Clinical Audiology

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Explain and critically evaluate the application of person-centred care and evidence-based practice in clinical audiology to a range of scenarios as well as the factors influencing its effectiveness, including the principles of joint identifying individual need, shared decision making, joint goal setting and supporting self-management, the application of various counselling approaches and the psychological factors that may influence patients’ engagement in, and success with, the rehabilitation process.
• Demonstrate readiness for clinical placement by showing basic competence in several audiological assessment and rehabilitative techniques with non-clinical populations and clinically realistic scenarios with respect to profession and technical standards, including showing effective patient-centred communication and care, effective and safe technical and manual skills, professionalism, decision-making and problem-solving skills, and identifying the need for onward referral.
• Demonstrate effective clinical reasoning skills in adult audiological assessment, including during the planning of assessment strategy, carrying out the assessment procedure, critically evaluating assessment results and determining what further action is needed. It involves reference to appropriate evidence, including clinical guidance and research studies.
• Describe the epidemiology and pathophysiology of a range of disorders affecting the auditory system as well as their medical diagnosis and medical and surgical treatment options
• Demonstrate mastery of effective self-directed learning and scientific communication.
• Explain and critically evaluate the theoretical basis, clinical context and clinical application of a range of standard audiology techniques for the assessment of the ear and hearing for adults with reference to the evidence base and relevant profession and technical standards.

Clinical science >Types of hearing loss >Pathologies of the external, middle and inner ears, their differential diagnosis and their medical/surgical treatments >The direct clinical examination of the ear >The principles and underpinning techniques of the clinical assessment of the auditory system via air and bone-conduction and associated challenges (including cross-hearing and sources of noise) >Subjective assessment of hearing in adults (including applied aspects of psychoacoustics) >Objective assessment of the middle and inner ears, auditory nerve and central auditory processes of adults Clinical application >Professional and technical standards (including British Society of Audiology recommended procedures and guidelines, including onward referral; British Academy of Audiology guidelines and international standards for calibration) >Deaf awareness training (including recognising and understanding the impact of hearing loss, communication tactics, deaf community and culture) >Person-centred communication and interviewing > Debriefing results >Individual management plans >Pure-tone audiometry with and without masking >Tympanometry and acoustic reflex testing >Otoacoustic emissions and auditory brainstem evoked responses >Aural impression taking >Hearing aid testing in test box >Hearing aid prescription, programming and fitting >Real-ear measurement Clinical integration >The integration of assessment results to identify hearing loss, to establish the magnitude of the hearing loss, the site of lesion and the impact on the patient’s life, and to guide management >The application of person-centred care and evidence-based practice in clinical audiology to a range of scenarios as well as the factors influencing its effectiveness Clinical practice (pre-clinical skills you will learn on-campus) >Person-centred communication >Otoscopy >Pure-tone audiometry with and without masking >Tympanometry and acoustic reflex testing >Aural impression taking >Real-ear measurement >Rehabilitative techniques Placement preparation > Expectations of you, your placement provider, the University and other relevant parties during your placement, such as described in the placement handbook, available from www.southampton.ac.uk/engineering/audiology-placements.page > The professional expectations of you during placement, including fitness to practice and the expectations of your professional body (standards, conduct, performance and ethics) > The policies and procedures governing placement, the placement processes and how you will be supported, trained and assessed on placement > Professional registration and regulation in the UK (legislation, risk assessment and risk management), consumer protection legislation and regulation

Teaching methods include: • Flipped learning • Tutorials, including discussion of ethnographic videos to support your learning of patient-centered communication • Individual and group work on formative tasks • Practical sessions for clinical skills (small group work with one tutor per group) • Demonstrations • Observations of clinical practice, if available

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.