Victorian Temporal Bone Surgical Course
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 arts 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, including a final cadaveric temporal bone dissection and instructional tutorials.
There are 14 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 two-day 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, Cochlear Ltd hearing device implantation, 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.
The course provides accreditation of ASONHS set training requirements on completion of the established temporal bone exercises for the training registrar.
Future dates will be advised once finalised.
