Visiting University of São Paulo (USP)

Yesterday Prof Yvonne Wren and I had a tour around two of the campuses of the University of São Paulo (USP) with Dr Marília Pereira. USP is a large and impressive university - with 97,325 students (2022). We had a tour of the medical museum displaying historic wax models that were used to teach students how to identify different skin diseases. We also visited the Fonoaudiologica [speech-language pathology] Department. The students undertake a 5 year bachelor's degree and are dual qualified in speech pathology and audiology at the end of their degree. We spent time visiting Prof. Haydee's office - and looking at the assessments she had developed (including ABFW) and the ultrasound equipment (including the helmet that I was involved in trialing at Queen Margaret University in the UK in 2006).

Dr Marília Pereira (USP, Brazil), Prof Sharynne McLeod and Prof Yvonne Wren (UK)

Photographs of students who have graduated from USP

Visiting the Historical Museum of the Faculty of Medicine

Fonoaudiologica Department

Ultrasound  helmet that I was involved in trialing at Queen Margaret University in the UK in 2006