AuD Externship

Aurora Health Care is seeking applicants for an audiology externship in the Greater Milwaukee area for the term. This is a 12-month, 4-5 day (40 hour) per week position beginning in June 2025. Aurora Health Care is a not-for-profit health system. Our mission is to serve the health needs of individuals, families, and communities. Our purpose is to help people live well.

Externs will gain clinical experience in a variety of audiological services at multiple sites. This includes behavioral and electrophysiological diagnostic hearing evaluations of infants, children, and adults; pediatric and adult hearing aid services; pediatric and adult cochlear implant and osseointegrated implant evaluations with post-operative management; and comprehensive vestibular evaluations (VNG, Rotary Chair, vHIT, VEMP, CDP).

Externs will work in collaboration with multi-disciplinary partners including ENT and neurotology physicians, physician assistants, physical therapists, and speech therapists. Applicants will demonstrate excellent interpersonal skills, be friendly and engaging, and have a strong desire to learn and grow.

Required application materials:

1. Letter of interest
2. Curriculum vitae
3. Three letters of reference
4. Unofficial graduate transcript

Please submit applications to . Submit application materials in one email if possible.

Externship Information: Primary Practice Setting: Multi-specialty medical center
Number of Audiologists at the site:
0 FTE Masters Degree
7 FTE Au.D.
0 FTE Ph.D.
0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD)
1 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants)
3 FTE Clerical Support Staff
Number of Audiology Students each year:
0 1st year AuD Clinical Rotations
0 2nd year
1 3rd year
1 4th year Externships Financial arrangements: None
Will interview travel be compensated? No
Vacation Days: 10
Continuing education opportunities? Yes
Manufacturer trainings, local conferences Start Date: early June 2025
Expected hours/days a week: 40
Travel to satellite centers required? Yes
10 miles 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:
•Basic evaluation for adults and adolescents

•Minimal experience in behavioral evaluations of infants and
young children

•Otoscopy, tympanometry, and acoustic reflex measurement

•Basic understanding of hearing aids Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship:
•Hearing aids (selection, fitting, and verification)

•Pediatric hearing evaluations

•Vestibular evaluations

•Cochlear implant evaluation, mapping, and post-activation
evaluations

•Counseling patients, caregivers, and families Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:
Never 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 Never Hearing Screenings Regularly 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 Never Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) Regularly Cochlear implant evaluations Regularly Cochlear implant rehabilitation Never Tinnitus assessments Never 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 Communication or other support do expected or required from the university during the externship: Evaluation guidelines and timeline Application Deadline: September 18, Application Requirements: Letters of Recommendation
Resume
Transcript
Letter of request/intent
Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: Submit application materials via email as a single PDF file. Letter of recommendation can be emailed separately. Contact Person:
(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) Rebecca Landgraf, AuD - Are all externs supervised? Yes

Required application materials:

1. Letter of interest
2. Curriculum vitae
3. Three letters of reference
4. Unofficial graduate transcript

Please submit applications to . Submit application materials in one email if possible.

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