Background/Aims: The Objective Structured Clinical Examination (OSCE) has an established history of assessing clinical competence for medical and allied healthcare professionals. No research has investigated the use of the OSCE within speech and language therapy undergraduate education. This study aimed to evaluate undergraduate speech and language therapy students’ perceptions of the OSCE and to determine if perceptions differed depending on stage of undergraduate education. Methods: An online survey...
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With the increase of smartphone use and availability over the last decade, mobile healthcare applications have become more accessible. Many of these applications allow users to track behaviors and goals, and acquire feedback and information while on the go. Recent studies appearing in the literature suggest that smartphones may offer a means of augmenting clinical voice assessment by recording individuals with voice disorders outside the clinic for the purpose of extracting acoustic characteristics.
Voice therapy is administered by speech-language pathologists in multiple practice settings, including private practice community voice clinics. However, the evidence for diagnosis patterns and voice treatment outcomes in community voice clinics is very limited. The purpose of this study was to extend knowledge from a previous investigation by assessing the epidemiological patterns of patient referrals to a private practice community voice clinic across a 4-year period (50 months) and to measure...
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Publication date: Available online 28 July 2020Source: Journal of VoiceAuthor(s): Zoë Thijs, Kristie Knickerbocker, Christopher R. Watts
Publication date: Available online 27 July 2020Source: Journal of VoiceAuthor(s): Yeptain Leung, Jennifer Oates, Viktória Papp, Siew-Pang Chan
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