- Describe a workplace hearing conservation program that is instituted when workers are exposed to hazardous noise levels, with specific concentration on the clinician’s role when performing medical surveillance examinations.
- Illustrate the essential clinical components in the hearing conservation program including patient history, physical exam, and audiogram interpretation.
- Describe how common auditory pathophysiology is exhibited with audiometric testing.
- Illustrate the common audiometric findings for noise-induced hearing loss and properly apply the OSHA definition for noise-induced hearing loss.
- Verbalize the protocol for validating a suspected threshold shift when evaluating audiometric data.
Recorded for the 2019 Spring Convention
19 minutes of synced audio and PowerPoint
Course Description:Urgent care clinics are increasingly involved in providing occupational medicine services for corporate clients. Medical surveillance examinations, as required by OSHA, are an important part of these services. One of the more common medical surveillance exams involves workers exposed to hazardous noise levels. These workers require baseline and routine follow up audiograms to detect the potential adverse effects of hazardous noise levels. Many clinicians are not familiar with the adverse effects of hazardous noise exposure. This lecture will describe the pathophysiology of noise-induced hearing loss and demonstrate the practical application of audiogram interpretation consistent with the OSHA regulation.
Speaker: Don Herip, MD, MPH, FACOEM
Dr. Herip is residency trained and Board Certified in: • Occupational Medicine (Residency at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD) • Preventive Medicine (Residency at Johns Hopkins, Baltimore, MD) • Family Medicine (Residency at Naval Hospital Pensacola, FL) After a career in the US Navy with worldwide assignments, Dr. Herip has worked at several large Healthcare systems in California, Florida, and Arizona. He has held positions as the Medical Director for Corporate Health programs and Urgent Care clinics. Dr. Herip has authored publications and delivered presentations regarding topics in Occupational Medicine, Preventive Medicine, Travel Medicine, Ergonomics, and Family Medicine. Presently, Dr Herip is a private consultant.
Disclosures:
None
.5 CME
Designation Statement
The Urgent Care Association designates this enduring material activity for a maximum of .5 AMA PRA Category 1 CreditTM. Physicians should claim only the credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Accreditation Statement
The Urgent Care Association is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians.
Submitting for Credit:
If you would like to submit for credit above, you must complete the 5 question knowledge test and answer 3 out of 5 (60%) correctly.Your certificate will be available in your library under Credits and below the title of the session.
Please email education@ucaoa.org with questions.