Faculty of Medicine READING
Books are recommended for each subject in the course and a list is available in the Department.
Diplomas acoustic, sound fields and noise, the measurement of sound and psychoacoustics.
EXAMINATION One 2-hour paper and assessment during the course.
577-865. ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY
Approximately 26 hours of lectures and some demonstrations.
The examination may Include questions relating to the anatomy of the ear, the histology and ultrastructure of the Inner ear, middle ear function, cochlear physiology, psychoacoustics, vestibular neuroanatomy, auditory and vestibular neurophysiology.
EXAMINATION One 2-hour paper and assessment during the course.
431-861. BIOPHYSICS
Approximately 26 hours of lectures and practical work with some additional demonstrations.
The examination may Include questions relating to instrumentation, electroacoustical transducers, basic electronics, electrical safety, data acquisition and processing in biology.
EXAMINATION One 2-hour paper and assessment during the course.
577-866. PSYCHOLOGY
Approximately 30 hours of lectures and a programmed course on quan- titative methods. The course will provide an overview of, afd concen- trate on, the broad areas of cognitive development, personality, neuro- psychology, psychophysics and the rehabilitative counselling of the sensori ly-deprived.
EXAMINATION One 1-hour paper, one 1%-hour paper, one 2-hour paper and assessment during the course.
CLINICAL SCIENCES 577-862. AUDIOLOGY
This subject has seven units. The course consists of lectures, practical work, clinical work, demonstrations and tutorials. Students also may be required to undertake a small research project or dissertation fir General Audiology and a case study for Paediatric Audiology. The clinical work involves each student in about four half-day clinical sessions per week, although this will very from week to week, depending on the individual student's time-table. Clinics are held at the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, the Royal Children's Hospital, the State Health Department, the National Acoustics Laboratories as well as further sessions at other teaching hospitals. The clinical work is assessed in the units General Audiology and Paediatric Audiology. There will also be some assessment in aural rehabilitation in Aural Rehabilitation.
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Faculty of Medicine
The approximate weighting for each unit in this subject is as follows:
General Audiology 45%, Paediatric Audiology 25%, Aural Rehabilitation 8%, Hearing Aids 7%, Speech and Language 5%, Industrial Audiology 5%, Educational Audiology 5%. Full details will be posted at the start of the year.
EDUCATIONAL AUDIOLOGY
Approximately 20 hours of lectures and includes visits to schools for the deaf and pre-school parent guidance centres.
The examination may include questions relating to psychology of deaf- ness, role of the family, the deaf child at home and at school, parent guidance, auditory training, educational guidance and school place- ment, vocational guidance for the deaf, hearing aids for home and
school, language assessment in the classroom, educational management of the hearing-impaired child, the multiple-handicapped deaf child and sensory approaches to speech and language development.
EXAMINATION One 2-hour paper and assessment during the course.
GENERAL AUDIOLOGY
Approximately 30 hours of lectures, 60 hours of laboratory work, clinical work throughout the year, and a research project or dissertation for which a 5,000-word report is required.
The examination may include questions related to pure tone audiometry, masking, speech audiometry, differential diagnosis of deafness, impe- dance audiometry, non organic hearing loss, evoked response audi- ometry, brain stem audiometry, central auditory problems, history taking and clinical examination, interpretation of results, ethics, psycho acoustics and instrumentation and calibration.
EXAMINATION One 3-hour paper and, during the course, a clinical examination, a viva voce examination and a research report.
AURAL REHABILITATION
Approximately 30 hours of lectures and practical/clinical work in aural rehabilitation.
The examination may include questions relating to the ageing process, hearing aids for the elderly, aural rehabilitation, speech-reading, clinical assessment of the elderly and presbyacusis.
EXAMINATION One 2-hour paper and assessment during the course.
HEARING AIDS
Approximately 20 hours of lectures with clinical work and demonstrations relating to hearing aid selection and counselling.
The examination may include questions relating to the design and operation of hearing aids, hearing aid characteristics, selection and evaluation of hearing aids, binaural listening, hearing aids for home and school, counselling and aural rehabilitation and the rationale for hearing aid fitting.
EXAMINATION One 2-hour paper and assessment during the course.
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Diplomas INDUSTRIAL AUDIOLOGY
Approximately 20 hours of lectures with some practical work.
The examination may include questions relating to instrumentation, noise abatement, hearing conservation programmes, acoustic trauma, hearing handicap, noise and communication and medico-legal aspects.
EXAMINATION One 2-hour paper and assessment during the course.
PAEDIATRIC AUDIOLOGY
Thirty hours of lectures, clinical work through the year and a case study for which a 2,000-word report is required.
The examination may include questions relating to the development of the infant and young child, emotional and social development of children with Impaired hearing, causes of deafness, hearing assessment in In- fants and children, at risk registers, genetics, communication dis- orders and auditory Information processing, mental retardation, cereb- ral palsy, autism and psychoses, central language disorders, psycho- genic deafness, deprivation and the multiply handicapped deaf child.
EXAMINATION One 3-hour paper and, during the course, a clinical examination, and a viva voce examination.
SPEECH AND LANGUAGE
Twenty hours of lectures. The examination may include questions relat- ing to anatomy, physiology, pathology of the vocal tract, acoustic phonetics, linguistics, psycholinguistics, normal speech afd language development, language of the deaf child, speech pathology and rehabilitation.
EXAMINATION One 2-hour paper and assessment during the course.
577-864. OTOLARYNGOLOGY
Twenty hours of lectures with some demonstrations, and clinical work throughout the year.
The examination may include questions relating to pathology of the ear, methods of clinical examination, diseases of the external ear, diseases of the middle ear, diseases of the inner ear, congenital deaf- ness, otoscleriosis, presbyacusis, acoustic neuroma, Maneres Disease, vestibular disorders, otoneurology.
EXAMINATION One 2-hour paper and, during the course, a clinical examination, and a viva voce examination.
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