[Brazilian Ph.D. speech-language pathologist and audiologists: analysis of thesis material according to the field of practice and programs].
BACKGROUND
Ph.D. programs in Speech-Language and Hearing Science.


OBJECTIVE
to bring to date the concluded doctorate thesis of Brazilian speech-language and hearing pathologists, until December of 2003.


CONCLUSIONS
from the profile analysis of the concluded doctorate thesis of Brazilian speech-language pathologists, it is possible to conclude that in the period between 1976, when the first thesis was concluded, to December of 2003, a total of 203 thesis elaborated by Ph.D. speech-language and hearing pathologists were found (in its majority women), in the areas of Hearing, Language, Voice and Oralfacial Myofunctional system.
Russo
Iêda Chaves Pacheco
IC
Fonoaudióloga, Doutora em Distúrbios da Communicação Humana, Departmento de Clinica Fonoaudiológica e do Programa de Estudos Pós -Graduados em Fonoaudiologia da Pontificia Universidade Católica de São Paulo. irusso@terra.com.br
Ferreira
Léslie Piccolotto
LP
D001298:Audiology / Q000193:education*; D001938:Brazil; D004503:Education, Medical, Graduate / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D012106:Research / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D013066:Speech-Language Pathology / Q000193:education*; D014831:Voice