In 2025, The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital will be hosting the below courses:

2025 Victorian Temporal Bone Surgical Course

Friday 28 February and Saturday 1 March 2025

Friday 18 and Saturday 19 July 2025

This is an innovative course dedicated to the surgical anatomy of the middle ear and technical skill development in temporal bone surgery.  Modern and state of the art artificial specimens will be used allowing participants to dissect specimens with different surgical anatomy complexity and fast tracking your surgical skill learning curve.  This instruction course is open to all trainees and unaccredited registrars.

This course is a two-day dissection course, and includes 2 artificial specimens and a final cadaveric temporal bone dissection, and instructional tutorials.

The course consists of 18 hours of fully supervised temporal bone dissection in the Surgical Skills Laboratory which has fully equipped workstations, microscopes, new instruments and state of the art micro drilling systems, along with a permanent in-house audio-visual facility.

This course is designed as a complete temporal bone dissection course for the registrar or fellow with innovations to fast track your surgical learning curve. The course will provide an update in Otology, Neurotology and Lateral skull base surgery through lectures, guided dissections and specific surgical exercises provided by the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital leading Otologists and Skull base surgeons.

View the program here.

Registrations for the event are now open, please register using the link.

Please note: tickets for this event will be provided through an external provider (Humanitix), and additional booking fees will be charged. The Humanitix booking fees are non-refundable.