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| 2. | Description |
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| 2.1 | Aims |
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- equip you with the basic knowledge and understanding required to provide a clinical audiovestibular assessment service or to pursue research in a related field.
- enable you to apply your practical and theoretical knowledge and comprehension as a clinical scientist to all aspects of the audiovestibular assessment of patients of all ages.
- enable you to develop skills to critically evaluate and analyse information from the relevant scientific literature.
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| 2.2 | Objectives (teaching) |
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The objectives of this module are to:
- give you knowledge of a range of audiovestibular test techniques, both objective and behavioural.
- enable you to understand when to apply such techniques and to interpret the results.
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| 2.3 | Objectives (planned learning outcomes) |
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| | Knowledge and understanding |
| Having successfully completed the module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding in the following areas:
- the assessment of an individual patient's hearing and vestibular status using a range of test techniques.
- the ability to interpret the test results in the light of other factors such as the patient's history, and to assess and analyse those results in terms of the implications for pathology, impairment and future management.
- evaluation and synthesis of information from the evidence base relating to the above techniques.
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| | Cognitive (thinking) skills |
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Having successfully completed the module, you will be able to:
- synthesise all the relevant information you have obtained about each individual patient and, with reference to the evidence base, form an opinion about site of lesion and appropriate management.
- recognise the range of audiovestibular deficits in a clinical population.
evaluate the appropriateness of specific tests for use with patients with audiovestibular disorders |
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| | Practical, subject-specific skills |
| Having successfully completed the module, you will be able to:
- perform a wide range of test techniques designed to assess audiovestibular status.
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| | Key transferable skills |
| Having successfully completed the module, you will have skills in:
- patient handling, patient management and communication.
- the use of technical apparatus including computer based procedures.
- managing patient records and report writing.
- synthesis of information from different areas.
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| 2.4 | Teaching and Learning Activities |
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| | Teaching methods include |
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| - 2.25 hours lectures a week in formal classroom setting. Typical class size is 16-20 students
- you will need to work in your own time and in time-tabled independent learning sessions to supplement lectures and practical skills by researching and evaluating the evidence base contained in journals and recommended texts. In addition to the information resources available to you, you will be able to go to the module co-ordinators for assistance.
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| | Learning activities include |
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| - working on a formal assignments which are designed to give practice in interpretation of some of the more complex test techniques
- you are expected to read supporting texts and a booklist is provided.
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| 2.5 | Methods of Assessment (summative assessment) |
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| 2.6 | Feedback to students during module study (formative assessment) |
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| - tutorial assistance from module co-ordinators as required. Co-ordinators adopt an “open door” policy.
- previous examination papers with guidelines to answers are made available.
- ad hoc question and answer sessions and topic tests during lectures.
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| 2.7 | Relationship between the teaching, learning and assessment methods |
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| - the examination tests your knowledge and understanding of the procedures and techniques relating to audiovestibular assessment. The exam comprises 8 compulsory questions. A final question is a longer scenario question which assesses your ability to integrate test results with other sources of information.
- the assignments help you develop interpretative skills
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| 3. | TOPICS COVERED |
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| - Audiovestibular assessment and diagnostic strategy
- Principles of signal analysis for audiovestibular assessment
- Pure tone audiometry: methodology, air and bone conduction, masking
- Non organic hearing loss
- Medicolegal assessment of hearing
- Middle ear measurement: tympanometry, acoustic reflex testing
- Oto-acoustic emissions
- Principles of auditory electrophysiology
- Techniques in auditory electrophysiology: electrocochleography, auditory brainstem response (threshold & otoneurological), cortical
- Vertigo, equilibrium and posture
- Oculomotor function and the vestibulo-ocular reflex
- Positional and positioning tests
- Spontaneous nystagmus
- Caloric testing
- Clinical assessment of postural control
- Integration of diagnostic findings
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| 4. | RESOURCES |
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| | Core Texts |
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AUTHORS |
TITLE/EDITION/DATE |
PUBLISHER |
UNI. LIB Class Mark |
E.J. Richards Library |
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| 1. | | BSA Recommended
Procedures |
British Society of Audiology | |
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| 2. | S Abramovich | Electric Response Audiometry in Clinical Practice (1990) |
Churchill Livingstone,
London
ISBN 0443038848 | |
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| 3. | J W Hall | Handbook of Auditory
Evoked Responses (1992) |
Allyn & Bacon, Boston
ISBN 0205135668 | WV272 HAL
1 copy |
1 copy |
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| 4. | J Jacobson (ed) | The Auditory Brainstem Response (1985) |
Taylor & Francis,
London
ISBN 0850665043 | WV252 JAC
1 copy |
1 copy |
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| 5. | L J Hood | Clinical Applications of the Auditory Brainstem Response
(1998) |
Singular Publishing
ISBN 1565932005 | WL300 HOO
1 copy |
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| 6. | P F King
R R A Coles
M E Lutman
D W Robinson | Assessment of Hearing Disability: Guidance for Medicolegal Practice (1992) |
Whurr, London
ISBN 1870332040 | |
1 copy |
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| 7. | M C Martin (ed) | Speech Audiometry
2nd edn (1997) |
Whurr, London
ISBN 1897635125 | WV272
1 copy |
1 copy
(short loan) |
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| 8. | M C Martin (ed) | Speech Audiometry
1st edn (1987) |
Taylor & Francis
ISBN 0850666384 | WV272 MAR
1 copy |
1 copy |
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| 9. | M Robinette &
T Glattke | Otoacoustic Emissions: Clinical Applications First edition (1997) |
Thieme
ISBN 3131037113 | TK7882.H3
ROB
2 copies |
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| 10. | M Robinette &
T Glattke | Otoacoustic Emissions: Clinical Applications
Second edition (2002) |
Thieme
ISBN 0865779732 | |
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| 11. | C I Berlin | Otoacoustic Emissions: Basic Science for Clinical Applications (1998) |
Singular Publishing
ISBN 1565939751 | WV250BER
1 copy |
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| 12. | J Hall | Handbook of Otoacoustic Emissions (2000) |
Singular Publishing
ISBN 1565938739 | TK7882.H3 HAL
1 copy |
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Secondary Texts |
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AUTHORS |
TITLE/EDITION/DATE |
PUBLISHER |
UNI. LIB Class Mark |
E.J. Richards Library |
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G P Jacobson
C W Newman
J M Kartush (eds) | Handbook of Balance Function Testing (1997) |
Singular Publishing
ISBN 1565939077 | WV255 JAC
1 copy
(1 wk) |
2 copies |
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Goebel J | Practical Management of the Dizzy Patient (2001) |
Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
ISBN 078171821 |
WV255 GOE
2 copies |
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R Leigh & D Zee | The Neurology of Eye Movements (1999) |
Oxford University Press, New York
ISBN 0195129741 | |
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J Katz | Handbook of Clinical Audiology
5th edn (2001) |
Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore
ISBN 0683307657 | WV270 KAT
2 copies
(1 wk) |
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J Katz | Handbook of Clinical Audiology
4th edn (1994) |
ISBN 0683045482 | WV270 KAT
2 copies |
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J Katz | Handbook of Clinical Audiology
3rd edn (1985) |
ISBN 0683045490 | WV270 KAT
1 copy |
3 copies
(1 ref only) |
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J Katz | Handbook of Clinical Audiology
2nd edn (1978) |
ISBN 0693045504 | WV270
3 copies |
2 copies |
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| 8. |
J Katz | Handbook of Clinical Audiology
1st edn (1972) |
| WV270
1 copy |
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S A Gelfand | Hearing. An introduction to Psychological and Physiological Acoustics 3rd edn (1998) |
Marcel Dekker New York 0824701437 | WV270 GEL
3 copies |
1 copy |
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| 10. |
J Hall & G Mueller | Audiologists' Desk Reference vol 1 (1997) |
Singular Publishing
ISBN 1565932692 | |
Copies |
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| 11. |
D Stephens (ed) | Scott Brown's Otolaryngology Vol 2 Adult Audiology 5th edn (1987) |
Butterworths
ISBN 0407005129 | WV 100 KER
1 copy |
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D Stephens (ed) | Scott Brown's Otolaryngology Vol 2 Adult Audiology 6th edn (1997) |
Butterworths
ISBN 0750605960 | WV100 KER
1 copy |
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| | Other library support |
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| The ISVR’s E.J. Richards Library houses some relevant journals. | |
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| | Staff required |
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| As well as the co-ordinator, who leads on curriculum design and organisation, a further five lecturers from within the Hearing and Balance Centre contribute to module delivery, setting and marking of exam questions and support to students. | |
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| | Teaching space, layout and equipment required |
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| A lecture room with 30 seats is required for 2.25 hours a week. The room should be equipped with overhead and slide projection facilities, and blackboard and/or whiteboard. The regular use of a data projector is required. The lecture room is suitable for hearing impaired students | |
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| | Laboratory space required |
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| None. | |
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| | Computer requirements |
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| Use of dedicated computer room (in ISVR) for students is required for independent learning and for the completion of the assignment. | |
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| | Software requirements |
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| Microsoft office, SPSS and access to on line journals and web pages | |
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| | Off-campus activities |
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| None. | |
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| | Part-time/distance learning students |
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| Provision is made for part-time students. | |
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