Mayo Clinic Audiology Externship, Rochester MN

Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences offers a one-year Audiology Externship at Mayo Clinic's campus in Rochester, Minnesota. This program provides in-depth clinical knowledge and skills that enable you to provide high-quality, comprehensive audiology care. Education focuses on providing patient care and state-of-the-art clinical audiology services to patients of all ages. During your training, you have the opportunity to rotate through each clinical specialty area within the Division of Audiology, including: Pediatric and adult audiological evaluations Posturography Videonystagmography Rotational chair testing Canalith repositioning procedures Vestibular evoked myogenic potentials Auditory evoked potentials Otoacoustic emissions Hearing aid selection, fitting, and dispensing Adult aural rehabilitation programs Cochlear implant evaluation and programming Newborn hearing screening Tinnitus counseling Equipment calibration Opportunity for clinical research Opportunity for quality improvement projects Opportunity for local presentations within the department of Otorhinolaryngology Opportunity to present at a national audiology conference To be eligible to apply for the Audiology Externship, applicants must currently be enrolled in an accredited Doctor of Audiology program. Candidates must have completed the didactic portion of the degree before being admitted to the externship. In addition, applicants must obtain a Minnesota doctoral externship temporary audiology license.

Externship Information:

Primary Practice Setting:

ENT group practice Hospital Multi-specialty medical center Number of Audiologists at the site: 0 FTE Masters Degree 18 FTE Au.

D. 3 FTE

Ph.

D. 0 FTE

Other Doctorate (ScD) 6 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants) 2 FTE Clerical Support Staff Number of Audiology Students each year: 0 1st year AuD Clinical Rotations 0 2nd year 0 3rd year 2 4th year Externships Financial arrangements: Stipend Will interview travel be compensated?

No Vacation Days:

12 Continuing education opportunities?

Yes Start Date:

6/07/2027 Expected hours/days a week: 40/5 Travel to satellite centers required?

No 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: Externs should be able to demonstrate knowledge and skill to perform the basic test battery for behavioral hearing evaluations on normal developing adults and children. Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: Externs will be able to demonstrate independence in performing diagnostic hearing evaluations, vestibular evaluations, hearing aid programming and verification, cochlear implant evaluation and mapping. Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern: Regularly Hearing Screenings Regularly Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler Regularly Pediatric evaluations: school-age Regularly Adult hearing evaluations Regularly Tympanometry Regularly Acoustic Reflexes Never Auditory processing evaluations Regularly Hearing Screenings Regularly Evoked potential assessments Rarely Intra-operative monitoring cases Regularly Otoacoustic emissions Never Industrial/hearing conservation Regularly Vestibular assessments Rarely Vestibular rehabilitation Regularly Hearing aids dispensed Regularly Hearing aid selection/fitting Rarely Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) Regularly Cochlear implant evaluations Rarely Cochlear implant rehabilitation Rarely Tinnitus assessments Rarely Tinnitus rehabilitation Regularly Cerumen management Research opportunities? Yes Externs have the opportunity to participate in research with Ph.D. staff. 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: timeline for when evaluations are due

Application Deadline:

9/16/2026

Application Requirements:

Letters of Recommendation Resume Transcript Phone interview Letter of request/intent Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: To apply for an externship at Mayo Clinic, please visit: https://college.mayo.

edu/academics/health-sciences-education/audiology-externship-minnesota/ How to apply:

1. Create an account to begin the online Application for Admission

• Select - Mayo Clinic School of Health Sciences
• Select - Audiology Externship 2. Complete each section of the application and submit 3. After submission, view the required Supplemental Items and Documents
• Upload each required item in the Supplemental Items section
• Complete the Recommendation Request section The application cycle will be open from June 16, 2026-September 16, 2026.

Interviews and offers will follow the Audiology Clinical Education Network timeline.

Contact Person:

(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) Janalene Jacobson - jacobson.janalene@mayo.edu Are all externs supervised? Yes To be eligible to apply for the Audiology Externship, applicants must currently be enrolled in an accredited Doctor of Audiology program. Candidates must have completed the didactic portion of the degree before being admitted to the externship. In addition, applicants must obtain a Minnesota doctoral externship temporary audiology license.