Event Location
Surgical Skills Centre, Ninewells Hospital, Dundee, United Kingdom
Event Dates
21 Jun 2022 - 23 Jun 2022
Event Website
https://dihs.dundee.ac.uk/surgical-skills/course-calendar
Event Cost
£1200
This 2½ day course is suitable for ST4 grades or above and consultants are more than welcome. Course participants, will be supervised by trainers with a ratio of 1:2. The course consists of dissections/lecturers and a course dinner sponsored by Med-El on the first evening. The temporal bone dissection facilities in the Skills Centre are some of the best equipped in the country.
The programme will include training in all aspects of temporal bone dissection including:
Canalplasty
Atticotomy
Attico-antrostomy
Modified Radical Mastoidectomy
Posterior Tympanotomy
Oto-endoscopy
Labyrinthectomy
Translabyrinthine approach to the internal auditory meatus
Endolymphatic sac decompression
Jugular Fossa Exploration
Ossiculoplasty using a range of PORPs and TORPs
Insertion of middle ear & cochlear implants.
Translabyrinthine & retrosigmoid approaches to the IAC
Progression through the dissection will be performed under close supervision of trainers and paced at an appropriate level to the participant. The extent of dissection, and other procedures, carried out by each individual trainee will be tailored to their level of experience.