By Jessica Lewis, Sarah Camera, and J. Riley DeBacker
This article is a part of the July/August 2019, Volume 31, Number 4, Audiology Today issue.
Since the creation of the AuD, many conversations have taken place to evaluate audiology education and the externship, but few of those have included large perspectives from significant stakeholders—students and recent graduates. To address this, the Student Academy of Audiology Education and Externship Survey was disseminated in September 2018 to current graduate students, externs, and new professionals to further investigate areas of strengths and weaknesses in the current education model and the externship process.
With over 1,000 responses from all 75 accredited AuD programs in the United States at that time, this survey successfully captured a meaningful snapshot of contemporary AuD education from a newcomer to these conversations—the student body. Below are the highlights of the main findings and implications of the survey results.
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