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Auditory Science – (M.Sc.)
De Montfort University
Health and Life Sciences| Annual Tuition Fee: | ≈ € 4,260 - ≈ € 10,660 (non-EEA) | ||
| Location: | Leicester / United Kingdom / View location on map ▾ Hide location on map ▴ | ||
| Duration: | 36 months | Start Date: | October |
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| Languages: | English | ||
Location of De Montfort University
This course is not running as a full-time programme for September 2011 intake. Please contact us for further information.
* It provides professionals with an enhanced portfolio of skills, with study designed around a work-based schedule
* It has been designed in conjunction with local managers to represent current working practice
* It will increase your career opportunities for progression within the Health Service
* It will allow you to interact with other professionals enhancing learning and study techniques
Career opportunities
This course will enable qualified audiologists to enhance their opportunities for progression both within the public and independent sectors. Graduates from this course have progressed into senior posts in the NHS and private healthcare, and now work in roles such as chief or senior audiologists.
The course has been developed in conjunction with the local health trusts and service providers who welcome and support this initiative. It will assist managers and staff to meet their objectives in relation to Agenda for Change.
Teaching/assessment
The MSc requires three years' part-time study with 60 credits studied each year to give a total credit value of 180 credits.
The course uses a combination of lectures, seminars, workshops, visiting speakers and self-directed study. Assessment is through methods including unseen exams, essays, presentations, evaluation of published research, poster presentations, dissertation etc, to ensure progressive learning, acquisition of knowledge and its application to clinical practice.
Contents
The aim of this course is to provide professionals with an enhanced portfolio of skills relevant to their work as audiologists within the context of a developing inter-professional education agenda. Several other cohorts of students also take the modules from a health service background, and inter-professional discussion is encouraged, to ensure that topics are examined from a range of perspectives.
The course provides a challenging balance between the development of core skills in leadership and management, with the ability to update knowledge in specialist areas of auditory science such as paediatric audiology, vestibular science, auditory rehabilitation and electrophysiological measurements, as well as the development of research skills. These culminate in a dissertation on a topic of your choosing linked to your specialist area of practice or interest. This will give you the opportunity to advance your knowledge of a specialist area pertinent to your work. By the end of the course you will be more knowledgeable and confident in your approach to the problems and issues you encounter in your day-today working life. You should expect to study modules including:
First year:
* Research Designs in Health aims to give students a thorough grounding in both the technical and socio-political processes of research
* Strategic Leadership and Effective Management encourages you to critically review various facets of strategic leadership, effective management and quality initiatives in respect to healthcare provision Evidence-Based Practice helps you to search for and evaluate published research on diagnosis, prognosis and treatment efficacy.
Second year:
* Auditory Science deals with the specialist techniques employed in audiology.
Plus, two of the following:
* Management of severe and profound deafness underpins the theoretical and scientific aspects in the management of patients who experience severe and profound deafness
* Vestibular Science deals with the assessment and rehabilitation of patients suffering for imbalance and dizziness
* Paediatric Audiology encompasses paediatric auditory assessment and (re)habilitation
* Specialist Science Practice is a self designed module (in conjunction with the Programme Leader) dealing with specialist topics in Audiology.
Third year:
Dissertation.
IELTS
You are normally required to take an English Proficiency Test.
Most European Universities recognise the IELTS test.
Take testRequirements
Relevant audiological skills and experience, plus one of the following:
* A degree in Audiology or Clinical Physiology (specialisation in Audiology) plus relevant professional experience or undertaking the Higher Certificate in Audiology or
* Registered Audiologists with at least one year's post-registration professional experience and relevant Higher Education qualification or
* Registered Hearing Aid Audiologists with at least two years' post-registration experience and relevant Higher Education qualification or
* University or research applicants who work in an audiology or related field
Additional Requirements
| Minimal degree required: | Bachelor's degree |
| Minimal amount of work experience | Not specified |
Language Proficiency
| IELTS Band: | 6.0 |
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