American Audiology Board Of Intraoperative Monitoring

The American Audiology Board of Intraoperative Monitoring (AABIOM) is approved as the clinical specialty recognition board on intraoperative monitoring by the Council for Clinical specialty Recognition (CCSR) of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA). The AABIOM serves to ensure the provision of clinical intraoperative monitoring and interpretation services (IOM) to referring surgeons, health care facilities and their respective patients, by licensed and competent audiologists who demonstrate a broad fund of knowledge, advanced clinical training and particular clinical expertise in the subspecialty field of IOM. The AABIOM directs and oversees a professional level subspecialty credentialing process, the end goal of which is specialty board recognition certifying an audiologist as having met specific educational, experiential and clinical competency standards, as well as the successful completion of a written examination, both to provide clinical practice in IOM , and to interpret the neuromonitoring data contemporaneously for direct dissemination to any and all members of the surgical, anesthesia, medical, and/or operating room support staff. AABIOM specialty recognition also serves as a quality assurance indicator for competent clinical service provision and qualified professional contemporaneous data interpretation by audiologists practicing intraoperative monitoring for insurance carriers, governmental agencies, professional organizations, health care facilities, credentialing bodies and legal professionals.