 Fourth Year Externships
Fourth-year Au.D. candidates will complete an externship designed to extend
and refine their clinical skills. The extern will be under the supervision
of a licensed and certified audiologist (the Preceptor) at a site external
to the University of Louisville. This will require the extern to relocate
to another city in most cases. (Note: there may also be a limited number of
opportunities to complete the externship in the city of Louisville).
The externship experience is intended to encompass general audiology
practice. The extership site should demonstrate the capacity to provide the
desired clinical educational experience by providing documentation of
staffiing, depth and breadth of clinical experiences, physical environment
and facilities, adequate resourses, time for learning, complementary
activities, supervisory controls and a willingness to participate in the
evaluation of student competencies.
The extern is a "student-in-training" who receives supervision in compliance
with professional, ethical and legal expectations. The extern should not be
licensed, either fully nor provisionally, to practice audiology
independently. The extern should not receive compensation as an employee.
The extern may receive stipends, traineeships, assistantships, tuition
remission and/or grants commonly associated with student training.
The extern, with help from the University of Louisville faculty, will locate
potential externship sites and preceptors during their third year of
on-campus study. The student, faculty and the preceptor will determine
whether or not the site meets the needs of the student and external site.
Externships generally begin in May and end just before graduation the
following year.
The extern is supervised and evaluated throughout the externship experience.
The preceptor and a University of Louisville faculty liason are in
constant communication concerning the extern's progress. Externs also
communicate with their faculty liason via telephone, e-mail and live group
chats on the internet. These encounters serve to guide and mentor the
extern as they adjust to new clinical protocols and expectation of the
externship site.
More detail guidelines about the 4th-Year Expenship experience are available
in the Practicum Regulations document distributed to all audiology students
in the Au.D. program.
Externship Guidlines
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