Tinnitus in Primary Care course for GPs

This session will describe patient self-management of tinnitus and what you can do to help patients with tinnitus. It will also show how to triage those patients who need to be referred to the first and second levels of care.

Learning Objectives

By the end of this session you will be able to:

• Recognise a patient with tinnitus
• Explain the need for initial counselling and help for patients with tinnitus
• Describe when to refer to audiologists (first level) or to specialist care (second level)

This session will help you to understand the prevalence of tinnitus in the population and differentiate tinnitus from other external and internal sounds.