- (1) Hearing aid dispenser applicants must complete 1,000 hours of supervised training while licensed as hearing aid dispenser trainees.
- (2) Trainee licenses are valid for one year unless renewed and may be renewed only once without prior department approval.
- (3) Trainees must be supervised by qualified licensed hearing aid dispensers who are available for regular and prompt observation, instruction, consultation, and treatment.
(4) To supervise, hearing aid dispensers must:
- (a) be currently licensed and actively practicing in Montana for at least one year; and
- (b) have no final discipline in any state against the dispenser's license or a related license such as audiologist, in the two years preceding the request to supervise.
- (5) The supervisor and trainee shall immediately notify the department and provide the reasoning for any pause in or termination of the training.
- (6) Unsupervised trainees may not practice and must receive department approval before continuing in trainee status.
- (7) Credit toward the training is only given when trainees have documented supervision.
- (8) Trainees must maintain and submit to the department every 90 days, a dated log documenting their daily tasks and duties that is signed by the trainee and supervisor.
- (9) Trainees must submit the final log upon conclusion of the supervised training to obtain approval to sit for the examination per ARM 24.151.501.
Authorizing statute(s): 37-16-402, MCA
Implementing statute(s): 37-16-402, MCA
History: NEW, 2023 MAR p. 1558, Eff. 11/4/23.