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Situation of Audiology
This page contains
bits of information about the situation of audiology in several countries.
Denmark
| Ture
Andersen, University of Southern Denmark (SDU) and Audiological Clinic,
University Hospital, Odense |
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The
educational program of Audiology is described here: http://www.sdu.dk/Uddannelse/Uddannelsesoversigt/Bachelor/Audiologi.aspx
(In Danish). From September 2008 a M.Sc. education in Technical
Audiology will start as a continuation of the Bachelor education.
The Engineering Acoustics MSc program (described here)
will be part of the collaboration between SDU (University of Southern
Denmark) in Odense and DTU (Technical University of Denmark) in
Lyngby.
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| Torben
Poulsen, Acoustic Technology, Technical University of Denmark (DTU) |
At Acoustic
Technology we will collaborate with SDU on the audiology education,
especially on Masters' projects and possible PhD-projects. We also
have some contact to the education at University of Copenhagen. See
http://audiologopaedi.ku.dk/
and http://studier.ku.dk/studier_a-z/audiologopaedi/
(both sites in Danish). This education is more language/speech related
than technical.
The Engineering Acoustics MSc program (described here)
will be part of the collaboration between SDU (University of Southern
Denmark) in Odense and DTU (Technical University of Denmark) in Lyngby.
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Serbia
| Branka
Mikic |
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There
are basically two types of university degrees in audiology. The
first one is audiological physician, which are medical doctors with
four years of specialization in otorhinolaryngology followed by
two years of postgraduate studies in audiology. The curriculum is
medically orientated with additional information on acoustics, hearing
aids and cochlear implants as well as rehabilitation of hearing
impaired people. There are 35-40 audiologist in Serbia (7 million
population).
The other type of education is four and a half year study of surdoaudiology
in the Faculty of special education and rehabilitation. During the
studies they get medical, technical and pedagogical knowledge so
that they can become clinical audiologist involved in audiological
diagnostic procedures, fitting of hearing aids and cochlear implants,
rehabilitation of hearing impaired children and teaching in schools
for deaf. There 25-30 students enrolling in such studies each year.
Both
programs in audiology are organized in Belgrade, by Belgrade State
and
University. Audiological physicians are educated in Medical faculty.
The postgraduate studies take two years for ENT specialists. Precise
curriculum is under reconstruction at the moment.The web address
of the Medical faculty of Belgrade University is http://www.mef.bg.ac.yu.
Surdoaudiologist are educated in undergraduate studies in Faculty
of Special Education and Rehabilitation. Its website is http://www.fasper.bg.ac.yu.
The program takes nine semesters (4,5 years). Curriculum details
could be obtained from the website.
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Slowenia
| Jagoda
Votovec |
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audiology dept. in Ljubljana, Slovenija, is interested in University
education in audiology but at the moment in our country there is a
"transition period" in health system and institutions and
we could not get the agreement to participate. |
Sweden
| Inger
Uhlén |
Audiology
is a separate medical speciality in Sweden. With new regulations from
2006 You first have to become specialist in ENT. This is not a big
problem since most specialists in Audiology are also specialists in
ENT and work in a ENT department. There are separate departments in
Audiology in some of the big university hospitals.
There is no formal education to become an Audiology physician. Clinical
training in an Audiology department, ENT department and also some
other fields like neurology, neurosurgery, neurophysiology, pediatry
etc is performed under surveillance. One week courses in medical and
technical audiology, vestibular disorders and pediatric audiology
are given on a national basis.
Audiology ingeneers have a similar situation. Only audiology technicians
(audiologists) have a formal 3-year education. There is a need for
more education in all fields of audiology (acoustics, medicine, genetics,
technology, child development,
electrophysiology etc) for physicians in audiology. Sweden is too
small to provide enough education for the small group of young new
specialists. Cooperation across borders and between professions in
audiology is necessary. |
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