Our externship program will consists of multiple positions: Options for students: pediatric only, adult only, or a pediatric/adult track. Our facility is a tertiary care center located on Chicago's South Side in Hyde Park. The hospital has a medical school and residency program. Audiology is part of the Department of Surgery and provides outpatient as well as inpatient services to an extremely diverse population. Listed below is a brief description of the Audiology services we provide. Audiology is located in the outpatient facility (Center for Advanced Medicine) however; we are associated with the adult inpatient hospital and Comer Children's Center. Our students will be working with the Audiology staff at all times. Staff includes 18 audiologists, some who are board certified and some of which have their CCC's. The student will have direct supervision throughout their practicum. All audiograms are reviewed and signed off by the audiologists. Our clinic provides "on-call" audiology services to ENT clinics 5 days a week. Daily patients being seen by ENT can have hearing testing performed the same day. We have 15 attending physicians, who have sub specialized in areas of interest; 6 ENT residents, and rotating medical students. We have 2 Neuro-otolaryngologists, 3 pediatric ENTs, and 2 ENTs who specialize in CI. However, all physicians can obtain hearing testing during clinic visits for their patients. This includes both adult and pediatric clinics (age range preemie to geriatrics) Ratio of patients is approximately 50% pediatric 50% adult. We provide adult and pediatric evaluations, including DPOAEs, impedance measurements, VRA, CPA, BOA, traditional audiologic evaluations, ABR/ASSR testing, and VNG testing.

Other services provided include:

adult and pediatric hearing aid evaluations, dispensing and follow-up; adult and pediatric cochlear implant evaluations, activations and follow-up; osseointegrated device dispensing and management (surgical and non-surgical (Baha/Ponto/Osia/Bonebridge); management of universal newborn hearing screening in NICU and well-baby nursery; craniofacial/cleft palate clinic; cystic fibrosis clinic, oncology, cochlear implant clinics, and a vestibular clinic (rotary chair, vhit, vemp, vng, cdp, etc). Our goal is to provide a well-rounded externship experience for students with the opportunity to practice patient management and follow-up. We provide externs with the tools and experiences to become independent clinicians in all aspects of audiology. The student's program must have a signed clinical affiliation agreement with the host school and UChicago Medicine. Please allow for 4-6 weeks processing through our medical legal department.

Application deadline:

September 11, 2026. Interviews will take place on September 19th and notifications will begin the week of September 22nd. Externship runs between May-August 2026 to May-August 2027, with some flexibility in start and end date (a full year placement is expected unless otherwise arranged).

Externship Information:

Primary Practice Setting:

Hospital Number of Audiologists at the site: 0 FTE Masters Degree 18 FTE Au.

D. 1 FTE

Ph.

D. 0 FTE

Other Doctorate (ScD) 3 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants) 1 FTE Clerical Support Staff Number of Audiology Students each year: 0 1st year AuD Clinical Rotations 2 2nd year 2 3rd year 4 4th year Externships Financial arrangements: None Will interview travel be compensated?

No Vacation Days:

2 weeks + sick days Continuing education opportunities? Yes Occasional training by hearing aid and cochlear implant manufacturers. The extern will be given time to attend continuing education as they wish, however no financial support is provided.

Start Date:

May-August 2027 Expected hours/days a week: 4 /10 hr or 5 /8 Hr Travel to satellite centers required? Yes Yes, travel to satellite center no greater than 39 miles from main hospital campus 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:

• Basic diagnostic audiometry including masking-Basic hearing aid fitting, selection, real ear measurments,and hearing aid maintenance-Ability to perform accurate ear mold impressions-Knowledge of electroyphysiologic measurements-Knowledge of vestibular evaluations-Clear and accurate report writing skills-Professional attitudes toward patients, colleagues, and staff-Willingness to learn-Willingness to work hard-Willingness to collaborate and coordinate patient care with clinic staff Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: By the end of the externship, we expect students to be "independent" clinicians and are seen as a valuable member of our team.

Students will demonstrate increased clinical proficiency and professionalism, ability to deliver patient centered care and make sound clinical judgements Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern: Regularly Hearing Screenings Everyday Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler Everyday Pediatric evaluations: school-age Everyday Adult hearing evaluations Everyday Tympanometry Everyday Acoustic Reflexes Never Auditory processing evaluations Regularly Hearing Screenings Regularly Evoked potential assessments Regularly Intra-operative monitoring cases Everyday Otoacoustic emissions Rarely Industrial/hearing conservation Everyday Vestibular assessments Rarely Vestibular rehabilitation Everyday Hearing aids dispensed Everyday Hearing aid selection/fitting Rarely Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) Everyday Cochlear implant evaluations Regularly Cochlear implant rehabilitation Regularly Tinnitus assessments Rarely Tinnitus rehabilitation Regularly Cerumen management Research opportunities? Yes Research and quality improvement initiative opportunities are available for students. Consortium or collaborative arrangements with other sites? No How frequently will the externship site communicate with the university during the externship? Bi-Monthly Communication or other support do expected or required from the university during the externship:

• Affiliation agreement-All pertinent evaluation forms-Will provide timely awareness of all student deadlines

Application Deadline:

09/11/2026

Application Requirements:

Letters of Recommendation Resume Other Letter of intent with the following information: Please indicate preferred externship track (pediatric only externship; adult only externship, or hybrid {pediatric & adult} externship) in the letter of intent as well as the subject line of the application e-mail.

• Why you are considering an externship at UChicago Medicine?
• What do you hope to achieve during your externship?
• Your particular interest areas in Audiology.
• Brief description of your clinical experiences to date.

At least 2 letters of recommendations from clinical supervisors. Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: If you are interested in applying for our externship, please send application materials to the attention of the externship committee via email at UCHAudiology@uchicagomedicine.org Please feel free to contact if you have any additional questions or need further details regarding the application process.

Contact Person:

(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) Brittney Sprouse, Au.

D.

• UCHAudiology@uchicagomedicine.

org Are all externs supervised? Yes The student's program must have a signed clinical affiliation agreement with the host school and UChicago Medicine. Please allow for 4-6 weeks processing through our medical legal department.

Application deadline:

September 11, 2026. Interviews will take place on September 19th and notifications will begin the week of September 22nd. Externship runs between May-August 2026 to May-August 2027, with some flexibility in start and end date (a full year placement is expected unless otherwise arranged).