If you want an exciting career that stimulates you, challenges you, and rewards you, then the Master of Clinical Audiology sets you on the right path.

The degree provides you with the professional qualification to practice as an Audiologist in Australia.

Applications for entry in 2012 are now open and are due November 1^st 2011.

Course outline

Audiologists are hearing health care professionals responsible for the assessment and management of individuals with hearing, communication and balance problems. They provide clinical services in hospitals, community health centres, hearing aid clinics, and in some medical practices. Many Audiologists are involved in research, helping to develop new behavioural and electrophysiological test techniques, cochlear implants, hearing aids and hearing health therapies.  Some audiologists work in community and workplace settings including programs aimed at reducing the prevalence and impact of middle ear disease in rural and remote aboriginal communities, newborn hearing screening programs and hearing conservation programs in industry. The Master of Clinical Audiology course at UWA is one of only five university audiology programs offered in Australia. The course provides students with extensive supervised clinical placements in a variety of workplace settings.  Employment prospects for Audiologists who graduate from UWA are excellent both within Australia and overseas.  Graduates are eligible for full membership of the Audiological Society of Australia.

Supported by UWA's internationally recognised Auditory Laboratory, the course also provides students with opportunities to complete audiology research projects.  The Auditory Laboratory is world renowned for more than 30 years for the excellence of its research into the fundamental physiological processes of both normal hearing and hearing impairment.

The staff are not only internationally-recognised researchers in this field, but have a great deal of experience in teaching at the undergraduate and postgraduate level.

Students taking the Master of Clinical Audiology at UWA will be taught by highly trained and skilled staff with first hand experience of the latest developments in hearing science. All students will have the opportunity to carry out audiology research in this exciting environment.

Core units

To qualify for the degree of Master of Clinical Audiology, a student must complete the following:

First Year

• PHYL8510 Physiology of the Auditory System (6 points)
• PHYL8501 Audiological Instrumentation (Part 1) (6 points)
• PHYL8511 Audiological Instrumentation (Part 2) (6 points)
• PHYL8502 Basic Clinical Audiology (Part 1) (6 points)
• PHYL8512 Basic Clinical Audiology (Part 2) (6 points)
• PHYL8515 Hearing Devices and Adult Aural Rehabilitation (6 points)
• PHYL8513 Speech, Language and Communication (6 points)
• PHYL8514 Evoked Responses in Clinical Diagnosis (6 points)

Second Year

• PHYL8610 Advanced Hearing Aids and Rehabilitation (Part 1) (12 points - both Part 1 and Part 2)
• PHYL8617 Advanced Hearing Aids and Rehabilitation (Part 2)
• PHYL8615 Advanced Clinical Audiology (Part 1) (12 points - both Part 1 and Part 2)
• PHYL8611 Advanced Clinical Audiology (Part 2)
• PHYL8613 Audiology Practice Management (6 points)
• PHYL8616 Research Project (Part 1) (12 points - both Part 1 and Part 2)
• PHYL8614 Research Project (Part 2)
• PHYL8612 Community and Workplace Audiology (6 points)
• And a minimum of 250 hours of clinical practicum over the period of the degree.

Students are normally required:

• to enrol concurrently in all the first-year units;
• to complete them all before proceeding to the second year;
• to enrol concurrently in all the second-year units.

Admission requirements

A recognised Bachelors degree (or equivalent). Applicants must be able to provide a certificate of national police clearance from their home country before enrolling.

English Language Competence

All applicants for UWA coursework programs must demonstrate a minimum level of English Language Competence.

Course enquiries

Contact: Administrative Assistant
Phone: (+61 8) 6488 3313