The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Department of Otolaryngology is recognized as a leading clinical and research center for audiology and cochlear implantation, balance and facial nerve disorders, head and neck cancer, sleep disorders, and other specialties. Combining expert and compassionate care with state-of-the-art medical resources, UT Southwestern offers accurate diagnostic services and effective treatments that make an important difference in patients' lives.
The UT Southwestern, Department of Otolaryngology, Division of Communicative and Vestibular Disorders offers a 12-month externship for audiology graduate students. The program begins the first of June 2026 and concludes the end of May 2027.
Externs at UT southwestern will focus on adult services at UTSW clinic and at Parkland Hospital. They will also focus on pediatric Services at Childrens Medical Center.* There is a cross-over during each rotation to maintain skills for all age groups. In addition to the detailed services provided at each site, the extern will have shorter rotations in OR, ABR, clinic ABR, and Parkland Newborn Nursery. Externs will have an opportunity to observe surgical ENT cases, vestibular physical therapy and the Family Focused Center for Deaf and Hard of Hearing Children.
*Please note that the hiring institution is UT Southwestern Medical Center. Children’s and Parkland rotations will require a separate Letter of Agreement between the extern’s host university and both Parkland Hospital and Childrens Medical Center.
Please note that UT Southwestern will participate in the Audiology Clinical Education Network externship time line for this fall 2025.
- Wednesday, September 17, 2025: Deadline for submitting application materials to individual sites
- Monday, September 22, 2025: Externship sites begin interviewing applicants
- Student Response Deadline for First Round Offerings: Tuesday, October 28, 2025 at 7:00pm EDT
- Ongoing: Supplemental offers may be extended to students if positions are not filled
ACEN timeline allows students to respond to an offer prior to the deadline. The student has 3 choices:
- Accept externship position and notify other sites that they have accepted another position,
- Decline the externship offer
- Wait to respond until the deadline on Tuesday, October 28th at 7pm EDT
Note: All interviews are conducted via zoom link.
Sharlene Taylor
Sr. Program Coordinator (Audio & Speech)
Sharlene.taylor@utsouthwestern.edu
A description of our sites and services is below.
Audiologists at UT Southwestern provide services at multiple clinics: UTSW West Campus clinic (an outpatient facility for primarily adult services), UT Southwestern Frisco (an outpatient facility for pediatrics and adults), and Moncrief Medical Center at Fort Worth (an outpatient facility for primarily adult services), Children's Medical Center (main hospital/outpatient clinic in Dallas, Legacy outpatient clinic in Plano, Perot outpatient clinic in Dallas, and Prosper outpatient clinic), *Parkland Memorial Hospital (outpatient clinic/inpatient care for adults and Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Program), and Clements University Hospital. We provide a wide range of services including diagnostic audiometric evaluations, vestibular examinations, electrophysiological testing, amplification, tinnitus/hyperacusis, bone anchored hearing implants, cochlear and auditory brainstem implant services, and newborn hearing screening. We work with all age groups, from newborns to adults. Details of services provided at each site are listed below:
UTSW West Campus clinic (outpatient ENT office serving the whole age range, with a primary focus on adult care)
- Diagnostic hearing evaluations
- OAEs
- ABR (threshold and neuro-diagnostic)
- ECoG
- ENT/VNG
- vHIT
- Rotary Chair
- Dynamic Platform Posturography
- cVEMP/oVEMP
- Hearing Aid Services
- Cochlear and Brainstem implants
- Bone anchored hearing systems
- Tinnitus/hyperacusis services
Moncrief Medical Center at Fort Worth
- Diagnostic hearing evaluations
- ABR
- EcoG
- ENG/VNG
- HIT
- cVEMP/oVEMP
- Hearing aid services
UT Southwestern Frisco
- Diagnostic hearing evaluations
- OAEs
- ABR (threshold and neuro-diagnostic)
- ECoG
- ENT/VNG
- vHIT
- cVEMP/oVEMP
- Hearing aid services
*Parkland Memorial Hospital (Adult ENT)
- Diagnostic hearing evaluations
- ENG/VNG
- ABR (threshold and neuro-diagnostic)
- ECoG
- OAEs
- oVEMP/cVEMP
- Bone anchored hearing systems
*Parkland Memorial Hospital Universal Newborn Hearing Screening Program
- Oversight and management, including some screening and follow-up testing, for newborn hearing screening program.
- Hearing-Targeted Congenital CMV screening program (HT-cCMV)
*Children's Health Dallas
- Behavioral audiograms, utilizing developmentally appropriate test procedures
- OAEs
- Infant hearing screening
- Unsedated clinic and sedated OR ABRs
- Pediatric amplification services: Dallas main outpatient clinic only
- Bone anchored hearing systems
*Children’s Health Legacy at Plano
- Behavioral audiograms, utilizing developmentally appropriate test procedures
- OAEs
- Infant hearing screening
- Unsedated clinic and sedated OR ABRs
*Children’s Health Perot in Dallas and Children’s Health Prosper
- Behavioral audiograms, utilizing developmentally appropriate test procedures
- OAEs
Clements University Hospital (PRN)
- Audiograms (typically ototoxic monitoring for CF patients)
- OAEs
*Successful applicants must secure separate executed Letters of Agreements between their university and both Parkland Hospital and Childrens Medical Center as a prerequisite to rotate at these designated locations.
Disclaimer: UT Southwestern Medical Center is committed to an educational and working environment that provides equal opportunity to all members of the University community. As an equal opportunity employer, UT Southwestern prohibits unlawful discrimination, including discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability, genetic information, citizenship status, or veteran status