Over the past two weeks Gareth Wyn- Jones and I have been working with the 2nd and 3rd year Audiology students role playing a range of scenarios to support their communication and clinical development. We always enjoy this work as the students really appreciate the opportunity to test their knowledge and skills and even when they don’t do as well as they had hoped they always reflect on the experience in a positive way and see the benefit of the experience.
“Although I didn’t do so well the other day it really helped me see I was being too clinical and I have done so much better since. Thank you it was really valuable” (2nd year student)
We hope that there will be the funding to support this work next year as it one of our most enjoyable and worthwhile collaborations.
We have been looking at the initial consultation, the follow up appointment and explaining the fitting of a hearing aid to a new patient. A couple of students also actually tested our ears; I am pleased to say that we both have good hearing (despite Gareth’s many visits to rock concerts over the years and my constant chatting on my mobile phone!! Actually both of these were picked up in the results but neither brought our levels below the threshold of normal hearing.) At the beginning of the Year 1 sessions we saw for the first time the training video we filmed for the department last year including how it was incorporated within class based teaching by Sarah and Emma. We are filming some more scenarios later in the month. More of that later.