VA Northeast Ohio 4th Year Externship

NOTE:

This position is for a 4th year externship ONLY. It is NOT for a full time audiologist position. The VA Northeast Ohio Healthcare System is headquartered in Cleveland, Ohio, where the main VA Medical Center is located. The main facility houses seven sound booths and a comprehensive balance laboratory equipped with VNG, rotary chair testing, VEMP, and vHIT. Our Audiology team includes 23 audiologists and one health technician. In addition to the main medical center, Audiology clinics are located at six outpatient sites: Akron, Canton, Lorain, Parma, Mansfield, and Youngstown. The fourth-year externship offers students a wide variety of clinical experiences. Training includes diagnostic hearing evaluations, hearing aid selection, hearing aid fittings with verification, hearing aid troubleshooting, electrophysiologic testing (ABR, VEMP), vestibular assessment, OAE testing and APD evaluations. Students also have the opportunity to participate in our cochlear implant program, tinnitus management program, and telehealth services. We will be offering two fully funded externship positions for the upcoming training year. Interviews will take place in September at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center. The applicant must be in an accredited AuD program and must be a US citizen. This position posting is ONLY for a 4th year externship.

Externship Information:

Primary Practice Setting:

VA medical center Number of Audiologists at the site: 1 FTE Masters Degree 21 FTE Au.

D. 1 FTE

Ph.

D. 0 FTE

Other Doctorate (ScD) 1 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants) 1 FTE Clerical Support Staff Number of Audiology Students each year: 0 1st year AuD Clinical Rotations 0 2nd year 3 3rd year 2 4th year Externships Financial arrangements: Other - Please Describe We will be offering two extern positions with guaranteed funding. Will interview travel be compensated?

No Vacation Days:

Yes Continuing education opportunities?

Yes Yes Start Date:

May 2027 Expected hours/days a week: 40 Travel to satellite centers required? Yes Up to 65 miles 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: The student should have mastered routine diagnostic hearing exams and have familiarity with fitting hearing aids and performing real ear measurements. Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: The student will be able to independently perform diagnostic hearing exams, hearing aid fittings with real ear measures, balance exams, and electrophysiologic tests. 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 Never Intra-operative monitoring cases Regularly Otoacoustic emissions Regularly Industrial/hearing conservation Regularly 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 Rarely Tinnitus assessments Regularly Tinnitus rehabilitation Regularly Cerumen management Research opportunities? No 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:

N/A Application Deadline:

8/21/2026

Application Requirements:

Letters of Recommendation Resume Letter of request/intent Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: The student or university representative should email ashleigh.wells@va.gov with a cover letter, resume, and three letters of recommendation. The students will be interviewed and, if accepted, the university will be contacted to complete an affiliation agreement if one does not currently exist. Interviews will be held at the Louis Stokes Cleveland VA Medical Center.

Contact Person:

(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) Ashleigh Wells, AuD - ashleigh.wells@va.gov Are all externs supervised? Yes The applicant must be in an accredited AuD program and must be a US citizen. This position posting is ONLY for a 4th year externship.