andycane

Thanks Cancuckian Chick. Price is something else I've been looking into it, but seems like my aid is not compatiable with the one I want the most which requires a euro input or something of the sort, or portability becomes an issue(especially since we carry walkers, forms, kits).

To the Topic Creator; I stumbled across this website that's designed for people with hearing loss in the medical field. Granted, the number of posters there are small, but looks very resourceful. It might be a great place to get some basic info. Here's the link: http://http://www.amphl.org/forums/index.php You can also check out what others say in other fields as well (as it includes fields such as audio, assistants, nurses, therapy, etc..). There's also a mention of the mask & surgery concerns in their forum.

The link provided: (AMPHL)The Association of Medical Professionals With Hearing Losses which is designed for individuals with hearing loss interested in or working in health care fields. Hope that helps.

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Canuckian_Chick

Andy< Awesome thanks so much as I wanted to get into the medical field probably will have to do it online as I have a good job right now but this online course for my backup or for career change... since most of the online are from USA which I'm in Canada - not too sure if the qualification is the same, any comments?? such as being a Medical Coding/Billing Clerk as I don't have all the maths or science credits for these but I'm not too sure I would need help in it lol..

Well why not ask your audie about what you need maybe you just need a boot to make it work...

Good luck smile..

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Yeah that one is very good website. It helps you to prepare with your future career. Once I get in university, I will use it this.

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andycane

I don't know much about the medical billing/coding clerk requirements. But I do know that you should check out the reputation of the school, so pay attention to some of the stats they provide, such as graduation to hire ratio as well as what students are saying about their courses & the school itself.

If you plan on working in the states, I would check out the requirements that the US board wants and I would see how well that school meets those requirements. There's usually a few hoops that you may have to jump through, so you want to make sure the school will provide a good structured program to satisfy most if not all requests by what setting you're going to be in. We have a couple of therapist(all physical therapist) who acquired their degree in their native country, but had to go through an extensive process to become licensed here in the states...but in the end they all said it was worth it.


As for the audiologist, I do have a scheduled appointment the 2nd week of July as a follow up with my recent aid purchase. So I will be having this discussion with her. I just have to decide where my acceptable price to benefit ratio is.


side note: I just noticed on my last post, the link provided does not work because I placed 2 HTTP:// in the link. So if it doesn't work, you can just go to the home page AMPHL - Association of Medical Professionals with Hearing Losses

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