Paid 4th Year Audiology Externship at Long Beach VA

The Tibor Rubin VA Medical Center in Long Beach, California is excited to offer the opportunity for a 4 th year audiology externship. We have secured funding for 1 extern and have requested funding for a second. The externship is a 12-month, full-time commitment with anticipated start date May/June 2027 and will consist of 2080 hours for completion. VA Long Beach Externship

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Applications must be received via email by midnight on September 16, 2025. The application packet should include a statement of intent, resume, graduate school transcripts and three references who are familiar with your academic and/or clinical skills. Transcripts may be unofficial. These items should be submitted as a single PDF document. Late submissions, submissions including information not requested, applications not submitted as one single document, submissions that are not in PDF form, or incomplete applications

WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

Externship Information:

Primary Practice Setting:

VA medical center Number of Audiologists at the site: 0 FTE Masters Degree 14 FTE Au.

D. 0 FTE

Ph.

D. 0 FTE

Other Doctorate (ScD) 7 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 1 4th year Externships Financial arrangements: Stipend Benefits Will interview travel be compensated?

No Vacation Days:

Yes Continuing education opportunities?

Yes Start Date:

5/31/2027 Expected hours/days a week: 40 hours/week 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: Comprehensive diagnostic hearing exams (including OAEs, tympanometry, and masking) Basic hearing aid selection, fitting, and adjustment Report writing Basic knowledge of electrophysiologic and vestibular exams Basic knowledge of cochlear implant exams Basic knowledge of tinnitus exams and treatment Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship:

• Outpatient hearing aid evaluation and fitting
• Cochlear implant evaluation and mapping
• Osseointegrated device evaluation and fitting
• OAE, Tympanometry with reflexes
• ASSR/ABR, ECochG, oVEMP, and cVEMP
• Calorics, positionals, Rotational chair, CDP, and vHIT
• Vestibular rehabilitation
• Tinnitus Assessment
• Tinnitus Management
• TeleAudiology
• Cerumen management (Curette, Lavage, and Suction)
• Hearing aid adjustment, troubleshooting, and repair
• Interoperative Monitoring
• Aural Rehabilitation
• Inpatient Case Management 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 Rarely Auditory processing evaluations Regularly Hearing Screenings Regularly Evoked potential assessments Regularly Intra-operative monitoring cases Everyday Otoacoustic emissions Never Industrial/hearing conservation Everyday Vestibular assessments Regularly Vestibular rehabilitation Everyday Hearing aids dispensed Everyday Hearing aid selection/fitting Regularly Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) Regularly Cochlear implant evaluations Regularly Cochlear implant rehabilitation Regularly Tinnitus assessments Regularly Tinnitus rehabilitation Everyday Cerumen management Research opportunities?

Yes Potential for research depending on student interest Consortium or collaborative arrangements with other sites? No How frequently will the externship site communicate with the university during the externship? Monthly Communication or other support do expected or required from the university during the externship: Academic affiliation agreement, ability to communicate concerns to program coordinator in a timely manner, university has a plan in place for students struggling to meet expectations

Application Deadline:

9/16/26

Application Requirements:

Letters of Recommendation Resume Transcript Personal Review Phone interview Letter of request/intent Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: All qualifying submissions will be reviewed and selected students will be contacted for interviews.

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Applications must be received via email by midnight on September 16, 2026. The application packet should include a statement of intent, resume, graduate school transcripts and three references who are familiar with your academic and/or clinical skills. Transcripts may be unofficial. These items should be submitted as a single PDF document. Late or incomplete applications will not be considered. Unsolicited references will not be reviewed.

Contact Person:

(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) Amber Kasten

• amber.

kasten@va.gov Are all externs supervised? Yes

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Applications must be received via email by midnight on September 16, 2025. The application packet should include a statement of intent, resume, graduate school transcripts and three references who are familiar with your academic and/or clinical skills. Transcripts may be unofficial. These items should be submitted as a single PDF document. Late submissions, submissions including information not requested, applications not submitted as one single document, submissions that are not in PDF form, or incomplete applications

WILL NOT BE

CONSIDERED.