Pediatric Audiology Externship

The Audiology Department at Children's Minnesota is seeking a Doctor of Audiology (Au.

D.) student to complete a 12 month pediatric externship. The ideal candidate will be highly motivated, flexible, a strong team player and have the desire for a career in pediatric audiology. Competency in adult diagnostics and amplification are prerequisite. Applicants will have completed their university coursework related to pediatrics and will have completed one or more pediatric practicum placements. A primary preceptor is assigned, but the audiology extern will have the opportunity to work with many pediatric audiologists and multi-disciplinary teams across multiple campuses. Services are provided in both inpatient and outpatient, interdisciplinary clinical settings. This is a full-time position with clinical emphasis. The goal of this externship is to provide both breadth and depth of clinical experiences to develop the skills necessary for a career as a pediatric audiologist. Diagnostics As a Doctor of Audiology extern, you can expect to apply your previous clinic experiences to assess a diverse pediatric population including children who are multiply complex. You will concentrate your diagnostic skills on difficult to test children using Visual Reinforcement Audiometry, Conditioned Play Audiometry, Standard Audiometry, Acoustic Reflexes, TE and DP OAEs as well as natural-sleep and sedated auditory brainstem response (ABR) evaluations. Treatment The audiology extern will have the opportunity to follow children from birth to twenty-one years of age. Patients at Children's Minnesota are fit with traditional hearing aids, CROS hearing aids, osseointegrated devices (non-surgical and surgical), and cochlear implants. You will have the opportunity to work closely with patients and their families using evidence-based practice to optimize outcomes. Specialty Teams The audiology extern is expected to work within a very large multi-disciplinary team on a daily basis. This is including, but not limited to, MDs, PAs, APRN-CNPs, nurses, speech pathologists, educational audiologists, special educators, rehabilitation therapists and more. Specialty Teams that the audiology extern directly participates in include 22Q Team, Trisomy 21 Team, Cleft Team, Comprehensive Craniofacial Team and Ear Shape Clinic. The audiology extern must have passed the national Praxis exam prior to their projected June 2027 start date of the externship. Obtain a Minnesota Doctoral Externship License. All paperwork and background check must be completed through the MN Dept. of Health prior to beginning your externship. The responsibility of obtaining an externship license will be that of the extern. Prior to the projected June 2027 start date, an affiliation agreement between Children's Minnesota and the university must be signed. The audiology extern must have liability insurance through their university.

Externship Information:

Primary Practice Setting:

Hospital Number of Audiologists at the site: 0 FTE Masters Degree 20 FTE Au.

D. 0 FTE

Ph.

D. 0 FTE

Other Doctorate (ScD) 4 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants) 0 FTE Clerical Support Staff Number of Audiology Students each year: 0 1st year AuD Clinical Rotations 0 2nd year 3 3rd year 1 4th year Externships Financial arrangements: Stipend Will interview travel be compensated?

No Vacation Days:

10 Continuing education opportunities? Yes The audiology extern is able to participate in on-site continuing education opportunities as well as free local continuing education opportunities.

Start Date:

June 2027 Expected hours/days a week: 40 Travel to satellite centers required? Yes Yes. All externship site campuses are within a 19 mile radius.

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:

• Mastery in adult diagnostics and amplification are prerequisite. Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship:
• Independently perform diagnostic hearing evaluations using standardized and non-standardized testing methods.
• Independently perform sedated and natural-sleep Auditory Brainstem Response evaluations.
• Independently complete pediatric amplification evaluations and fittings.
• Independently perform listening checks on hearings aids, cochlear implants and personal FM systems.
• Identify pediatric candidates for cochlear implantation.
• Assist in the cochlear implant evaluation, mapping and rehabilitation of children who receive implants.
• Accurately describe audiological test results to families, patients, and other professional team members in language that is easy to understand
• Effectively consult with a large multi-disciplinary team to achieve best possible patient outcomes
• Maintain patient data and records in an accurate and timely manner Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern: Regularly Hearing Screenings Everyday Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler Everyday Pediatric evaluations: school-age Regularly Adult hearing evaluations Everyday Tympanometry Everyday Acoustic Reflexes Never Auditory processing evaluations Regularly Hearing Screenings Everyday Evoked potential assessments Never Intra-operative monitoring cases Everyday Otoacoustic emissions Never Industrial/hearing conservation Never Vestibular assessments Never Vestibular rehabilitation Everyday Hearing aids dispensed Everyday Hearing aid selection/fitting Never Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) Everyday Cochlear implant evaluations Regularly Cochlear implant rehabilitation Never Tinnitus assessments Never Tinnitus rehabilitation Never Cerumen management Research opportunities?

Yes Yes. There are often multiple studies running at any given time and audiology externs can participate if interested. Consortium or collaborative arrangements with other sites? No How frequently will the externship site communicate with the university during the externship? As Needed Communication or other support do expected or required from the university during the externship: Prior to the projected June 2027 start date, an affiliation agreement between Children's Minnesota and the university must be signed.

Application Deadline:

September 9, 2026

Application Requirements:

Letters of Recommendation Resume Transcript Phone interview Letter of request/intent Two letters of recommendation required, 1 needs to be from a clinical supervisor. Only graduate transcript required. Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: 1) Students who are interested in applying for the fourth-year externship position should have all application materials emailed to audexternship@childrensmn.org. 2) Screening phone interviews will be rolling as applications arrive. 3) Full interviews, if offered, will take place September 15th-September 16th, 2026.

Contact Person:

(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) Lindsay Hill AuD-Pediatric Audiology Education Director/Externship Preceptor

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hill@childrensmn.org Are all externs supervised? Yes The audiology extern must have passed the national Praxis exam prior to their projected June 2027 start date of the externship. Obtain a Minnesota Doctoral Externship License. All paperwork and background check must be completed through the MN Dept. of Health prior to beginning your externship. The responsibility of obtaining an externship license will be that of the extern. Prior to the projected June 2027 start date, an affiliation agreement between Children's Minnesota and the university must be signed. The audiology extern must have liability insurance through their university.