Externship with

The University of the Pacific is California's oldest chartered university, established in 1851. In the decades since, we have earned a reputation as an innovative leader in higher education.

Our Hearing and Balance Center in Stockton exemplifies these values, offering a wide range of hearing care services to residents of Stockton and the surrounding communities.

These include complete hearing evaluations, fitting and programming of hearing devices, cochlear implant evaluation and programming and tinnitus evaluation.
Externship Information:

Primary Practice Setting:
University medical center
Number of Audiologists at the site:
0 FTE Masters Degree
2 FTE Au.
D.
0 FTE Ph.
D.
1 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD)
1 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
1 4th year Externships Financial arrangements: Benefits
None
Will interview travel be compensated? No

Vacation Days: 5 days + Holidays
Continuing education opportunities? Yes
One local and one national convention registration fee/traveling will be covered. The week between Christmas and New Years will also be vacation time as well.

Start Date:
June/July 2025
Expected hours/days a week: 40/week
Travel to satellite centers required? No
Local students preferred: Yes
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: Extern must be able to perform diagnostic evaluations on a culturally diverse population. Extern must have a fundamental understanding of patient care and a true desire to serve all of those that require our services.

• Taking a case history
• Behavioral audiometry (air, bone, speech, and an understanding of masking)
• Basic knowledge and ability for taking earmold impressions
• Performing tympanometry, acoustic reflexes, and otoacoustic emissions testing
• Putting together the audiometric profile and determining need for referral
• Basic hearing aid skills, including real-ear measurement
• Basic report writing Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: Our clinic hearing assessment protocol follows guidelines pertaining to the audiologic management of adult hearing impairment created by American Academy of Audiology (AAA). These include comprehensive case history, otoscopic inspection and cerumen management, measuring MCLs and LDLs, performing pure tone, speech, and immittance audiometry, counseling results to patient and their family members, determining need for physician referral, recommending appropriate treatment as well as assessing hearing aid candidacy . Our hearing aid evaluation and dispensing protocols include assessing patient communication needs, motivation and expectation through different questionnaires (e.g., COSI, APHAB), conducting speech-in-noise testing (Quick-SIN), using probe microphone measures to verify a prescriptive fitting target, and conducting aided sound field testing.

The extern student also has the opportunity to gain additional experience with pediatric diagnostic evaluation and educational audiology as we are contracted with two public schools in the community.

Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:

Regularly Hearing Screenings Rarely Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler Rarely Pediatric evaluations: school-age Everyday Adult hearing evaluations Regularly Tympanometry Regularly Acoustic Reflexes Rarely Auditory processing evaluations Regularly Hearing Screenings Never Evoked potential assessments Never Intra-operative monitoring cases Regularly Otoacoustic emissions Never Industrial/hearing conservation Never Vestibular assessments Never Vestibular rehabilitation Everyday Hearing aids dispensed Everyday Hearing aid selection/fitting Everyday Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) Rarely Cochlear implant evaluations Rarely Cochlear implant rehabilitation Rarely Tinnitus assessments Rarely Tinnitus rehabilitation Everyday Cerumen management Research opportunities? Yes
There may be research opportunities available in coordination with the UOP San Francisco location. Consortium or collaborative arrangements with other sites? Yes

The extern student also has the opportunity to gain additional experience with pediatric ABRs, diagnostic evaluation and educational audiology at Children's Choice for Hearing and Talking (CCHAT) center in Rancho Cordova once every other week and at Stockton and Lodi Unified Schools.

How frequently will the externship site communicate with the university during the externship? Monthly Communication or other support do expected or required from the university during the externship:
The student is expected to lead a seminar for prospective or existing hearing aid users, participate in school hearing screenings, offer services at a retirement community monthly, perform educational audiology services for a contracted school system, and take on other tasks and responsibilities as they come up

Application Deadline:

9/18/2024

Application Requirements:
Letters of Recommendation
Resume
Phone interview
Letter of request/intent
2 letters of recommendation; virtual interview rather than a phone interview Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: Send application materials to

Contact Person:
(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) Gail Amornpongchai (Au.
D.), Munirah Awad (Au.
D Are all externs supervised? Yes

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