The Audiology Service at the Harry S. Truman Memorial Veterans’ Hospital in Columbia, Missouri is offering two 4th year Au.D. externship positions for the 2025-2026 academic year.  A stipend is tentative based on final budget approval.  The position is a 12 month commitment with an anticipated start date of May 2025.  Our main facility is located in Columbia on the campus of the University of Missouri, home of the Mizzou Tigers, and works in coordination with 7 Community Based Outpatient Clinics (CBOCs) providing audiology services throughout a large portion of Missouri.  Columbia possesses a unique blend of metropolitan flair and Midwestern hospitality. The city, located approximately 125 miles from both Kansas City and St. Louis, has a population of 126,000, including 30,000 students from three area colleges. Several publications have rated Columbia as one of the nation's best cities in which to live.

Clinic services include comprehensive audiologic evaluations, amplification including assistive devices, ABR, vestibular evaluations including VEMP and VHIT, cochlear implants, osseointegrated hearing aids, cerumen management, tinnitus management, aural rehabilitation, CAPD evaluations, observation in the ENT clinic and interdisciplinary meetings with ENT and other services.  The extern will also be responsible for providing hearing aid repair services to the short and long-term inpatient populations in the facility’s Community Living Center and coordinating the scheduling of clinic appointments for those veterans as needed.  Additionally, telehealth services are provided.  Additional information is available on the AVAA website at Harry S Truman Memorial Veterans Hospital | My AVAA.

All interested students should send a cover letter, resume, a copy of unofficial transcripts, and at least three signed letters of recommendation including contact information for reference purposes to heather.neudecker@va.gov.  Two letters of recommendation should be from off-campus/non-university affiliated supervisors, if possible.

PLEASE SUBMIT ALL APPLICATION MATERIALS BY Tuesday October 8th.

For additional information or questions please call 573-814-6357 or email heather.neudecker@va.gov.