Workshop Program - Thursday

The Workshops will be held on Thursday 19 March 2020. Please see the following for the preliminary Workshop program.

Please note, the times detailed on this program are in Queensland time (AEST).

Time	Content	Speaker
	Workshop 1: Applying Audiological Research to Provide High-Quality Evidence-Based Clinical Practice 0900 - 1200
0900 - 1000	Workshop 1 Sorting the Wheat from the Chaff: How to Assess the Quality of Research Articles One mantra of current clinical practice is that it should be evidence-based. This depends, in part, on the quality of the information delivered by basic, translational and clinical research, which is most often disseminated by published peer-reviewed articles. But when reading such articles, how do you assess their quality? And what differentiates a low quality from a high quality paper? It’s sad but true, that only about half the articles published in the top scientific journals are cited at least once within five years of publication. So where does that leave the articles from lesser journals? We need to know how much we can rely on information gained from published articles. This interactive workshop will give an insight into how you can assess peer reviewed articles to make them more understandable and relevant to both your clinical practice and research ambitions. This workshop has been successfully run at several audiology professional conferences, and after the first few nervous minutes when the delegates are required to start scoring ‘quality’, the sessions have ended up being lively, informative, and fun (who would have thought rating research quality could be so entertaining!).	Dr Melanie Ferguson
1000 - 1015	Morning Tea
1015 - 1200	Workshop 1 (continued) Unpacking the Pillars of Adult Aural Rehabilitation Following on from the earlier talks on the developments seen in adult aural rehabilitation (AR) over the last decade, this workshop will examine the four cornerstones of adult AR in terms of what they mean in everyday practice of audiologists. Workshop attendees will consider these four cornerstones: hearing aids and other listening devices (sensory management), knowledge and skill (instruction), auditory and cognitive training (perceptual training), and motivational engagement (counselling). Key questions similar to those below will be put to audiologists in relation to each of these interventions: How do you use these interventions in your clinic? What is the value of these interventions, individually and together? How might hearing services change to better incorporate these interventions? This interactive workshop will involve discussion with other audiologists and feed back to the whole group with a view to sharing ideas and perspectives from current and future clinical practice. Learning Outcomes: The learner will be able to describe how to assess quality of research articles. The learner will be able to explain differences between low and high quality research. The learner will be able to describe potential future changes to delivery of hearing services.	Dr Melanie Ferguson
	Workshop 2 has been cancelled