This CME course is designed to address the practice gaps and the educational needs of general otolaryngologists. The course will span two and a half days and will consist of didactic lectures, panel discussions, and Q&A sessions with ample time to interact with the course faculty. The topics of the lectures are selected to cover the clinical scope of practice of general otolaryngologists. The panel discussions will discuss challenging clinical cases that are chosen to complement the lectures and to help apply the knowledge acquired in the course to clinical practice. An ample...
Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Meltzer Auditorium, 3rd floor
MEE/Stanford Update in Tracheoesophageal Voice Restoration and Laryngectomy Care: 2019 will provide practitioners who care for laryngectomy patients with a comprehensive overview of the current standard of care practices for management of disorders in this region as well as an introduction and review of evolving and innovative treatment approaches.
Distinguished faculty from Harvard Medical School as well as from prominent programs nationally will present a series of didactic lectures and participate in open panels, which cover the evaluation and...
Held annually at Mass. Eye and Ear, the Intraoperative Neural Monitoring (IONM) Certification Course for Thyroid and Parathyroid Surgery is designed to provide one-on-one intensive surgical, anesthesia, and monitoring instruction.
The course incorporates observation in the operating room with a real-time demonstration of IONM set-up and surgical applications during surgeries, hands-on experience with a simulation monitoring model, and a series of lectures covering basic and advanced IONM techniques, medico legal and ethical aspects, application of...
Summary: Topics will cover residency, research, subspecialties, most treated conditions, work-life balance, interaction with other specialties and non-practitioners. Following a panel presentation, there will be an opportunity for a live Q&A, dinner, and networking. Dinner will be provided.
With specially designed instruments and latest generation surgical endoscopes, endoscopic approaches to otologic surgeries may offer surgeons better visualization and navigation in appropriate cases. Faculty from Mass. Eye and Ear/Harvard Medical School are offering a 2-day dissection course on endoscopic ear surgery, one of the only CME courses in the United States exclusively dedicated to this advanced technique.
The field of thyroid and parathyroid surgery has recently undergone significant changes; thyroid cancer incidence has increased dramatically over the last several decades, technologic advances have been achieved in molecular analysis of patients, and the American Thyroid Association has published its new set of medical and surgical thyroid nodule and thyroid cancer guidelines. There is a tremendous new data set that is important to convey to medical endocrinologists and thyroid and parathyroid surgeons.
This course is a 2-day course about surgery of the thyroid and parathyroid...
