2026 Victorian Temporal Bone Surgical Course November

VIC Temporal Bone Surgical Course

WHEN: 25th and 26th November 2026
WHERE: Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Surgical Skills Lab, 5th Floor, Education Precinct, 32 Gisborne Street, East Melbourne
CONTACT: Kerryn Baker 
   
   

 

 

 

 

 

 

2026 Victorian Temporal Bone Surgical Course

Date: 25th and 26th November 2026

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Course Overview

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, 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. The course through specific exercises will cover a range of surgical steps on all specimens:

  • Ossicular reconstruction
  • Meatoplasty
  • Intact canal wall mastoidectomy
  • Canal wall down mastoidectomy
  • Cochlear Implantation
  • Facial nerve decompression
  • Translabyrinthine approach to internal auditory canal

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

Who Should Attend

Unaccredited and accredited registrars

Course Pre-requisites

ENT Training Program, Unaccredited Registrars or post graduated. 

Price 

Dissector: $2,100 excl GST

Non Dissector: $500 excl GST 
Max number of applicants 

8 particpants - 4 observers