Canada

Research, main topics

Morrison - Irritable Larynx Syndrome, recurrent papilloma, spasmodic dysphonia, laryngeal breathing disorders, laryngeal maninfestations of reflux, vocal paralysis.
Rammage - Occupational voice disorders, group approaches to voice therapy, parkinsons disease and voice.
H Nichol - psychiatric and psychological aspects of voice disorders.
B Pullan - singing in children, the singing teacher in the voice clinic.

- Research project
The fellow will be required to participate in basic science and/or clinical research. The basic science research will focus on neurolaryngology and may include studies on coordination of laryngeal muscle systems, sensory-motor reactions of the aero-digestive tract or laryngeal EMG and muscle stimulation studies. The clinical research project may be in any of a wide range of disorders seen in the daily voice clinics, and will make use of a video-tape library of more than 10,000 laryngoscopies all of which are indexed in a dBase data bank. The fellow will present updates on his/her research at monthly research meetings and is expected to complete the research project and submit to a national meeting for presentation and
publication.

Phoniatrics in the frame of ENT, program and examination -
postgraduate programs
Described above - there is no examination as yet.