CEU Courses Audio

Most clinicians recognize the importance of empowerment in the patient journey, but do they know what it really means for a patient to feel empowered? Find out in this engaging and informative podcast with WSA research scientist, Sarah Gotowiec, PhD, who reviews the five dimensions of patient empowerment and how clinicians can apply her research to empower patients more effectively throughout the patient journey. This recent open access article is the focus of her discussion: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14992027.2021.1915509

Health literacy is a critical aspect of patient centered care, but it often flies under the radar of many hearing care professionals. In this podcast, Barbara Weinstein, esteemed professor at the City University of New York, sits down with Brian Taylor to discuss the multidimensional aspects of health literacy and how hearing care professionals can improve the patient activation process by applying various health literacy principles.

Dave invites Dr. Timothy Shriver, Chairman of The Special Olympics, to the podcast to discuss his organization’s alliance with Starkey Cares, never saying “I’m just…”, putting the power of connections over “things”, and creating a movement that’s a welcome place for people who want to make a difference.

What’s new in hearing aids? Which one is right for me? Can they relieve my tinnitus? And aren’t they all the same? Host Dave Fabry, Ph.D, Archelle Georgiou, MD, and Jamie Myers, Au.D. answer these questions and more in this special Better Hearing Month podcast.

While in town from his home in Zambia, Dr. Alfred Mwamba stops by the studio to share with Dave how he got into audiology via tennis, the idiosyncrasies of hearing loss, and hearing health in Africa, advocating for better hearing, and making the choice to serve and change lives.

Thorsten Quaas, Starkey’s VP of European Sales, talks to Dave about his 36 years in the industry, how hearing aid technology has changed during that time, the art of custom devices, and what people outside of the U.S. are looking for from hearing aids.

Starkey President and CEO, Brandon Sawalich, sits down with Dave to discuss why Covid erased any doubts that hearing is essential, how Starkey never stopped innovating during the pandemic, industry challenges, and opportunities, the Starkey Expo, and why focusing on the patient has been a key to our success.

Practical information on ethical conduct and decision making for audiologists. Specific topics include models for ethical decision making in health care professions, ethical provision of audiology services via teleaudiology, ensuring ethical behavior of audiology support personnel, and real-life case study examples of unethical behavior in audiology.

This course provides an overview of a monthly interprofessional case conference for health professions trainees supported by the Eastern Colorado Geriatric Research, Education and Clinical Center (GRECC). The conference enables trainees from audiology, pharmacy, psychology, social work, speech language pathology, physical therapy and geriatric medicine to share and discover expertise and resources to enhance their practices when providing care to older Veterans and care partners. This course is presented in partnership with the Association of VA Audiologists (AVAA).

The ability of audiologists to visit social media sites such as Facebook’s Audiology Happy Hour to “crowd source” clinical opinions are popular, but there are several significant drawbacks. A preferred approach to tapping into the hive mind is using evidence-based practice (EBP) principles. This podcast reviews basic EBP principles, the value of the systematic meta-analysis and how they improve the clinical decision-making process and ultimately patient outcomes.