Eriksholm Research Centre hosted its 10th Summer Camp on 19-23 August. The long weekend, sponsored by the Oticon Foundation, brought together an international group of 46 audiology students. Presentations and activities revolved around the theme, “Beyond the Audiogram,” a natural topic to include the Ida Institute’s mission of patient centered care.
Ida Project Manager Ena Nielsen and Chief Anthropologist Hans Henrik Philipsen gave an interactive presentation, “Are You Fit for the Future?” on Saturday afternoon. In the one-hour presentation, participants were introduced to our Vision 2020 process, including our job ad for hearing care managers of the future. They were given possible future trends and asked to think about the likelihood of each of the trends taking off, and how they could possibly affect the participants’ future work.
Participants then learned about the Motivation Tools and watched the ethnographic video in which Naomi, an audiologist with the NHS in Nottingham, uses the Line and Box with her patient Paul. The session was rounded off by asking the participants, “What did you learn today that will inspire your future practice?” This allowed the students to reflect on how what Ena and Hans Henrik shared ties into the participants’ reality.
Thank you to Eriksholm for inviting us back, and to the participants for your enthusiasm!