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Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis, TN – Audiology 4th Year Externship
LeBonheur Children's Hospital

Memphis, Tennessee

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Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis, TN – Audiology 4th Year Externship
LeBonheur Children's Hospital
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Posted: 01-Jul-25

Location: Memphis, Tennessee

Type: Contract

Categories:

Allied Health
Au.D. Externship

Financial Arrangements:

Stipend

Primary Practice Setting:

Hospital

Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis, TN is seeking a 4th year extern in pediatric audiology for the 2026-2027 school year. Le Bonheur is ranked as one of the nation’s top children’s hospitals by U.S. News & World Report, and is the premiere children’s hospital for Memphis and the surrounding areas. Audiology services at Le Bonheur are provided to children ages birth to 21 years at two locations. Patients are seen as inpatient, outpatient, through busy ENT clinics and in the operating room. The extern will gain extensive experience in pediatric audiology, including diagnostics, electrophysiology, hearing aids and cochlear implants while under the supervision of 5 experienced pediatric audiologists.

Interested applicants should be motivated, focused, energetic and organized, and possess excellent communication and interpersonal skills. The position will be a 12-month contract, with an approximate start date of June 1, 2026.

Please submit all application materials by 8/15/2025 to Oana Hendea, M.S., CCC-A at oana.hendea@lebonheur.org

Externship Information:
Primary Practice Setting: Hospital
Number of Audiologists at the site:
 1 FTE Masters Degree
4 FTE Au.D.
0 FTE Ph.D.
0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD)
1 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants)
3 FTE Clerical Support Staff
Number of Audiology Students each year:
 0 1st year AuD Clinical Rotations
0 2nd year
3 3rd year
3 4th year Externships
Financial arrangements: Stipend
Will interview travel be compensated? No
Vacation Days: TBD
Continuing education opportunities? Yes
n/a
Start Date: 6/1/2026
Expected hours/days a week: 40
Travel to satellite centers required? Yes
16 miles between locations
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: For consideration, applicants are required to have:
Proficiency in conventional audiometry
Experience with otoacoustic emissions, acoustic reflex testing, and auditory brainstem response testing
Experience with visual reinforcement and conditioned play audiometry, both as tester and test assistant
Experience with hearing aid selection, fitting, orientation and troubleshooting
Goal of becoming a pediatric audiologist
Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: Externs will graduate with:
•Independence in working with children with hearing loss and their families
•Independence in VRA, CPA, OAE and ABR testing
•Independence in pediatric hearing aid evaluation, selection, fitting, orientation and follow-up
•Independence in completing newborn hearing screenings and diagnostic testing in the NICU
•Independence in completing ABRs under general anesthesia in the OR
•Exposure to cochlear implant candidacy evaluations and follow-up
•Confidence with a variety of pediatric patients, including outpatients, ENT patients, inpatients, and patients seen in the operating room
Clinical opportunities that will be given to the extern:
Regularly Hearing Screenings
Everyday Pediatric evaluations: infant/toddler
Everyday Pediatric evaluations: school-age
Rarely Adult hearing evaluations
Everyday Tympanometry
Regularly Acoustic Reflexes
Never Auditory processing evaluations
Regularly Hearing Screenings
Regularly Evoked potential assessments
Never Intra-operative monitoring cases
Everyday Otoacoustic emissions
Never Industrial/hearing conservation
Never Vestibular assessments
Never Vestibular rehabilitation
Regularly Hearing aids dispensed
Regularly Hearing aid selection/fitting
Never Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized)
Regularly Cochlear implant evaluations
Never Cochlear implant rehabilitation
Never Tinnitus assessments
Never Tinnitus rehabilitation
Rarely Cerumen management
Research opportunities? No
In general, no. Rare opportunities not excluded.
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: Contact person from the extern's university.
Application Deadline: 8/15/2025
Application Requirements: Other
Two letters of recommendation from clinical supervisors
Letter of intent
Resume
Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: Upon acceptance, direct communication with student's graduate program will be established.
Contact Person:
(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator)		 Oana Hendea - oana.hendea@lebonheur.org
Are all externs supervised? Yes

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About LeBonheur Children's Hospital
Recognized among the nation’s “Best Children’s Hospitals” by U.S. News & World Report, Le Bonheur is always on the side of children, advocating on their behalf so we can provide them with the care they need. We are a Magnet-designated facility, the ultimate credential for high-quality patient care. From the ordinary bumps and sniffles of childhood to its most life-altering extremes, Le Bonheur Children’s is prepared for whatever a child’s life might throw at us. We are never surprised by what kids bring with them when they come through our doors. It’s been that way since we opened in 1952. We’ve mattered to children every day since.
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