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2025-2026 Externship at Columbia, Missouri VA Hospital
Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital
Application
Details
Posted: 24-Sep-24
Location: Columbia, Missouri
Type: Full Time
Categories:
Allied Health
Au.D. Externship
Financial Arrangements:
Stipend
Benefits
Primary Practice Setting:
VA medical center
Salary Details:
Historically our externship positions have been funded by the VA's Office of Academic Affiliations (OAA). Funding is pending final budgetary approval.
Additional Information:
2 openings available.
The Audiology Service at the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital in Columbia, Missouri is offering two 4th year Au.D. externship positions for the 2025-2026 academic year. A stipend is tentative based on final budget approval. The position is a 12 month commitment with an anticipated start date of May 2025. Our main facility is located in Columbia on the campus of the University of Missouri, home of the Mizzou Tigers, and works in coordination with 7 Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) providing audiology services throughout a large portion of Missouri. Columbia possesses a unique blend of metropolitan flair and Midwestern hospitality. The city, located approximately 125 miles from both Kansas City and St. Louis, has a population of 126,000, including 30,000 students from three area colleges. Several publications have rated Columbia as one of the nation's best cities in which to live.
Clinic services include comprehensive audiologic evaluations, amplification including assistive devices, ABR, vestibular evaluations including VEMP and VHIT, cochlear implants, osseointegrated hearing aids, cerumen management, tinnitus management, aural rehabilitation, CAPD evaluations, observation in the ENT clinic and interdisciplinary meetings with ENT and other services. The extern will also be responsible for providing hearing aid repair services to the short and long-term inpatient populations in the facility’s Community Living Center and coordinating the scheduling of clinic appointments for those veterans as needed. Additionally, telehealth services are provided. Additional information is available on the AVAA website at Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital | My AVAA.
All interested students should send a cover letter, resume, a copy of unofficial transcripts, and at least three signed letters of recommendation including contact information for reference purposes to heather.neudecker@va.gov. Two letters of recommendation should be from off-campus/non-university affiliated supervisors, if possible.
PLEASE SUBMIT ALL APPLICATION MATERIALS BY Tuesday October 8th.
For additional information or questions please call 573-814-6357 or email heather.neudecker@va.gov.
Externship Information:
Primary Practice Setting:
VA medical center
Number of Audiologists at the site:
0 FTE Masters Degree 13 FTE Au.D. 1 FTE Ph.D. 0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD) 5 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 1 3rd year 2 4th year Externships
Financial arrangements:
Stipend Benefits
Will interview travel be compensated?
No
Vacation Days:
4 hours/pay period
Continuing education opportunities?
Yes Onsite and off-site manufacturer and trainings
Start Date:
May 2025
Expected hours/days a week:
40
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 hearing evaluations - Selection and fitting of hearing aid/assistive devices including real ear verification
Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship:
Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:
Rarely
Hearing Screenings
Never
Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler
Never
Pediatric evaluations: school-age
Everyday
Adult hearing evaluations
Everyday
Tympanometry
Rarely
Acoustic Reflexes
Regularly
Auditory processing evaluations
Rarely
Hearing Screenings
Regularly
Evoked potential assessments
Never
Intra-operative monitoring cases
Regularly
Otoacoustic emissions
Regularly
Industrial/hearing conservation
Everyday
Vestibular assessments
Rarely
Vestibular rehabilitation
Everyday
Hearing aids dispensed
Everyday
Hearing aid selection/fitting
Everyday
Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized)
Regularly
Cochlear implant evaluations
Regularly
Cochlear implant rehabilitation
Regularly
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:
Clear communication with a designated point of contact Affiliation agreement between VA and participating university is required
Application Deadline:
10/8/24
Application Requirements:
Resume Other Cover letter Transcript (unofficial acceptable) At least 3 signed letters of recommendation, 2 of which should be from off-campus/non-university affiliated supervisors, if possible. Virtual interview
Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process:
Email application materials including cover letter, resume, unofficial transcripts, and 3 letters of recommendation to Heather Neudecker, Au.D., CCC-A at heather.neudecker@va.gov.
Contact Person: (preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator)
The Audiology Service at the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital in Columbia, Missouri offers a wide range of services including comprehensive audiologic evaluations, amplification and assistive devices, ABR, vestibular evaluations including VEMP and VHIT, cochlear implants, osseointegrated hearing aids, cerumen management, tinnitus management, aural rehabilitation, telehealth services and CAPD evaluations. Our main facility is located in Columbia on the campus of the University of Missouri, home of the Mizzou Tigers, and is staffed by 8 audiologists. Additionally, our facility works in coordination with 7 Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) providing audiology services throughout a large portion of Missouri.
