Clinical Training in Audiology I

The student should know how to apply the different audiological techniques: Tonal Audiogram, Vocal Audiogram, Impedanciometry, Auditory Evoked Potentials, VNG, Myogenic Potentials, vHIT, diagnostic and repositioning maneuvers for BPPV, among others, in the different contexts inherent to the internship sites.

Contact with the different audiological techniques with the observation and realization of exams according to the area of Audiology in which you are developing your learning internship.

The student should have contact observing and performing the techniques of one of the internship areas :
– Campaigns of Audiology Awareness and Screening within the community;
– Children’s Audiology;
– Aural Rehabilitation;
– Audiology diagnostic and changes in hearing;
– Audiology diagnostic and Rehabilitation of balance disorders;
The student should also be able to apply the acquired knowledge and correlate the results with the clinical context.

Undertaking of exams/tests within the area students are performing their internship according to the proposed goals of the curricular unit.

According to the Academic Regulations for the degree in Audiology, the final assessment of the curricular unit comprises a continuous assessment (AC) and a summative assessment (AS):

- The final continuous classification will be the average of the classifications obtained, not rounded, in the different internship periods.

- Summative assessment comprises a practical assessment at the end of the academic year.

The final classification results from the application of the following formula: Final Classification Stage = (2AC+AS)/3

Failure to obtain a score of 9.5 in a given internship location implies the repetition of the internship in the same or an equivalent place.

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