PAID 4th Year Externship - UNC Hearing & Communication Center

UNC Chapel Hill's Hearing and Communication Center is a community based hearing and balance center providing diagnostics and treatment to members of the community. Primarily an adult focused center, students will have opportunities to train along side faculty members from UNC Division of Speech and Hearing Sciences. The center provides hearing evaluations and tinnitus evaluations, Functional Communication Assessments and hearing aid fitting with Real Ear MEasures, Hearing aid Checks/Troubleshooting, and Audiologic Rehabilitation (including virtual AR classes). Additionally, the clinic has a growing balance program, which will provide the student an opportunity to broaden their expertise in comprehensive dizziness case history, bedside evaluation of the dizzy patient, BPPV assessment and treatment, comprehensive VNG evaluation, vHIT evaluation. All clinical opportunities include the implementation of best practice guidelines as recommended by the American Academy of Audiology. Additionally, the 4th year extern could have an opportunity to work with school age population in hearing screening program with local school districts. The extern may participate in OSHA hearing screening program. Finally, the extern will learn about the business of audiology as the clinic functions similar to a private practice. Please notice this is NOT a pediatric focused clinical site, but offers very limited clinical opportunities participating in hearing screenings with school age children. There are other externship opportunities within the UNC Healthcare system that are primarily pediatric focused. Please be sure to submit your application ONLY if you are interested in an adult focused clinical experience year. Check our website to learn more www.uncaudiology.org

Location:

UNC Hearing & Communication Center 6015 Farrington Road #103 Chapel Hill, NC 27517 Please compile the following documents listed below and email all supporting documents in ONE email by Friday, September 4, 2026. Email should be sent to ssjoblad@med.unc.edu by 5:00PM EST. Stephanie Sjoblad, Au.

D. Clinic Director/Professor Please include the following: Cover letter of intent Curriculum Vitae Three official letters of recommendation on university/company stationery Summary of clinical clock hours by category transcript (Typhon, or other) Academic Transcript (unofficial will suffice) Please notice that the extern should be eligible for Temporary NC Licensure, and must have a minimum # of clock hours for consideration. Additionally, to be eligible for NC upon graduation it's recommended the potential extern review the requirements for NC temporary licensure, please review the NC Board of Examiners for SLP Audiology.

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Externship Information:

Primary Practice Setting:

Community speech and hearing center Number of Audiologists at the site: 0 FTE Masters Degree 6 FTE Au.

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Other Doctorate (ScD) 1 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants) 2 FTE Clerical Support Staff Number of Audiology Students each year: 12 1st year AuD Clinical Rotations 4 2nd year 4 3rd year 1 4th year Externships Financial arrangements: Stipend Other - Please Describe Historically, this externship has always been a paid externship. However, the offer will be extended contingent on available funding. The university budget is not finalized until spring 2027 so we cannot guarantee the exact pay when the student accepts the position. Our budget ask will be up to $30,000/year which is paid at an hourly rate. Will interview travel be compensated?

No Vacation Days:

5 Continuing education opportunities? Yes Extern may participate in our Grand Rounds sessions and any onsite CEU opportunities for faculty, the extern will have opportunities to participate (hearing aid trainings, equipement trainings, etc).

Start Date:

May 10, 2027 Expected hours/days a week: 40 Travel to satellite centers required? Yes Local retirement communities and community centers w/ 15 mile range 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: Ability to complete the following w/ limited supervision: hearing evaluations for the adult population, hearing aid evaluations/Funcational Communication Assessments, hearing aid fitting real-ear probe mic measures, Electro-acoustic analysis, hearing aid programming, knowledge of hearing aid troubleshooting, proficiency taking earmold impressions, course work or workshop in cerumen management (preferred). Exposure to balance assessment and treatment is preferable. Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: proficiency in all above measures, as well as developing a strong business sense and learning about coding and reimbursement and importance of community outreach. Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern: Regularly Hearing Screenings Never Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler Never Pediatric evaluations: school-age Everyday Adult hearing evaluations Everyday Tympanometry Everyday Acoustic Reflexes Never Auditory processing evaluations Regularly Hearing Screenings Rarely Evoked potential assessments Never Intra-operative monitoring cases Regularly Otoacoustic emissions Regularly Industrial/hearing conservation Regularly Vestibular assessments Rarely Vestibular rehabilitation Everyday Hearing aids dispensed Everyday Hearing aid selection/fitting Everyday Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) Never Cochlear implant evaluations Never Cochlear implant rehabilitation Regularly Tinnitus assessments Regularly Tinnitus rehabilitation Regularly Cerumen management Research opportunities? No This is a clinical position and any research must occur outside of the 40 hour/week clinic schedule. 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: checking in quarterly or as needed.

Application Deadline:

September 4, 2026

Application Requirements:

Letters of Recommendation Resume Transcript Phone interview Letter of request/intent Other Summary of hours completed to date Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: Submit all required material in one email to ssjoblad@med.unc.edu by September 4, 2026 deadline 5:00PM EST. Zoom interviews will be conducted in mid September and initial offer will be extended by the end of September.

Contact Person:

(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) Stephanie Sjoblad, Au.

D. - ssjoblad@med.unc.edu Are all externs supervised? Yes Please compile the following documents listed below and email all supporting documents in ONE email by Friday, September 4, 2026. Email should be sent to ssjoblad@med.unc.edu by 5:00PM EST. Stephanie Sjoblad, Au.

D. Clinic Director/Professor Please include the following: Cover letter of intent Curriculum Vitae Three official letters of recommendation on university/company stationery Summary of clinical clock hours by category transcript (Typhon, or other) Academic Transcript (unofficial will suffice) Please notice that the extern should be eligible for Temporary NC Licensure, and must have a minimum # of clock hours for consideration. Additionally, to be eligible for NC upon graduation it's recommended the potential extern review the requirements for NC temporary licensure, please review the NC Board of Examiners for SLP Audiology.

http:

//www.ncboeslpa.org/application.htm