Audiology Short Courses / Course details

Learners will participate to identify and discuss about the common (and less common) areas causing uncertainty in paediatric audiology 

To explore the challenges of managing and communicating uncertainty regarding assessment and management of childhood hearing loss 

Students’ learning for the taught element of this course unit is a combination of online face to face sessions and online resources and material.  

Students will also work through a small series of case studies with incomplete or uncertain aspects of key audiological information.  Students will explore and identify approaches to manage, describe and minimize the impact of these barriers.    

Formative assessment:

1000-word summary of mitigations to address uncertainties from the case studies 

The final summative assignment is:

Development of a care plan for a child at a period of heightened change.  The students can select one of 3 case examples, each with a different period of change to explore; initial diagnosis at the neonatal period, OME in primary school, transition to adult care.     

Learning Hours:

• Demonstrate systematic understanding of literature related to the theoretical frameworks for managing uncertainty in healthcare
• Make links between the evidence and implications for clinical practice 

• Show critical awareness undertaking analysis of complex, incomplete or contradictory areas of knowledge communicating the outcome effectively both to expert audiences and public 

• Operate in complex and specialised contexts
• Show ability to exercise initiative and personal responsibility in professional practice  

• Effectively work with a group as leader or member  
• Use full range of learning resources  
• Reflective on own practice
• Able to competently undertake research tasks with minimum guidance; be an independent and self-critical learner, guiding the learning of others  
• Engage confidently in academic and professional communication with others, reporting on action clearly, autonomously and competently  
• Show good problem-solving skills 

Feedback will be provided

• Han PK, Klein WM, Arora NK. Varieties of uncertainty in health care: a conceptual taxonomy. Med Decis Making. 2011 Nov-Dec;31(6):828-38. doi: 10.1177/0272989x11393976. PMID: 22067431; PMCID: PMC3146626.
• BAA: Uncertainty of measurement 2022 https://www.baaudiology.org/app/uploads/2022/03/UoM-BAA-doc-for-public-consultation-v1.1.pdf