Work-based content
Competencies
| # | Learning outcome | Competency | Action |
|---|---|---|---|
| # 1 | Learning outcome 1 |
Competency
Review the evidence base and use your findings to identify the proportion of the UK population who experience hearing, tinnitus or balance disorders by age, gender and other sociodemographic measures and predict how this is likely to change over the next 20 years |
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| # 2 | Learning outcome 1 |
Competency
Use a range of IT systems to undertake a literature review, data storage, statistical analysis, referencing and report writing |
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| # 3 | Learning outcome 2 |
Competency
Undertake a literature review and design a screening programme to improve public health related to hearing/balance/tinnitus |
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| # 4 | Learning outcome 2 |
Competency
Undertake an audit of a relevant screening programme, write a report and make recommendations for the implementation and evaluation of the programme |
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| # 5 | Learning outcome 3 |
Competency
Assist at a specialised rehabilitation clinic/session that supports patients with tinnitus or balance disorders to change their lifestyle as part of a management strategy |
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| # 6 | Learning outcome 3 |
Competency
Observe a number of acute or community-based screening programmes across a number of different specialties |
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Assessments
You must complete:
- 3 case-based discussion(s)
- 2 of the following DOPS/ OCEs:
| Report on the prevelence and incidence of hearing, tinnitus and balance disorder | DOPS |
| Prepare a presentation about the impact of disability on opportunities for employment | DOPS |
| Explain the epidemiology/research evidence about their condition to a child and his/her family | OCE |
| Explain the functional impact of acquired hearing loss on communication to the family of a patient | OCE |
| Explain the epidemiology/research evidence about their condition to an adult patient | OCE |
| Explain the epidemiology/research evidence about hearing balance/disorders and their demographic characteristics | OCE |
| Give a presentation to colleagues/in a School etc about the principles of health education and screening to improve public health related to hearing/balance/tinnitus | OCE |
| Give a presentation to colleagues in the hospital about how disorders of hearing, tinnitus and balance could be prevented | OCE |
Learning outcomes
- Perform the range of methodologies, including statistical analysis, used in epidemiology to identify the prevalence and incidence of hearing, tinnitus and balance disorders and their relationship to relation to demographic characteristics
- Design a screening protocol that could be used in a community setting such as a GP practice, write a proposal that includes the implementation, evaluation and cost benefit of the programme and the potential patient benefit from the programme
- Undertake a rehabilitation session, under supervision, for example with a hearing therapist, to support patients through the behavioural change process and provide evidence-based advice