Program Overview

Introduction to the Master in Speech Therapy for the Surgical, Audiological, ENT, and Orthodontics Areas

The Master in Speech Therapy for the Surgical, Audiological, ENT, and Orthodontics Areas provides speech therapists with knowledge and skills concerning the prevention, evaluation, and takeover of patients with ENT-related pathologies. This program explores speech therapy issues from a phonetics/ENT standpoint, offering career opportunities in private, partnered public, and public institutions.

Educational Content

The Master in Speech Therapy for the Surgical, Audiological, ENT, and Orthodontics Areas covers a wide range of topics, including:

• Hearing impairments and disabilities across the entire life cycle, rehabilitated with cochlear implants or hearing aids
• Rehabilitation of people with voice disorders, focusing on professional and artistic voice aspects
• Prevention and treatment of larynx dysfunctions and/or surgery outcomes of the vocal tract, including management of larynx prosthetics and tubes, and caregiver consultancy
• Assessment and speech therapy intervention concerning craniofacial malformations, malocclusions, and miofunctional oral disorders

The program includes lessons, workshops, internships, project work, individual study, and a final exam. Internships are organized with students in suitable premises.

Course Target and Career Opportunities

This Master provides a training opportunity and a new occupational perspective to graduates with a Bachelor's Degree in Speech Therapy. Career opportunities include the private, public partnered, and public sectors. Professionals can spend their specialty training in the ENT field, acquiring competences in line with the National Healthcare System, private healthcare, and private practice needs.

Course Program

The Master in Speech Therapy for the Surgical, Audiological, ENT, and Orthodontics Areas provides training on the following topics:

• Managing a multidisciplinary ENT team
• Speech therapists today: core resume, core competences, and establishment of the register
• Legal medicine
• Public law and corporate organization
• Occupational psychology and medicine
• Teaching for speech therapy tutoring
• Integrated endoscopists and speech therapist diagnosis
• Bibliographic research in the ENT field
• Statistics
• Clinical pedagogy
• Clinical care paths
• Technology and speech therapy
• Patients with hearing issues: rehabilitation of complex cases
• Artistic vocology
• ENT oncology: surgery and speech therapy rehabilitation
• Deglutition disorders
• Craniofacial malformations: multidisciplinary take-over

General Ranking of Merit

The general ranking of merit for the academic year 2024/25 will be published according to the timing provided in the Call.

Information

• Thematic area: Health, environment, and territory
• End of classes: 31/07/2026
• Mandatory attendance: 70%
• Minimum available spots: 15
• Maximum available spots: 25
• First installment: € 1,672.50
• Second installment: € 1,006.50

Course Structure

The course will be structured with lessons once a month, on Friday (full day) and Saturday morning, or, if necessary, on Thursday afternoon and Friday (full day). During the two-year course, there will be three-four intensive weeks (Monday-Friday).

Internship

Part of the internship will consist of analyzing clinical cases in the classroom, and another part will be carried out in the ENT Units, identified as agreed with the Master's Direction.

Lessons and Final Dissertation

Yes, lessons will be held in person only, in the classrooms of the University Hospital of Padua. The final oral exam will consist of the presentation/discussion of a final project.

Program Details

• Classes start: 28/11/2024
• Duration: Two-year
• Venue: Padua
• Language: Italian
• ECTS: 60
• Teaching method: In-person
• Total enrollment fee: € 2,679.00
• Pre-enrollment deadline: 25/11/2024