19th ANNUAL EARLY HEARING DETECTION & INTERVENTION MEETING
March 8-10, 2020 • Kansas City, MO
The Effect of Standardized Patients on Pediatric Clinical Confidence in Audiology Students
The US is facing a shortage of trained pediatric audiologists. LEND programs and Universities are striving to provide evidenced based training for pediatric audiology students. The use of standardized patients (SP) has been used in the medical community and recently has been implemented in some audiology curriculums. The purpose of the project was to measure the effect of SP on audiology student’s clinical confidence when delivering difficult news in a pediatric setting. Sixteen third year doctor of audiology students enrolled in the Counseling in Audiology course and participated in simulated role play scenarios. The roles of the SP included a tearful mother, disputing father, and a guilty mother while the students acted as the audiologist breaking the news to the parent. For each of the scenarios, scripts were created by audiologists to prepare the SP for their role as a parent learning of their child’s newly identified hearing loss. Students were provided with a document containing the case history and results for their case. Pre and post questionnaires were given to the students before and after their SP encounter, as well as again following the completion of the Counseling in Audiology course. In addition, The Audiology Counseling Evaluation (English et al., 2007) was used to evaluate each student’s interaction with the SP. Statistically significant increases were seen in breaking news to a parent in a caring and empathetic manner and giving recommendations and next steps to parents. The mean responses across all scenarios for each self-confidence question revealed a positive trend in the student’s confidence in breaking news in a simulated pediatric audiology setting. This project supports the continued use of implementing SP and this form of experiential learning into audiology counseling education for sharing difficult news of a child’s newly diagnosed hearing loss to parents.
- Give examples of different standardized patient scenarios that can be used to train pediatric audiology students.
- Describe the effect of standardized patients on student’s clinical confidence.
- Describe how to incorporate standardized patients in the curriculum to train pediatric audiology students.
Poster:
21060_12424CaseyWolter.pdf
Presenter: Jon Douglas
Jon C. Douglas, AuD is a clinical audiologist at the University of Wisconsin Doctor of Audiology Program. In addition, Dr. Douglas is the LEND Audiology Clinical Faculty at the Waisman Center University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities. He specializes in diagnostic hearing evaluations in children and adults with different abilities and in hyperacusis. In addition, Dr. Douglas is the clinical audiologist on the LEND Pediatric Audiology Supplement grant to improve pediatric audiology training.
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Amy Hartman is the director of clinical education and clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin Madison. She provides clinical education for Au.D. students and teaches several courses including counseling for audiologists and pediatric audiology. Her clinical passion is working with children with hearing loss, particularly audiologic assessments of infants and children, and central auditory processing evaluations. Dr. Hartman is a consultant with the UW Madison LEND program. She is actively involved in local, state, regional and national initiatives to promote hearing healthcare for children and adults. She has been involved in multiple student research projects focusing on early hearing detection and intervention. She has traveled internationally to provide audiology services to underserved children. She is involved in many outreach activities including out of hospital clinics for the Amish and Mennonite populations in Wisconsin and hosting a dramatic play summer camp for children with hearing loss.
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Casey A. Wolter, B.S. is in her fourth year of the Au.D. program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Research and clinical interests include providing care and treatment to children of all ages with hearing loss through diagnostic assessments, aural rehabilitation, and early intervention services, as well as participating in community outreach for individuals across the lifespan. Casey is a Wisconsin Leadership Education in Neurodevelopmental and Related Disabilities (LEND) Program graduate where she was a contributing member on multi-disciplinary teams in providing complete and effective level of care for children with developmental needs. Casey is currently completing her audiology externship at Yale New Haven Children’s Hospital with an anticipated graduation of May 2020.
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