PCHC is a large community nonprofit health clinic including primary care, specialty care, pediatrics, mental health, and dental care. Our mission is to provide these services to any person, regardless of socioeconomic status, insurance status, or ability to pay. The audiology clinic is known as the Warren Center. Our population includes infants, children, and adults. We work with hearing aids, cochlear implants, and bone conduction devices. Diagnostics include standard hearing testing, pediatric testing, cochlear implant evaluations, and ABR evaluations (unsedated). Outside of the clinic, Maine is a beautiful place. Most of us here in the clinic came for "a short time" and ended up staying. In a short drive you can find yourself enjoying the mountains, oceanside cliffs, lobster and icecream in Bar Harbor, skiing, fall foliage, and just meeting genuinely nice people.

• interest in adult and pediatric populations
• interest in working with hearing aids
• interest in cochlear implants
• interest in bone conduction solutions

Externship Information:

Primary Practice Setting:

Community medical center Number of Audiologists at the site: 0 FTE Masters Degree 5 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 0 3rd year 1 4th year Externships Financial arrangements: Salary Will interview travel be compensated?

No Vacation Days:

yes Continuing education opportunities?

Yes Yes Start Date:

negotiable Expected hours/days a week: 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:

• ability to complete a standard adult hearing evaluation with a fair amount of independence-ability to participate in pediatric testing as a test assist with emerging ability to test-observation experience with ABR and cochlear implant evaluations-experience with hearing aids, particularly with verification experience Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship:•gain independence with pediatric and adult testing-gain independence with hearing aid selection, fitting, follow up, and troubleshooting-gain significant experience with cochlear implant evaluations, mappings, and troubleshooting-gain experience with ABR and Baha Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern: Everyday Hearing Screenings Everyday Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler Everyday Pediatric evaluations: school-age Everyday Adult hearing evaluations Everyday Tympanometry Regularly Acoustic Reflexes Never Auditory processing evaluations Everyday Hearing Screenings Regularly Evoked potential assessments Never Intra-operative monitoring cases Everyday Otoacoustic emissions Rarely Industrial/hearing conservation Never 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 Rarely Tinnitus assessments Never Tinnitus rehabilitation Regularly Cerumen management Research opportunities?

No No Consortium or collaborative arrangements with other sites? No We are able to arrange shadowing opportunities with other clinics and agencies to help provide a well rounded experience. 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: available as needed

Application Deadline:

open until filled

Application Requirements:

Letters of Recommendation Resume Transcript Letter of request/intent unofficial transcript will be sufficient Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: student to submit application materials either via email or mail

Contact Person:

(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) Nicole Duncan

• nduncan@pchc.com Are all externs supervised? Yes
• interest in adult and pediatric populations
• interest in working with hearing aids
• interest in cochlear implants
• interest in bone conduction solutions