2026 ASOHNS ASM Temporal Bone and Hearing Implant Surgical Course
Date: Monday 16th and 17th Tuesday March 2026
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Course Overview
This is an innovative course dedicated to the surgery of temporal bone with a specific focus on hearing implants. 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, unaccredited registrars, fellows and young consultants.
This course is a two day dissection course, with a cadaveric temporal bone dissection, 3 artificial bones (different anatomy, young children and malformed cochlea) and specific instructional tutorials. There are 11 hours of fully supervised temporal bone dissection and implantation in the Surgical Skills Laboratory which has fully equipped work stations, 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 with a specific focus on the surgery of hearing implants from all brands with lectures, guided dissections and specific surgical exercises provided by the Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital leading otologists, companies, and guest surgeons.
The course provides accreditation of ASONHS set training requirements on completion of the established temporal bone exercises for the training registrar. The course is also open to a group of participants who don’t dissect but would be able to observe and use all workstations
Speakers
A/Prof Jean-Marc Gerard – Course Director
Dr Bing The and Claire Iseli – Course Co-Director
Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Surgeons
International and National Guest Speakers
Dr Peter Monksfeld (Birmingham, UK)
Prof John-Martin Hempel (Munich, Germany)
Andrew Chang (QLD)
Nadine De Alwis (VIC)
Who Should Attend
Unaccredited and accredited registrars, fellow and young consultants
Course Pre-requisites
ENT Training Program, Unaccredited Registrars or post graduated.
Price
Dissector: $2,300 excl GST
Non Dissector: $520 excl GST Max number of applicants
8 particpants - 8 observers