Beautiful Wyoming
4th-Year Externship
Innovative audiology practice seeks AuD externs interested in using their training to the fullest through hearing and tinnitus diagnostics and rehab. Come join this amazing, growing practice in a unique Wyoming landscape where nature is as uncrowded as our highways.
If you have a passion for treating the whole patient—not just their hearing loss—Brant Audiology & Tinnitus is the practice for you.
Extern Experiences:
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Infant through geriatric patients
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Diagnostic testing
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Hearing aid evaluations, sales & management
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Cochlear implant evaluation & management
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Osseointegrated implant management
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Tinnitus evaluations, treatments & management
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Educational Audiology
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Close relationship with ENT providers
Position Benefits:
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Stipend with generous bonus structure
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Stipend $20,000 annually
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Bonus: Externs average $40,000 annually
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Professional Liability Insurance
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7 days personal PTO
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Paid continuing education/training
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10 paid holidays
Who we are:
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Brant Audiology & Tinnitus is the largest comprehensive private audiology practice in Wyoming. Despite our size, we pride ourselves in forming genuine, meaningful connections with each and every patient.
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We have multiple locations and four outgoing, charismatic, Doctors of Audiology who are all interested in working with externs to help them become world-class audiologists.
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We thrive on giving back to our community. Our philanthropic non-profit, Hearing the Call – Wyoming’s, mission is to provide better hearing to individuals in Wyoming who cannot afford it on their own. To help maintain dignity, those receiving help are given opportunities to give back to the community through service to others. Hearing the Call also supports better hearing globally.
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We set the bar for hearing health care. Our audiologists lead with care and science for every ear at every age; this means we often work collaboratively with other care providers to ensure comprehensive, holistic hearing health care. Evidence-based practice is at the center of every decision we make and treatment we choose.
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We are the only cochlear implant audiology practice in the State of Wyoming, working with all three CI manufacturers.
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We specialize in tinnitus evaluation and management where an extensive tinnitus test battery and solution-driven, holistic treatment management options are embraced.
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We are in the process of implementing an auditory processing testing and treatment program to being in 2024.
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Learn more about us here.
Requirements:
The ideal candidate is enthusiastic, outgoing, team oriented, wants to fully embrace diagnostics, hearing aid fittings and has an interest in understanding entrepreneurship who genuinely cares about learning how a business operates. Externs should be ready to perform medically relevant diagnostics, including audiometry, immittance, DPOAEs as well as treatment focused evaluations that include speech-in-noise testing such as the ACT, ANL & QuickSIN, and loudness discomfort levels. Candidates must be passionate about working with hearing aid technology and desire to improve lives with hearing solutions. Externs will be expected to improve proficiency with evidence-based hearing aid dispensing and ongoing hearing aid management with electroacoustic analysis and real ear measurements.
Skills expected to have mastered before arrival:
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Pure tone air and bone conduction audiometry
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Immittance testing - tympanometry, acoustic reflexes, decay
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Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions - diagnostic and screening protocols
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Hearing Aid Electroacoustic Analysis
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Real Ear Measurements
Skills the student can expect to learn/demonstrate during the externship:
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Hearing Aid Sales and Counseling
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Tinnitus Diagnostics, Management, and Counseling
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Cochlear Implant Evaluation, Surgical Referral, and Post-implant Mapping
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Develop Small Business Skills - Marketing, Social Media, and Business Management
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Develop Aural Rehabilitation Skills
4th-year externs would be based in our Cheyenne clinic. They would travel to all our different clinics and have the opportunity to work with all our audiologists. If the 4th-year extern is a good match for the practice a full time position may be offered, however, it is not mandatory that externs be interested in that position in order to qualify and be selected for the 4th-year experience.
TO APPLY: Email your resume to Extern@BrantAudiology.com
APPLICATION DEADLINE: August 15, 2024
About the Cheyenne Community:
Cheyenne has much to offer independent singles, and families. The public school system in Cheyenne is well above average drawing young families who want quality education. There are a variety of attractions and entertainment opportunities throughout the year in the greater Cheyenne area. Home to 15 local museums, movie theaters, community theaters, a civic center, outdoor concerts and many other amenities, there is always something to do in Cheyenne. The artist community is also very strong and provides monthly artwork throughout the community, along with many other public events, making it a fun place to live. Additionally, Cheyenne is home to Cheyenne Frontier Days, the world’s largest outdoor rodeo which lasts 10 days during the month of July.
Wyoming is a haven for outdoor enthusiasts, the Snowy Range mountains are only 45 miles west and offer skiing, hiking, camping, mountain biking, hunting, fishing and canoeing. Additionally, Vedauwoo Recreation Area and Curt Gowdy State Park boast world class rock climbing, mountain bike trails, hiking, camping and fishing. Glendo Reservoir and Guernsey Reservoir are beautiful lakes north of town just off I-25. Cheyenne is also only about an hour away from most of Colorado’s famous mountain resorts. If you are looking for some “big city” excitement, Denver is a mere 90 minutes away.
To apply, simply email us your resume!