The James H. Quillen VA Medical Center ("Mountain Home")  is now accepting applications for one Audiology Externship for the 2025-2026 year. The position is full-time, not-to-exceed 12 months (2080 hours), and is open to Au.D. candidates in their final year of their training programs.

Located in beautiful northeast Tennessee (Johnson City), the James H. Quillen VAMC consists of 240-acres including over 50 buildings, a beautiful pond,  and a National Cemetery.  The medical center is a teaching hospital providing a full range of patient care services with state-of-the-art technology as well as education and research. East Tennessee State University (ETSU) is located across the street from the VAMC and the latest in medical technology enhances the James H. Quillen's VAMC's reputation as a true tertiary care center. 

The James H. Quillen VA Medical Center Audiology Clinic is made up of 12 audiologists, 5 speech-language pathologists and support staff. Several staff members teach Audiology courses at ETSU and there is a large number of clinicians who received their clinical training with the VA. Our clinical services include hearing evaluations, hearing aid fitting and orientation, hearing aid follow-up/troubleshooting, aural rehabilitation, cochlear implant candidacy evaluations and mapping, bone anchored hearing systems, auditory evoked potentials, tinnitus assessment and treatment, vestibular assessment and management and cerumen management. Strong externs may have the opportunity to work in the Mountain Home Hearing and Balance Research Program on funded and unfunded research studies. The externship also allows for interdisciplinary training opportunities throughout the hospital, including rotations through our Community Living Center (CLC), polytrauma clinic, low vision clinic and vestibular rehabilitation in Physical Therapy.