Duration
2 years full time
Mode (Location)
On campus (Parkville)
Intake
March
Key dates
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Fees
Commonwealth Supported Places (CSPs) available
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Entry schemes
Access Melbourne is available
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Student experience
Overview
The Master of Clinical Audiology offers a transformative educational experience, equipping you with the skills to improve communication capabilities for individuals of all ages and backgrounds. This course is designed to:
- Provide expert teaching from clinicians and educators
- Prepare you for a diverse and rewarding career in audiology
- Lay a solid foundation for those interested in pursuing advanced research
You will join other like-minded students from diverse backgrounds in this fast-paced and challenging course. Over the two-year program, you and your tight-knit student community will experience high levels of clinical exposure. You will learn how to apply technical knowledge and family centred care to ensure the best outcomes for your patients.
Highlights of the Master of Clinical Audiology experience
Day-to-day experience
As a student, you will work closely alongside peers from various backgrounds to develop specialised knowledge and technical skills. You will also benefit from learning with students from diverse educational backgrounds, including information technology, music, psychology, linguistics, auditory neuroscience, and speech pathology.
Throughout the program, you will work closely with experienced clinicians currently practicing in the clinic that is co-located with the teaching program.
Learning mode
The course focuses on early clinical exposure, with client interaction training from day one. Students will be exposed to teaching innovations including simulation and virtual patients to help prepare them for practical experiences within the Melbourne Hearing Care Clinic.
Experienced clinicians in every area of audiology teach in the course. This ensures students learn from a range of experts in best practice.
Opportunities
Clinical Audiology is a career that involves in-depth understanding between clinician and client. Audiology presents many opportunities for you to contribute to the well-being of patients both locally and globally.
Through the University of Melbourne and its affiliated institutions, you will have access to different clinic types throughout the two years of the program. These include within the internal clinic as well as clinics based in community centres, hospitals, telehealth (in Cambodia) and government organisations. Students will also be offered opportunities to participate in placements interstate and overseas.
Hear from alumni in the Master of Clinical Audiology
Read about Emma's experience:
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Emma Webb
After working as an exercise physiologist for five years I was ready for something new. I still wanted to help people and I was after a scientific challenge, so I chose audiology.
I have hearing loss myself (I have cochlear implants) so growing up I visited the audiologist a lot. Back then I didn’t think I’d make it a career though!
The course is very placement oriented, so you get good exposure to lots of different aspects of audiology, from paediatrics to adult diagnostics and rehab. And because the University has a teaching clinic, we often did placement with our lecturers and supervisors which was really beneficial.
I came in thinking I wanted to work with cochlear implants but the placements exposed me to so many more options, and helped me realise audiology is much more diverse than I first thought.
The teaching was wonderful. My supervisors were really passionate and incredibly supportive. And the other students were great too – it’s a small cohort so you get to know everyone, and you do placement in pairs so we all ended up quite close.
A highlight for me was spending a week volunteering in Cambodia. We worked at the children’s surgical centre with the local ear, nose and throat specialist and audiology nurses. It was very hard work but definitely a life-changing experience.
I’ve just finished the course and now I’m doing a PhD, balancing my time between working in clinic and doing research with the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute. We’re looking into developing a screening tool for newborns to detect cytomegalovirus – a virus that’s the leading infectious cause of permanent hearing loss in babies.
I love balancing research and clinical work. I’ve definitely found the challenge I was looking for.