Cairns, JCU Smithfield Campus, D1, Dentistry Building, Smithfield
surgical.training@jcu.edu.au
3rd Cairns Temporal Bone Dissection Course
1-2 August 2025
Conducted by the Cairns Base Hospital Department of Surgery, Otolaryngology and Head and Neck Surgery together with The James Cook University.
This two-day course is designed as a complete temporal bone dissection course for the registrar or fellow in training or as an update for the practicing otolaryngologist.
The course will provide an update in Otology, Neurotology and Lateral skull base surgery through a lecture series provided by Queensland’s leading Otologists and Skull base surgeons. It aims also to improve the surgical skill of participants through a series of dissection exercises.
Faculty:
Dr Tony Parker
Dr Ian Gutteridge
Dr Gavin Quail
Dr Ryan Adams
Dr Andrew Lomas
Dr David Bell-Allen
Dr Shane Anderson
Dr Paul Canty
Upon completion of the course, participants will understand clinical decision making and will have improved temporal bone dissection skills so as to avoid unnecessary complications. The course provides accreditation of ASONHS set training requirements on completion of the established temporal bone exercises for the training registrar. The course will provide two complete cadaveric temporal bones for dissection covering a range of exercises including:
Tympanoplasty
Ossicular reconstruction
Meatoplasty
Intact canal wall mastoidectomy
Canal wall down mastoidectomy
Cochlear Implantation
Facial nerve decompression
Middle cranial fossa and lateral approaches to the temporal bone
Emphasis will be placed on providing the surgeon with a conceptual understanding of the three-dimensional temporal bone anatomy. The course ensures intensive hands-on dissection under faculty supervision for six hours each day with supportive teaching.
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