Audiology Externship Opportunity

The 4th year Audiology externship at North Oaks Medical Center offers a clinical year for students enrolled in an ASHA accredited Doctor of Audiology program to gain proficiency in performing diagnostic tests, treatments, and interpersonal skills under the supervision of a licensed Audiologist and ENT physician.

• Perform activities that identify, assess, diagnose, manage, and interpret test results related to disorders of hearing, balance, and other neural systems.
• Conduct and interpret behavioral, electroacoustic, or electrophysiologic methods used to assess hearing, balance, and neural system function.
• Provide consultation to educators as members of an interdisciplinary team about communication management, educational implications of hearing loss, educational programming, classroom acoustics, and large-area amplification systems for children with hearing loss.
• Provide prevention of hearing loss and conservation of hearing function by designing, implementing, and coordinating occupational, school, and community hearing conservation and identification programs.
• Provide screening of speech-language, use of sign language (e.g., American Sign Language and cued speech), and other factors affecting communication function for the purposes of an audiologic evaluation and/or initial identification of individuals with other communication disorders.
• Participate in the development of professional and technical standards.
• Prepare written documentation as required by the profession and the department, such as evaluation results, treatment plans, progress reports, and other such reports.

• Current enrollment in an ASHA accredited Doctor of Audiology program.
• Completion with pass of the Praxis Examination in Audiology preferred.