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The Association of Medical Professionals With Hearing Losses provides information, promotes advocacy and mentorship, and creates a network for individuals with hearing loss interested in or working in health care fields.
Association of Medical Professionals With Hearing Losses, abbreviated as (AMPHL), is a non-profit organization formed in the year 2000 by individuals who recognized the profound need to address issues surrounding their hearing loss as members of health care fields. AMPHL specifically targets those with degrees in professional health care fields such as physicians, veterinarians, dentists, nurses, physician’s assistants, technicians, audiologists, therapists, as well as students from these respective fields. This organization was formed for several reasons. As the American With Disabilities Act becomes more integrated in medicine, an increasing number of individuals with hearing loss are entering health care fields. Consequently, there is a need to educate the colleagues of practicing health care professionals with hearing loss and those involved in the health care training of students with hearing loss. Furthermore, an extraordinary number and types of new challenges are faced by individuals with hearing loss who must succeed in predominantly hearing health care professions. A network such as AMPHL allows such persons to receive and give support to others in similar positions. AMPHL also provides mentoring to future health care professionals with hearing loss. This is an especially relevant issue since many of us have had few, if any, role models to guide us through training. AMPHL facilitates outreach to motivate students with hearing loss who dream of careers in health care professions.
AMPHL uses the world wide web at http://www.amphl.org/ to accomplish these goals since most people in its target population are scattered across the country. In this way, we access and disseminate information with greater speed and reduce the duplication of efforts. Some specific areas of interest include amplified, electronic, and visual stethoscopes; see-through surgical masks; and various methods for obtaining and assimilating the tremendous amount of information required of medical professionals (i.e. CART reporting, sign language interpreters, assistive listening devices). As the organization expands, we anticipate that hard-copy newsletters for those without web access, college outreach programs, mentorship programs, and continuing advocacy projects will be initiated.
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