Appraising Smartphone APPs as a Tool for Practical Teaching in Audiology

• 作者: Daw Khin Saw Naing Gavin Coad Maher Sefein Mohd Normani Zakaria
• 来源期刊: 美中教育评论：A
• 学科: 教育
• 关键词: PURE TONE AUDIOMETRY SMARTPHONE APPs-learning by doing problem-solving screening
• 年，卷（期）: 2018,（7）
• 页码范围: 300-306
• 页数: 7页
• 分类号: G4

摘要

Pure Tone Audiometry(PTA)is an essential investigation used in evaluating the degree and the character of hearing loss.However,due to busy clinic time and overflow of patients,the PTA teaching is not optimized during clinical sessions.Accordingly,the students’experience of PTA is not optimized.To overcome this problem,the researchers encouraged the students to use the smartphone’s application(APPs)that simulate PTA to support the teaching and learning process of audiology.Fifty-seven medical students in their fourth-year in University Malaysia Sabah(UMS)contributed to this study.They used that APPs to screen the hearing status in a random sample of a population(N=277)in the workplace.The students managed to analyze PTA.A third of students performed the tests correctly.APPs showed high effectiveness as a diagnostic tool which supported their skills in solving the clinical problem.They managed to confirm the diagnosis of presbycusis(hearing impairment due to aging)in patients aged 60 and above.APPs as a screening tool supported students’skills in performing PTA testing(learning by doing).They identified abnormal PTA in 51.9%among those cases who did not have any complaint of hearing loss.The APPs results confirmed the complaint of the hearing loss in 42.6%of cases.APPs was also helpful in identifying non-manifested conditions in 40.4%of cases.The availability and reliability of smartphone’s APPs can overcome the problems of limited exposures and the expensive simulators.Eventually,it will enhance the medical students’competency.