| Primary Practice Setting: | ENT group practice Private practice |
Number of Audiologists at the site:
| 0 FTE Masters Degree 5 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 0 3rd year 2 4th year Externships |
| Financial arrangements: | Salary |
| Will interview travel be compensated? | No |
| Vacation Days: | 5 w/pd holidays |
| Continuing education opportunities? | Yes Yes. We have regular trainings with hearing aid manufacturers and are open to those wanting to attend conferences at their personal cost. |
| Start Date: | 06/02/2027 |
| Expected hours/days a week: | M-Th 8-5, Fri 8-12 |
| Travel to satellite centers required? | Yes We have 2 offices that the extern will rotate between. The offices are about 15 minutes apart. |
| 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: | Externs should be able to demonstrate knowledge and skill to perform the basic test battery for behavioral hearing evaluations on normal developing adults and children. |
| Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: | Externs will be able to demonstrate independence in performing diagnostic hearing evaluations, vestibular evaluations, hearing aid programming and verification, BAHA fitting and programming. |
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 | | Never | Auditory processing evaluations | | Rarely | Hearing Screenings | | Regularly | Evoked potential assessments | | Never | Intra-operative monitoring cases | | Everyday | Otoacoustic emissions | | Rarely | Industrial/hearing conservation | | Everyday | Vestibular assessments | | Regularly | Vestibular rehabilitation | | Everyday | Hearing aids dispensed | | Everyday | Hearing aid selection/fitting | | Regularly | Audiologic rehabilitation (group or individualized) | | Regularly | Cochlear implant evaluations | | Regularly | Cochlear implant rehabilitation | | Never | Tinnitus assessments | | Rarely | Tinnitus rehabilitation | | Rarely | 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
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| Communication or other support do expected or required from the university during the externship: | As needed |
| Application Deadline: | 09/17/2026 |
| Application Requirements: | Letters of Recommendation Resume Transcript Phone interview Letter of request/intent We follow the ACEN timeline: Application Deadline: Sept 16th, 2026 Interviews Begin: Sept 22, 2026 (offers can be extended starting now) Final Day for interviews and offers: Oct 14, 2026 Student Response Deadline for first round of offers: Oct 16, 2026 Reposting unfilled positions: Oct 19, 2026 |
| Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: | Please email the appropriate application materials to Erin Steele, Au.D. erin.steele@georgiahearingcenter.com |
Contact Person: (preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator) | Erin Steele, Au.D. - erin.steele@georgiahearingcenter.com |
| Are all externs supervised? | Yes |