Agenda for UCSD AUD Program Orientation

 

*Items marked with  *  must be done prior to the first day of classes with certifications printed and copies given to me.

 

Registration/Enrollment

 

  • PAC Code:  You will receive your Personal Access Code either in the mail to your home address or at SDSU to your mailbox.  The PAC is needed to enroll online for classes.

 

  • Use TritonLink.  https://tritonlink.ucsd.edu/portal/site/tritonlink-preview   GET FAMILIAR WITH IT.
    • See link for “check holds”.
    • WebReg Tutorial suggested to help you learn the UCSD system

 

  • *Required: EVERY QUARTER:  Resolve enrollment/registration holds you may have with the registrar’s office and/or graduate studies.  If you will be receiving an incomplete in a course for any reason (research continuing….) then you must come to Dr. Zettner to fill out a request to receive an incomplete form and take it to the Registrar’s office.   Please inform Dr. Zettner of any enrollment/ registration holds.

 

  • WebCT:  equivalent of Blackboard.  WE ARE ALL LEARNING THIS NEW SYSTEM, please be patient with the faculty.
    • Students must self-register for an instructional account at http://sdacs.ucsd.edu/~icc/acsreg.php . This will help you establish an account that will stay with you throughout your studies here. You will need to know your PAC to choose a password.
    • As part of the process you will receive an email account on sdcc3 (one of the instructional servers). You will then be able to get mail to your login name @ucsd.edu. We recommend you set your mail to deliver to a preferred mailbox (probably one you already have) at http://acs.ucsd.edu/email/redirect.php.  Otherwise your mail will be interrupted if you have a lapse in registration.

 

Identification/Security:

 

  • *Required UCSD student ID:   http://www-bfs.ucsd.edu/sbs/Campus_Card.html#hours
    • This gives you library, bus/shuttle, recreation, etc privileges.
    • The office is open for business 8:00 am - 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.
    • The Campus Card Unit is located in Student Account and University Billing Services at 201 University Center, Building 201 (across the street from the Registrar's Office).
    •  
  • *Required Photo ID badge (security health badge) for clinical work:  You may not enter the audiology clinic without it.   Take ID with you.
    • The office location is two blocks east the main entrance to UCSD Medical Center - Hillcrest near the intersection of Front Street and Arbor Drive.  Hours are posted:  MWF from 8-12 and 1-3:45.  Call (619) 543-3762 for an appointment (recommended). They also come to Thornton the 4th Tues of the month from 11-2 in  the Triton Conference Room.

 

Online Training Courses:

 

  • * Required Human subjects training:   http://www.irb.ucsd.edu/webtraining/
    • Complete the online self-guided training, printout the final page, sign and return to me.  You may wish to make a copy for yourself.

Immunization and Liability:

 

  • *Required TB/Hep B immunization verification, bring a copy to me for UCSD record keeping.
    1. TB test is required. 
    2. Hep B is recommended.  You’ll need it for Year III placements, you might as well start the process now.  SDSU health center is a good place to get these tests/shots.

 

  • *Required Student Professional Liability Insurance: you obtain this at SDSU. 

Renewal is on a January through January. You have current insurance, but you must renew it in January. You are responsible for keeping this up to date. 

 

Parking information:

 

  • Parking:  There are a number of options for parking at or near Perlman/Thornton Hospital.  Access the webpage:  http://blink.ucsd.edu/Blink/External/Topics/Policy/0,1162,11874,00.html
    • FREE options:
      • City bus routes that you can ride for free with your UCSD pass, see website listed above 
      • Some people park for free on Campus Point Drive a few blocks away from Perlman and walk in.  It’s not far and “by gosh, it’s free!”  Be aware that you’ll probably need to arrive before 7:45am to get a space.  One of our audiologists has been doing this for years.  Ask the YIII students if they have suggestions.
    • Yellow parking spaces are for students...large student lots very close to Perlman/Thornton.
    • Green parking permits.  Green spaces: Scripps, Hillcrest, and Thornton/Perlman.  You can also pay for parking in green spaces for $6/day.  UCSD information booth on Gilman Dr and the Thornton lot have a kiosk to purchase a parking tag for a day
    • DO NOT PARK IN Thornton/Perlman VISITOR LOT!  SPACE IS LIMITED AND IS FOR PATIENTS AND THEIR VISITORS ONLY

 

Dress Code: 

Professional attire for clinic at all times.  You represent yourself as well as the rest of the AuD program.

            No blue denim (jeans or jacket).

            No open toed shoes.

            Shirt and pants must meet when bending over or raising arms.

            All body art/piercing must be covered or removed.  Tongue rings must be removed.

Short white coat (about 28” long coat) required for preceptorship, optional for clinic.  Men must wear a tie.

                        (you’ll feel more a part of the team of healthcare workers when you have your coat on!)

                        available many places e.g.  http://webmedbooks.com/ucsd/content/browse.aspx/id=115763/

            No halter tops.

            Appropriate undergarments.

            Scrubs available in the surgery prep room for watching surgeries.

P.S. No one will notice or care if you wear the same outfit all the time (as long as it’s clean J )

 

Curriculum/Calendar:

http://registrar.ucsd.edu/ver2/academics/calendars/calendars.html

 

  • Negotiating with classmates is not permitted as way to resolve schedule conflicts.  Any conflict with schedules must be discussed with me so that we can come to a satisfactory solution. 

 

  • Group A clinic and an elective.
    • Look through the schedule of classes to see what interests you for an elective. You must have it approved by your advisor before you register for it. 

 

  • Group B otology preceptorships and clinical assignment. You are assigned to either a Tues or a Thurs morning Preceptorship.  In addition, you are required to observe as many surgeries as possible.  Currently, surgeries are scheduled Wednesday mornings through about 2pm.  There is a surgery schedule posted on the bulletin board in the clinic.  Check list each week.  Surgeries you’ll observe include stapedectomy, tympanoplasty, bone anchored hearing aid implantation, labyrinthectomy, tumor resections etc. 

 

*Preceptorship Requirements:

1.      A short white lab coat is required for all students during preceptorship.  Men must wear a tie.

2.      Arrive before 9:00am.  Meeting place: Nurses station in our clinic.

3.      Scrubs in surgery, available outside the surgery rooms. 

4.      Prerequisite Reading:

Dr. Harris requires chapters on the ear and balance (p 1-163) from the book:
The Clinical Handbook of Ear, Nose and Throat Disorders (2002).  Wilson, W. R., Nadol, J. B., and Randolph, G. W.     Parthenon Publishing ISBN 1-85070-605-0
*Perlman Clinic has a copy, but you can not remove it from the clinic.  Check UCSD and SDSU libraries.  The students before you may have a copy you can use.

 

  • Group C: Clinic and research rotation
    • Contact your research advisor as soon as possible to introduce yourself and set up a time to discuss your research experience with them.  You will work them the equivalent of one full day each week during your assigned quarter.  They may want you to work all one day/week, or on two separate ½ days depending on their research.

AND his assistant Melanie Ariessohn    mariessohn@ucsd.edu 

AND his assistant Julie Lightner     jlightner@ucsd.edu

 

 

 

 

Fall Quarter 06 UCSD Courses

 

 

 

Year II Group

 

 

 

Professor:

units

 

A

Clinic/

Elective

 

B

Clinic/

Precep

 

C

Clinic/

Research

 

 

AUD 255

Anat/Physio Aud/Vest Sys

Mullen

4

4

4

4

 

AUD 271

Temporal Bone Anatomy

Benitez/Nyugen/ Palacios

4

4

4

4

 

AUD 270

APD

Zettner

3

3

3

3

 

AUD 291

Clinical Case Studies/Staffings

Zettner

1

1

1

1

 

VARIES

Research Method

Varies

varies

Opt.

Opt

√

 

AUD 295

Research Lab Rotation

Register for correct section re: faculty you work with

3

3 

 3

3

 

AUD 236

Neuro-Oto Preceptorship *

Harris

2

- 

2

 -

 

AUD 284

Clinical Practice

Zettner

4

4

4

 1

 

 

VARIES

Elective (see below)

Varies

varies

√

Opt.

Opt