Primary Practice Setting: | ENT group practice Private practice |
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 |
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 |
Will interview travel be compensated? | No |
Vacation Days: | 10 |
Continuing education opportunities? | Yes |
Start Date: | June 2025 |
Expected hours/days a week: | 38-40 |
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: | 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 |
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: | I will reach out to University if I have concerns. |
Application Deadline: | October 1, 2025 |
Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation Resume Phone interview |
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 |