Higher Education in Audiology

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• Higher Education in Audiology
• The Situation in Malta

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Medical doctor

• One University, where doctors obtain their
  primary medical degree, but for a long time
  post-graduate Medical Education was obtained from
  Institutions overseas (mainly U.K. but also other
  countries in Europe and the U.S.).
• Recent move by the Specialist Accreditation
  Committee and incentives by the Department of
  Health to start programmes for Higher Specialist
  training (catalyst joining the European Union in
  2004).
• Curriculum for higher specialist training in
  Otolaryngology presented to Specialist
  Accreditation Committee and UEMS last October.
• The Health Care Professions Act(2003), lists
  Audiology as one of the specialities to be
  included in the Medical Specialist Register.
• Two doctors with degrees in Audiological Medicine
  are appointed to hold Audiology Clinics in the
  Audiology Outpatients Section (part of the ENT
  Department).

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Paramedical staff

• The University of Malta offers a 4 year BSc
  Degree in Communication Therapy but no similar
  degree in Audiology.
• The Health Care Professions Act(2003), does not
  list Technical Audiologist or any other Audiology
  profession under Professions Complimentary to
  Medicine (whereas Speech and Language pathologist
  is in the list), but this is likely to be amended
  in the near future.
• Two paramedical audiologists who obtained their
  qualifications from the U.K. work in the
  Audiology Outpatients Section.