… placements into three years rather than four. One consequence of this approach is less overall clinical training time for the students, but our collaboration with … the U.S. Several of our local institutions engage in hearing science and related areas of research,” Pittman said. “So, we have local experts that we could never get … when more AuD programs are desperately needed,” she said. Abigail Wenner, AuD '26, spent her undergraduate years in a rural area, where the patient population was …