Professional Education Program - CI Advanced

This course is intended for customers involved in the CI fitting process who require an in-depth training in cochlear implant from an audiological perspective in order to support advanced programming sessions and complex cases.

Pre-requisite: Nucleus CI Introductory course
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Who should attend:

Audiologists, CI fitting professionals, Speech therapists.

Learning Outcomes

By the end of this course participants will be able to:

• Develop a great competency level of knowledge of physiology and speech acoustics in the context of implantation, electrical stimulation and clinical programming.
• Explain bimodal and hybrid fitting flow.
• Perform support for advanced CI programming, NRT and telemetry.
• Explain advanced electrophysiological measurements.
• Explain what investigations may be useful for specific issues.
• Explain how a multidisciplinary approach may achieve an optimal resolution.
• Perform NRT test options such as Spread of Excitation, Neural Recovery Function, Rate Adaptation, and Neural Fatigue and explain their clinical applications.