Audiology is more than selling hearing aids.

It’s excellent diagnostics and smart clinical decision-making… and then selling hearing aids.

Yet so many powerful diagnostic tools are left ignored—gathering cobwebs in the garage of our careers. Why?

Most of these tests aren’t complicated. Some are already installed on our computers. And they have the potential not just to change patients’ lives, but to make our work more rewarding—and yes, more profitable.

Maybe you never learned how these tools really work. Maybe you were taught once, but never felt confident enough to use them with a real patient. Or maybe no one ever showed you the clear, practical benefit: better outcomes, better care, better business.

This stream is about changing that.

We’ll take a handful of underused clinical tools, show you exactly when they matter, and give you the confidence to use them back in the clinic.

Just some of the tools:

• Otoscopy: see what you’re missing out on. We’re going to compare your otoscope to digital camera otoscopy, head-loupes and a medical microscope.
• Extended high-frequency audiometry: because the cochlea doesn’t magically stop at 8kHz.
• Speech testing in noise: we know we should (but we don’t). Are you ANL, ACT or QuickSin curious? Let’s play those lists together.
• DPOAES: who’s doing them? Great diagnostic audiologists, that’s who. Want to follow their example?