Forensic medicine and applied audiology

Code 225FF
Credits 6

Learning outcomes

Provide knowledge on professional ethics, bioethics, privacy and confidentiality.
Provide knowledge on legislative obligations, principles of informed consent, general principles of public health.
Provide knowledge on the regulations of the social protection of hearing impaired, of the recognition of deaf-mutism and for the provision of hearing aids. Provide knowledge on tests for the detection of simulated deafness.
Provide knowledge on the problems associated to occupational deafness, to noise-induced hearing loss, to presbycusis, on the correlated techniques for hearing loss evaluation and on treatment by using hearing aids. Provide knowledge on the pathophysiology of tinnitus and Its treatment with hearing aids.