Educational programme of Audiology and Phoniatrics in the Czech Republic
Minimal qualifications for specialisation:
- 72 months ENT (but we would prefer “only” 36 months as earlier)
- additional 24 months on site working experience in phoniatrics (under supervision of tutor at a fully equipped professional facility)
- 1 month neurology incl. paediatric-neurology
- 1 month clinical logopedics
- 2 weeks psychiatry incl. paediatric psychiatry
- 6 weeks practice in the Phoniatric Dept. in Prague (in-patient and out-patient departments)
Recommended:
- 2 weeks of plastic surgery
- 2 weeks of orthodontia
Logbook (60 different procedures, performed between 10 to 150 times)
- Voice: videolaryngostroboscopy, videokymography, pneumography, voice-range-profile, laryngeal electromyography, voice-analysis evaluation, voice-therapy (reeducation) after partial or total laryngectomy, pharyngeal voice, functional voice disorders treatment, phonosurgery (theoretical)
- Speech-language: articulation evaluation, examination and rehabilitation of aphasias, dysarthrias, cleft palate, fluency disorders; evaluation of speech-language development (semantics, syntax, phonology and phonetics) in children
- Hearing: examination of hearing in childhood, ERA, CERA, SSEP, OAE, pure tone audiometry, speech audiometry, central auditory tests, supra-threshold tests, vestibular exam., indication and fitting of hearing aids for babies, toddlers, school-age children, hearing aids operations, preparing of earmoulds, real-ear-measurement, follow up after HA prescription, bone-conducted hearing aids (BAHA), lip-reading tests, cochlear implantation indication and rehabilitation
- Deglutition: examination, rehabilitation, videofluorography,
Examination for specialisation /fellowship examination//:
Pre-examinational test: Hearing aids and audiology
Independent study publication
Practical examination
3 theoretical tasks (voice, hearing, speech)