Victorian Temporal Bone Surgical Course - Nov 2026

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 days dissection course, including a final cadaveric temporal bone dissection and instructional tutorials and one day of live surgeries with tutorials cases discussions.
There are 14 hours of fully supervised temporal bone dissection 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 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. The course through specific exercises will cover a range of surgical steps on all specimens:

● Ossicular reconstruction

● Intact canal wall mastoidectomy

● Canal wall down mastoidectomy

● Cochlear and Bone conduction device 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.

There is also an optional 3rd day on Friday 27 November, which includes the Live ENT Surgery Day, showcasing advanced techniques in otologic and implantable hearing surgery, including highlights from our internationally recognised Victorian Cochlear Implant Program.

This full-day educational event will provide a rare opportunity to observe live-streamed surgery performed by leading ENT surgeons, with expert commentary and case-based discussion focusing on complex hearing loss management, cochlear implantation, and best practice referral pathways.

Please note: tickets for this event will be provided through an external provider (Humanitix), and additional booking fees will be charged. The Humanitix booking fees are non-refundable.