Qualifications:

Any graduate student who is:

• 1. Accepted (unprovisionally) into the graduate program (Au.D., Ph.D.) in Audiology
  2. Registered as a full-time student the semesters for which they request a graduate assistantship
  3. Not participating in the 4th year externship or another extended research experience during the semester for which they request a graduate assistantship
  4. Capable of fulfilling the qualifications and duties described in job descriptions listed below

Selection Criteria:

Priority will be given to applicants with:

• 1. Competency in oral and written communication
  2. Clerical keyboarding and computer/software skills
  3. Leadership/organizational skills
  4. Desire to work clinically with balance disorder patients

Job Description

Duties include,but are not limited to:

• 1. Assisting with data collection
  2. Coding data
  3. Using a computer for data entry or coding
  4. Maintaining Balance Lab data base
  5. Completing library searches
  6. Photocopying or collating needed research materials and references
  7. Proof-reading drafts of surveys, manuscripts, letters, and making phone calls to subjects or project collaborators
  8. Help with patient education in-services
  9. Updating inventory by ordering supplies for the balance lab
  10. Performing balance equipment calibration checks

Benefits

Graduate Assistants are generally awarded a tuition waiver for each semester they are employed. In addition, a monthly stipend is awarded for the duration of their employment as a GA from August to May (no work is expected in the summer term). The actual amount of the stipend is determined each year on the basis of available budgets. Graduate assistants will be provided with a desk and computer in the Barkley Center Balance and Vestibular Lab.