Hearing Views

HHTM hasn’t tracked changes in annual rankings of audiology graduate programs on a year to year basis, but plans to do so from now on.  Past rankings disappear from on the US News and World Report web page as it updates each year.  Table 1 shows the top ranked programs for 2016.  Table 2, at the end of this post,

by Michael Metz, PhD   “You are an ethicist! and speak with knowledge.”  (comment to “A Changing Ethical Structure“) When I began submitting posts at HHTM, I sought to provoke discussion on several topics, in hope of soliciting informed Comments.  Occasionally, I get a complimentary, concise and definitive one as shown above.  Not all comments are soft balls —   The practices

By Harvey Abrams In a recent MarkeTrak report, Kochkin and colleagues (2010) presented compelling evidence suggesting that the success of patients in real-world settings is directly correlated with the extent to which their hearing care provider adheres to a best-practice protocol for selecting and fitting hearing aids. This protocol, as outlined in clinical practice guideline documents such as those from

By Jerry L. Northern, PhD    A Life in Audiology is a fascinating new autobiography written by Dr. James Jerger in which he describes his interesting life story and personalizes his career as our foremost audiologist.  In a very readable 144 pages, Dr. Jerger recounts his early years growing up in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, his brief stint in the Army, and

by Mike Metz, PhD A friend of mine spoke often on ethical and legal behavior. He repeatedly said that if Audiology wished to be considered a true healthcare profession, its practitioners would not base their ethical decisions on some examples found in medicine (and some other professions). He has a right to make such a statement since he is a

by Barbara E. Weinstein, Ph.D. Today’s post is an opinion piece contributed by Dr. Weinstein, who usually writes “Downstream Consequences” at Hearing Economics. I recently completed an excellent piece in the New Yorker titled “The Heroism of Incremental Medicine,” by Atul Gawande a noted surgeon and author. It was inspirational and timely, leading me to conclude how audiologists should consider pivoting

Stupid stuff  happens in 2017, but it was alive and well five years ago, too, when Hearing Views editor David Kirkwood reported in on March 14, 2012.   By David H. Kirkwood Anyone who spends as much time as I do scouring the web for hearing health-related news has to wade through an enormous mass of content. Some of it

This post, originally published January 4, 2012, reminds readers that hearing problems and solutions are more nuanced than simply “making things louder” or even making sounds clearer.  The message is well worth repeating in today’s market as PSAPs gain prominence and Hearables offer more auditory and non-auditory features. By Sarinne Fox   Most people who consult an audiologist do so

  We will undoubtedly see many innovative changes in how hearing aids and personal sound amplification products (PSAPs) are manufactured and distributed in the coming decades. So wrote Dennis Van Vliet on October 24, 2011, soon after hiHealthInnovations  announced plans to provide hearing aids directly to consumers rather than through licensed practitioners. The news generated much discussion and debate in

The title of this controversial post, originally published 10/18/2011, is more true today than it was 5 years ago, due to rapid technological changes in consumer electronics, wearable health devices, and social policy scrutiny of the FDA-protected hearing aid industry in the US.  Dr Tseng’s post was pioneering in the sense that it revealed entry into relatively unexplored territory in