2004, Number 2
Otorrinolaringología 2004; 49 (2)
Past, present and future of the audiology in Mexico
Toledo-de Coutinho H, Cano-de Gómez A
Language: Spanish
References: 6
Page: 74-79
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ABSTRACT
The speed of technological advancement which we have witnessed since the late XX century determined the fast progress of audiology. Hence, clinical diagnostic methods are more and more objective, increasing its specificity and sensitivity. In Mexico, audiology widens and expresses in a large number of societies, associations, institutes, specialized magazines, congresses, symposiums, and courses of different kind. Each month, new basic and clinical research studies are published in the specialty´s media. Knowledge in the different areas of human communication (audiology, otoneurology and phoniatrics) expands, and makes this specialty more complex and diversified. Difficulty handling such amount of information has led to professional sub-specialization. Knowledge and practice of the specialty continuously transform. History can no longer fragmented into time periods of years or decades, instead it is written everyday.REFERENCES