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Audiology 4th year Externship-Paid
Phoenix VA Health Care System

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Audiology 4th year Externship-Paid
Phoenix VA Health Care System
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Posted: 17-Jun-25

Location: Phoenix VA Health Care System

Type: Full Time

Categories:

Allied Health
Au.D. Externship

Financial Arrangements:

Stipend
Benefits
Other – Please Describe

Primary Practice Setting:

Community medical center
VA medical center

Additional Information:

3 openings available.

PVAHCS Audiology is looking for proactive, motivated, and energetic externs focused on Veteran centered care. We provide a rich educational environment with our clinical and educational expertise that spans more than 24 years of VA experience. Our training program has been in existence for more than 40 years and is grounded in providing exceptional healthcare to Veterans as well as a well-rounded clinical education for students. The medical center is located near downtown Phoenix while our CBOCs, where face to face audiology services are offered, are located in the suburbs of Gilbert and Surprise. We also provide diagnostic and hearing aid services via teleaudiology in partnership with telehealth technicians at 3 additional CBOCs. 

Externship Information:
Primary Practice Setting: Community medical center
VA medical center
Number of Audiologists at the site:
 0 FTE Masters Degree
23 FTE Au.D.
0 FTE Ph.D.
0 FTE Other Doctorate (ScD)
10 FTE professional support staff (technicians/audiometric assistants)
5 FTE Clerical Support Staff
Number of Audiology Students each year:
 0 1st year AuD Clinical Rotations
0 2nd year
0 3rd year
3 4th year Externships
Financial arrangements: Stipend
Benefits
Other – Please Describe
Funding is assigned by the Office of Academic Affairs (OAA). OAA funding is announced nationally at the same time which should allow sites to know funding at approximately the same time. Due to the breadth and depth of our training program, historically at our site we have been awarded the maximum allocation of funded 4th year externships. After the September 19 deadline, all applications are reviewed and interview requests are sent out to students soon thereafter. Selections will be made NLT October 20.
Will interview travel be compensated? No
Vacation Days: All federal holidays
Continuing education opportunities? Yes
Externs are offered and involved in the same on-site (or virtual) training opportunities available to full-time staff. Funded externs are permitted to request approval to attend off-site trainings as they are available.
Start Date: June 2026
Expected hours/days a week: 40 hrs/wk; M-F
Travel to satellite centers required? Yes
31 miles from the Medical Center
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: Knowledge and skills consistent with completion of 3 years in a clinical and didactic program of study in an accredited AuD program.
Externship site expects the extern to learn/demonstrate these skills during their clinical externship: 1. Veteran centered care delivery
2. Understanding and demonstration of foundational audiological principles and techniques.
3. Emerging skills in subspecialty areas such as implantables, vestibular assessment, and progressive tinnitus management.
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
Everyday Acoustic Reflexes
Never Auditory processing evaluations
Rarely Hearing Screenings
Regularly Evoked potential assessments
Never Intra-operative monitoring cases
Regularly Otoacoustic emissions
Rarely Industrial/hearing conservation
Regularly 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
Regularly Tinnitus assessments
Regularly Tinnitus rehabilitation
Regularly Cerumen management
Research opportunities? No
No current research offerings; however, students may certainly participate if opportunities become available.
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: Deadlines for evaluations/assessments, program expectations, etc.
Application Deadline: September 19
Application Requirements: Letters of Recommendation
Resume
Transcript
Phone interview
Letter of request/intent
Cover letter
CV/resume
3 letters of recommendation
Graduate and Undergraduate transcripts (unofficial or official)
Virtual interview required
Steps for the student/university to follow in the application process: Please electronically submit all required materials to: sarah.hallowitz@va.gov
Contact Person:
(preceptor, supervisor or extern coordinator)		 Sarah Hallowitz - sarah.hallowitz@va.gov
Are all externs supervised? Yes

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About Phoenix VA Health Care System
The Phoenix VA Health Care System is one of the leading health care systems serving Veterans in the VA Desert Pacific Network. We're an innovative care center within the Veterans Integrated Service Network 22 (VISN 22). Our Carl T. Hayden VA Medical Center is a teaching hospital that provides a full range of health services for Veterans, with state-of-the-art technology as well as education and research. We provided professional training in 2022 for more than 1,400 medical professionals in most major medical and surgical specialties. The Phoenix VA Health Care System serves the health care needs of more than 120,000 Veterans in central Arizona. As of February 2023, we employed 4,239 people.
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