CPOP Curriculum

Program Objectives

Understand basic

• Personal roles and professional relationships
• Patient confidentiality
• Need for physician diagnosis
• Anatomy and physiology of the ear and vestibular system
• Types of hearing loss patterns and variations
• Physics of sound and hearing
• Causes of hearing loss and audiometric patterns
• Personal limitations as a technician

Perform

• Documentation of patient case history and exam
  • Review patient history
  • Summary of patient visit
• Basic examination of the ear
• Patient instructions/education regarding basic hearing testing
• Tuning fork tests
• Pure tone air and bone conduction audiometry with and without masking
• Speech audiometry with and without masking
• Tympanometry

Identify

• Existing problems that preclude accurate testing and the need for referral to an otolaryngologist

Develop an awareness of

• Other hearing tests
  • Otoacoutic emission testing
  • Evoked potential response
  • Electrocochleography (ECoG)
  • Central Auditory Testing

  • Pseudo-hypoacusis testing
• Hearing aids and devices
• Types, causes, and purpose of vestibular disorders and tests
• ENG