| Primary Practice Setting: | ENT group practice
Private practice
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Number of Audiologists at the site:
| 1 FTE Masters Degree
2 FTE Au.D.
0 FTE Ph.D.
0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD)
5 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants)
5 FTE Clerical Support Staff
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Number of Audiology Students each year:
| 0 1st year AuD Clinical Rotations
1 2nd year
1 3rd year
1 4th year Externships |
| Financial arrangements: | Salary
Benefits
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| Will interview travel be compensated? | No
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| Vacation Days: | 10
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| Continuing education opportunities? | Yes
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| Start Date: | June 2025
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| Expected hours/days a week: | 38-40
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| Travel to satellite centers required? | No
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| 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: | Be able to independently perform basic audiometric testing |
| Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | *Learn to fit, dispense and trouble shoot hearing aids,
*Collaboration with ENTs
*Improve skills by working with complex diagnostic cases
*Counseling patient and families |
Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:
| | Rarely | Hearing Screenings | | Regularly | Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler | | Regularly | Pediatric evaluations: school-age | | Everyday | Adult hearing evaluations | | Everyday | Tympanometry | | Regularly | Acoustic Reflexes | | Never | Auditory processing evaluations | | Rarely | Hearing Screenings | | Never | Evoked potential assessments | | Never | Intra-operative monitoring cases | | Regularly | Otoacoustic emissions | | Rarely | Industrial/hearing conservation | | Never | Vestibular assessments | | Never | Vestibular rehabilitation | | Everyday | Hearing aids dispensed | | Everyday | Hearing aid selection/fitting | | Everyday | Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) | | Never | Cochlear implant evaluations | | Never | Cochlear implant rehabilitation | | Regularly | Tinnitus assessments | | Everyday | Tinnitus rehabilitation | | Regularly | Cerumen management | |
| Research opportunities? | No
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| 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: | I will reach out to University if I have concerns. |
| Application Deadline: | October 1, 2025 |
| Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation
Resume
Phone interview
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| Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: | Please submit requested documents to Dr. Chanda Abbott and Dr. Mia Malkin chandaabbott@bayareaaudiology.com, miamalkin@bayareaaudiology.com
or 281-332-4575 |
Contact Person:
(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Dr. Chanda Abbott, Dr. Tess Sayles - chandaabbott@bayareaaudiology.com |
| Are all externs supervised? | Yes
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