Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the third-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist's two main components are an integrated clinical system - anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, a 933-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem - that includes Atrium Health Levine Children's Brenner Children's Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery. The Audiology Department at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of the Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery and offers comprehensive diagnostic testing and treatment for individuals across the lifespan. Our Winston Salem team includes 16 audiologists who are committed to providing quality, family-centered care and the use of best practices. We have three audiology locations that our externs have the opportunity to rotate through on a regular basis. This is a vestibular focused externship. The vestibular lab operates five days per week and is staffed by three audiologists. The extern will be in the vestibular lab three days per week, with exposure to adult and pediatric audiology the other two days. The vestibular lab is a comprehensive clinic offering videonystagmography, rotational chair, skull vibration, multi-canal vHIT, ABR, as well as Ocular and Cervical VEMP. We perform canalith repositioning for all forms of BPPV. We work closely with three neuro-otologists and a staff of specialty trained Physician Assistants. There is a heavy educational component as we train residents, medical students, and physician assistant students. Please e-mail your letter of intent, resume, 3 letters of recommendation, and graduate school transcripts to Elaine Orcutt, AuD (martha.orcutt@advocatehealth.org) and Sam Brown, AuD (samuel.brown@advocatehealth.org). In the subject line, please specify that you are applying for the vestibular externship. We will be hosting virtual open houses for potential students on the following dates with the link below: Tuesday, August 25th at 7pm EST or Thursday, September 3rd at 7pm

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https://wakehealth.webex.com/meet/morcutt Thank you for your interest in our externship program. If you are interested in applying for our general audiology externship, please see the other post! We look forward to reviewing your application!

Externship Information:

Primary Practice Setting:

University medical center Number of Audiologists at the site: 2 FTE Masters Degree 17 FTE Au.

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

No Vacation Days:

10+hospital holidays Continuing education opportunities? Yes Students are encouraged to participate in continuing education opportunities when available.

Start Date:

06/01/2026 Expected hours/days a week: 40 Travel to satellite centers required? Yes approximately 15 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: See description Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: See description Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern: Rarely Hearing Screenings Everyday Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler Everyday Pediatric evaluations: school-age Everyday Adult hearing evaluations Everyday Tympanometry Regularly Acoustic Reflexes Regularly Auditory processing evaluations Rarely Hearing Screenings Everyday Evoked potential assessments Never Intra-operative monitoring cases Everyday Otoacoustic emissions Never Industrial/hearing conservation Everyday Vestibular assessments Everyday Vestibular rehabilitation Everyday Hearing aids dispensed Everyday Hearing aid selection/fitting Rarely Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) Everyday Cochlear implant evaluations Everyday Cochlear implant rehabilitation Everyday Tinnitus assessments Everyday Tinnitus rehabilitation Everyday Cerumen management Research opportunities? No no Consortium or collaborative arrangements with other sites? No How frequently will the externship site communicate with the university during the externship? Bi-Monthly Communication or other support do expected or required from the university during the externship: Periodic grading and communication as needed.

Application Deadline:

09/23/2026

Application Requirements:

Letters of Recommendation Resume Transcript Letter of request/intent Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: Please e-mail your letter of intent, resume, 3 letters of recommendation, and graduate school transcripts to Elaine Orcutt (martha.orcutt@advocatehealth.org) and Sam Brown (samuel.brown@advocatehealth.org).

Contact Person:

(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) Elaine Orcutt, AuD - martha.orcutt@advocatehealth.org Are all externs supervised? Yes