TIROCINIO - I ANNO

Develop communication and relationship skills oriented both to listening to the hearing impaired patient and caregivers and to a synergistic multidisciplinary team work. Knowing how to perform the main audiometric tests aimed at defining the dynamic auditory field. Classification of hearing loss according to WHO and BIAP standards.

Individual internship activities to be carried out at: Outpatient clinics of the ENT clinic of the "Vittorio Emanuele" University Hospital - Department of Medical, Surgical and Advanced Technologies "G. F. Ingrassia "- University of Catania.

Execution of the main audiometric tests, with and without masking, aimed at defining the patient's auditory dynamic field: otoscopic examination, impedance test, Metz test, Anderson test, liminal tonal audiometric examination (HTL and UCL), supraliminal tonal audiometric tests,

The performance of the practical activity must be assisted by the study of the main Italian reference texts in the audiological field:
M. Maurizi - Clinical audiovestibology, 2nd edition - Idelson-Gnocchi, Naples, 2000;
S. Prosser - Audiology Topics - Omega, Turin, 2013;
S. Prosser - Audiometry & Psychoacoustics - Cleup, Padua, 2017;
R. Albera, O. Schindler - Audiology and Phoniatry - Minerva Medica, Turin, 2003.