
If a completed packet is mailed, it should be sent to:
Yale Hearing and Balance Center Attention: Jennifer Hopper, AuD 800 Howard Avenue 4th Floor Room 468 New Haven, CT 06519
All selected applicants must complete one or more phone and/or video interviews with Yale Hearing and Balance Center. |
Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: | Externship Application Timeline: August 22, 2025: Deadline for submitting a completed application September 2nd, 3rd, 4th, and 9th: First round virtual interviews with times offered between 11 am-2 pm EST September 17th, 2025: Second round virtual interviews with times offered between 8 am-5 pm EST September 22nd 5pm EST: Deadline for accepting externship offers |
Contact Person: (preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Jennifer Hopper, AuD - yalehearing@yale.edu |
Are all externs supervised? | Yes |