Barnaby Growling's Guide to NHS Audiology Placements

AUDIOLOGY STUDENTS LEND ME YOUR EARS! This guidebook aims to tell you about what is to come, in a way which perhaps the textbooks on your recommended reading lists do not. A select number of iconic authors (you know the ones) have dominated the contents of Audiology BSc, and MSc, recommended reading lists for generations; because they provide the masterful descriptions which denote our current understanding of how the human auditory system works, and how we examine its various parts. They took you behind the amplification curtain; to explain everything that you could ever wish to know about: how hearing aids work and how these instruments are prescribed. They have all rightfully endured the test of time, and it is undeniable that we owe many of our clinical methods to each of these author’s meticulous contributions. What our Audiology forefathers didn’t mention, however; are the unexpected things that can occur when you apply their pure research-based recommendations, to unfiltered members of the general public, inside the bustling clinical workhouse that is the NHS. For those of you who desire an unabridged idea of what being a modern-day Audiologist in the NHS is actually like, through the medium of true anecdotes, then they are all waiting for you inside this guidebook.