Requirements:
If international, you need the equivalent to the UK BTEC qualification and possess a clear police clearance certificate/CRB and a clear declaration of health.
Clinical Skills for Audiologists includes
- Otoscopy
- Puretone Audiometry (Basic Test Battery and Immittance)
- Speech Testing
- Impression taking
- Hearing aid selection and verification
- Hearing aid fitting (analogue and digital)
- Real Ear Measurements
- Rehabilitation after fittings
- Hearing Aid repairs
- ENT clinics
- Evaluation and management of tinnitus
- Site of Lesion Testing
- Electro physiological testing
- BSER
- OAE
- ENG
- Adults
- Paediatrics
- Neonatal Screening
- Cochlear Implants
Links/Information on Audiology:
National Association of Future Doctors of Audiology
Specialist library for ENT and Audiology
Hearing Aid Companies:
Oticon
Phonak
Starkey
Professional Bodies:
Registration Council for Clinical Physiologists (RCCP)
Download:
RCCP registration form
British Academy of Audiology (BAA)
Downloads:
BAA application for membership - pdf
BAA application for change of membership - pdf
Health Professions Council (HPC)
HPC UK Approved Courses:
If you trained in the United Kingdom, and you have completed and passed an approved course, you will need to apply via the 'approved qualification' route.
Downloads:
HPC Data Protection policy - pdf
HPC Standards of conduct performance and ethics - pdf
HPC UK application pack - pdf
HPC UK guidance notes - pdf
HPC Grandparenting:
If you are an operating department practitioner, and you do not hold an approved qualification then you can apply to be registered under the 'grandparenting' route.
Downloads:
HPC Data Protection policy - pdf
HPC Grandparenting application pack - pdf
HPC Grandparenting guidance notes - pdf
HPC Standards of conduct performance and ethics - pdf
HPC International:
If you are an operating department practitioner, and you do not hold an approved qualification then you can apply to be registered under the 'grandparenting' route.
Downloads:
HPC Course information form - pdf
HPC data protection policy - pdf
HPC International application pack - pdf
HPC International guidance notes - pdf
HPC Standards of conduct performance and ethics - pdf
