Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is a pre-eminent academic health system based in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of Advocate Health, which is headquartered in Charlotte, North Carolina, and is the third-largest nonprofit health system in the United States, created from the combination of Atrium Health and Advocate Aurora Health. Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist’s two main components are an integrated clinical system – anchored by Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center, an 885-bed tertiary-care hospital in Winston-Salem – that includes Atrium Health Levine Children's Brenner Children’s Hospital, five community hospitals, more than 300 primary and specialty care locations and more than 2,700 physicians; and Wake Forest School of Medicine, the academic core of Atrium Health Enterprise and a recognized leader in experiential medical education and groundbreaking research that includes Wake Forest Innovations, a commercialization enterprise focused on advancing health care through new medical technologies and biomedical discovery.

The Audiology Department at Atrium Health Wake Forest Baptist is part of the Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery and offers comprehensive diagnostic testing and treatment for individuals across the lifespan. Our Winston Salem team includes 17 audiologists who are committed to providing quality, family-centered care and the use of best practices. We have three audiology locations that our externs have the opportunity to rotate through on a regular basis. 

This is a vestibular focused externship. The vestibular lab operates five days per week and is staffed by three audiologists. The extern will be in the vestibular lab three days per week, with exposure to adult and pediatric audiology the other two days.  The vestibular lab is a comprehensive clinic offering videonystagmography, rotational chair, skull vibration, multi–canal vHIT, ABR, as well as Ocular and Cervical VEMP. We perform canalith repositioning for all forms of BPPV. We work closely with three neuro-otologists and a staff of specialty trained Physician Assistants. There is a heavy educational component as we train residents, medical students, and physician assistant students.

We are following the application timeline proposed by the Audiology Clinical Education Network (https://audclinicaled.net/timeline/):

• Application deadline: September 17, 2025
• Virtual Interviews: October 3, 2025

Please e-mail your letter of intent, resume, 3 letters of recommendation, and graduate school transcripts to Elaine Orcutt, AuD (martha.orcutt@advocatehealth.org) and Sam Brown, AuD (samuel.brown@advocatehealth.org).  In the subject line, please specify that you are applying for the vestibular externship. 

We will be hosting virtual open houses for potential students on the following dates with the link below: 

Tuesday, August 26th at 7pm EST or Thursday, September 4th at 7pm EST: 

Thank you for your interest in our externship program. If you are interested in applying for our general audiology externship, please see the other post! We look forward to reviewing your application!