Medical Student Syllabus Medical Student Syllabus Audiology Audiology, the science of hearing, involves evaluation of hearing and the rehabilitation of persons with problems of communication related to hearing. During your rotation, you should observe how each of these tests are performed and develop a basic understanding of their use and interpretation. Normal BC hearing suggests normal cochlear, nerve, and brain stem function.
Pure tone thresholds .
By introducing sound through earphones or via a bone conduction oscillator, the patient is asked to respond to sounds of increasing intensity at frequencies which vary from 250 Hz to 8000 Hz. The measure of the faintest presentation level in decibels at which the patient can correctly identify 50 percent of the test words. The test measures the sensitivity for the understanding of speech. You should suspect malingering when the two tests are not consistent within 15 dB. 3. Speech discrimination score .