- Place that you are working : Your scope of job differ greatly depending on where you are stationed at. For example, if you work in a general hospitals, definitely your work evolve around making the correct diagnosis so that you can prepare your patient for appropriate management afterward. And in some center, there's options for rehabilitation also following any management of amplification. But if you work at a hearing care center, your job scope changed drastically. Because you now needs to help patient get a properly fitted instruments (usually after a good diagnosis by your fellow clinical audiologist) and then help them get used to the amplification. This is the hard part, making sure that almost all patients wear their hearing instruments at all time and get optimum benefits out of it.
- The mission and vision of your work place : This is also vital. Different company will have different vision and mission. Even if it is a hospital setup. Some hospital focus on out patient basis while some really focus on specific specialization. So all these will determine the pathway and growth of your career. All settings will have its pros and cons. So, you need to really think how you want to grow within the audiology field before deciding on which specialization to take up.
- What you want for yourself : This most of the time can be misleading, especially for new grades. Going around to find out how you can contribute and grow in your career would make huge different in choosing which sub-specialty suits you the best.
Sound simple ha? But not easy to achieve. Most of the time, you will need to adjust according to where you get your first job and progress from there. Be open to learn new thing as it will make you a better audiologist then others. Eventhough sometime you need to work really hard to get to your goal, just be patient and focus on getting there. Look at it as a preparation towards achieving your dream.
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