Build your career in healthcare by studying UCL's Audiology BSc course. Audiologists work in clinical settings and help diagnose, treat, and manage a variety of hearing and balance-related conditions. By studying the Audiology BSc you will gain the necessary skills and knowledge to work as a qualified audiologist. Audiologists can work in a variety of roles in the commercial sector or the NHS. The Audiology BSc is a three-year course that aims to train students to join the healthcare workforce as audiologists. Upon successful completion of the course, it is anticipated that students will be able to graduate into a rewarding and dynamic career as an audiologist, with many transferable skills and future training offering further career development. The course includes a total of 31 weeks of clinical placement. The distribution of these 31 weeks through the course depends in part on placement providers, but we have given an indication of what to expect below. Please note that clinical placement attendance is a mandatory part of the course. Due to the clinical demands of the course, you may be required to attend clinical placements, or on-campus clinical skills teaching and assessments, outside of normal term-time teaching periods. Also, please note that practical skills labs and clinical placements may be subject to change and are under continuous review. The first year will provide you with a full grounding in the science that underpins healthcare and audiology. You will learn about hearing loss in adults and how it can be managed or treated. From the first year of your course, you will benefit from specialist clinical training in our state-of-the-art Clinical Skills Lab. This will give you access to industry-standard equipment to learn how to carry out clinical procedures such as hearing tests and using an otoscope to conduct ear examinations. You will spend up to a week observing a range of audiology procedures being carried out on patients in some of London’s top audiology clinics.
In your second year, you will study the diagnosis and management of hearing loss in adults in further detail, including how to fit and program hearing aids. You will become familiar with a range of modern hearing technology. You will learn about hearing loss in children, tinnitus, and balance disorders. In parallel to your clinical studies, you will study research methods and data analysis techniques, and choose a research project topic for your final year (similar to a dissertation in other courses). You will develop your clinical and communication skills with more advanced module teaching and complete a 6-10-week clinical placement at an audiology clinic. The clinical placements are some of the most rewarding parts of your course, where you will begin to use your clinical skills and knowledge with real patients and see how audiologists make measurable improvements to patients’ lives. In your final year, you will complete your research project and choose from a range of audiology topics to develop your knowledge in areas that interest you. You will continue to develop yourself as a competent and confident clinician by learning about professional practice and undertaking a 20-24-week clinical placement to prepare you for working professionally as an audiologist.
Total Tuition Fees: £89,400
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