MSc Audiology Placement (International Students)

Learning Outcomes

Learning Outcomes

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Reflect critically on, and self-motivate learning related to, your practice, your experiences, general practice and professionalism within audiology and health services.
• Critically evaluate clinical practice in the areas covered by the IRCP in terms of underpinning theory and evidence from a range of sources (including fundamental science, clinical studies, systematic reviews, guidelines and standards).
• Demonstrate readiness to start a clinical placement, including demonstrated knowledge and understanding of relevant risk assessment, health & safety, infection prevention, information governance, equality diversity and inclusion, fire safety and preventing radicalisation aspects.
• Demonstrate safe, effective, empathetic, efficient, evidence-based, patient-centred and professional clinical practice in audiology. This requires demonstrating the: (a) competency standards described in the Individual Record of Clinical Practice (IRCP, which includes reference to clinical practice guidance and recommended procedures issued by your professional bodies); (b) standards of conduct, performance and ethics expected by your professional bodies (including the Registration Council of Clinical Physiologists, RCCP, Code of Conduct); (c) expectations of employment in healthcare services (including the principles and values that guide the NHS); (d) local standards and policies expected by your placement provider. These expectations are wide ranging and include the demonstration of knowledge, skills, attitudes and values appropriate to an RCCP-registered Clinical Physiologist (Audiology). Those skills are as also wide ranging and include observational, manual and technical skills, clinical reasoning and problem-solving, communication with the public and other health care professionals, and collaborative working in multidisciplinary teams.
• Explain the scientific principles and clinical practical of specific hearing assessments that go beyond the clinical competencies of the IRCP (include tests for non-organic hearing loss, tests for dead regions and tests of speech intelligibility)
• Demonstrate readiness to seek your first job in audiology in terms of general employability

• Statutory and mandatory skills
• The competency standards covered by this placement as detailed in the Individual Record of Clinical Practice (IRCP)
• Knowledge and understanding of adult assessment and rehabilitation and the professional standards you are obliged to meet
• Reflective practice
• Knowledge and skills for employability
• Knowledge and understanding of more advanced aspects of audiology, including speech-in-noise and dead regions testing

• Observation of clinical practice
• Participating in clinical practice under direct/indirect supervision (see Terms of Placement)
• Receiving feedback on above
• Self-directed study
• Tutorials
• Support from the clinical supervisor
• Formal methods of formative assessment:

o Continuous assessment and feedback via the Individual Record of Clinical Practice (IRCP)

o Evaluations by placement supervisor

o Feedback on drafts of your other summative assessments

• Regular online support from the dedicated Placement Lead and peers throughout placement
• Various online resources
• Statutory and mandatory training
• Tutorials with University Staff regarding more advanced aspects of audiology

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.