Final Externship Year

Loyola Medicine is offering full-time 4th Year AuD Externship positions for the year (3 rd Year position for 3-year programs).

The Department of Audiology employs clinical audiologists at the Loyola University Medical Center and four satellites.

Audiology works closely with the Otolaryngology program, which has been nationally ranked for its high performance in achieving excellent results during challenging ENT cases.

Loyola's Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery residency is known as one of the best in the United States.

Together with Otology, Loyola Audiology offers a medical model of hearing management including cochlear implants for adults, cochlear implants for single-sided deafness and/or tinnitus, and osseointegrated implants.

Externs can expect a dynamic experience with adult patients for diagnostic audiologic and electrophysiologic procedures (diagnostic ABR, intraoperative monitoring of the auditory nerve for acoustic neuroma surgeries), VNG, implantable hearing devices, and hearing aids.

The rotations are primarily with adult patients; if a special interest in pediatrics is desired, it may be possible to be placed in the pediatric ENT clinics for diagnostic evaluations, as well as threshold ABRs in the operating room.

Applicants should be confident, motivated and display the time management and organizational skills that are necessary when working in a fast-paced environment with multiple preceptors.

Externship Information:

Primary Practice Setting:
University medical center
Number of Audiologists at the site:
1 FTE Masters Degree
9 FTE Au.
D.
0 FTE Ph.
D.
0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD)
0 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants)
0 FTE Clerical Support Staff
Number of Audiology Students each year:
0 1st year AuD Clinical Rotations
0 2nd year
0 3rd year
2 4th year Externships Financial arrangements: None
Other – Please Describe
No stipend is available. A garage parking fee of approximately $200 for the year is required. Will interview travel be compensated? No

Vacation Days: 14 is typical
Continuing education opportunities? Yes
Yes. Funding is not provided, but students are encouraged to attend state and national conventions, local manufacturer's workshops, etc.

Start Date:
Typically 5/25-4/26
Expected hours/days a week: 40 hrs/5 days
Travel to satellite centers required? Yes
Yes. Each satellite is approximately 20-30 minutes from the main campus and from each other. Current placement includes the main medical center campus and a rotation at the Oakbrook Terrace satellite.

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: Final year externs are expected to be independent in adult audiologic evaluation with masking mastered; these are considered entry-level skills and affirmation that these skills have been mastered should be included in the Letters of Recommendation. Externs should be proficient in basic hearing aid programming, troubleshooting, and real ear measures. We are looking for students who function well in a fast-paced environment with multiple clinical settings and preceptors, while displaying motivation, professionalism and critical thinking skills.

Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship:

A primary goal for the year is to have students gain independence in the total care of the patient, from case history, audiologic evaluation, tinnitus evaluation and management, evaluation for HA/CI/AOI, fitting of same, follow-up of same, counseling, report writing, coding and practice management.

Independence in threshold ABR, diagnostic ABR, and VNG administration and interpretation should be expected by year's end.

Students should be expected to convey their critical thinking skills to their preceptors by discussing their rationale for each individual patient's diagnosis and management plan.

Students should be comfortable and confident in explaining their working diagnosis and recommended management strategies to referring otologists and other ENTs on a daily basis.

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 Regularly Tympanometry Regularly Acoustic Reflexes Never Auditory processing evaluations Rarely Hearing Screenings Rarely Evoked potential assessments Rarely Intra-operative monitoring cases Regularly Otoacoustic emissions Never Industrial/hearing conservation Regularly Vestibular assessments Never 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 Never Cerumen management Research opportunities? Yes
Yes under certain conditions:
1. If student has an independent project and is strong enough to balance research with demands of clinic.
2. If opportunity provides itself to assist staff with their own ongoing research projects. Consortium or collaborative arrangements with other sites? No
How frequently will the externship site communicate with the university during the externship? As Needed Communication or other support do expected or required from the university during the externship: Initial schedule of timelines and ongoing email alerts of review deadlines. The University should fully cooperate in obtaining current affiliation agreements if not already on file.

Application Deadline:
August 23,2024

Application Requirements:
Other

ALL APPLICATION MATERIALS, WITH THE EXCEPTION OF THE OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPTS, ARE TO BE SUBMITTED TOGETHER IN ONE EMAIL PACKET.

1. Letter of request/intent
2. Letters of Recommendation
3. Resume
4. Transcripts-Undergraduate & Graduate*
*Minimum of 2 LOR, 3 preferred, with at least one from outside site.
**Unofficial transcripts allowed to be submitted in order to make the deadline, with official transcripts to follow. PREFER OFFICIAL TRANSCRIPTS TO COME DIRECTLY FROM YOUR SCHOOL ELECTRONICALLY.
If selected for follow-up, then a virtual interview or on-site interview will be required.

Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process:
Email all required materials by application deadline of August 23, 2024. Official undergraduate & graduate transcripts should be sent electronically directly from your school. If that service is not available from your school, have them send by snail mail to address below. Virtual and/or on-site interviews to be conducted with finalists.

PLEASE NOTE that candidates may be contacted for an interview upon receipt of the application, and not necessarily only after the deadline.

Submit electronically to Snail mail for official transcripts sent by your Institution:
Candace Blank, Audiologist Chief, Loyola University Medical Center, 2160 S. 1st Ave.

, Maywood IL 60153, Bld 150, Rm Contact Person:

(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) Candace Blank, AuD - Are all externs supervised? Yes

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