This course seeks to bring practicing otolaryngologists up to date with the latest techniques in otologic surgery, including chronic ear disease, otosclerosis, vestibular disorders, and endoscopic ear techniques. Faculty will provide lectures and dissection demonstrations. Under the guidance of faculty, course participants will perform dissections on three fresh temporal bones in the state-of-the-art Mass Eye and Ear surgical skills lab.
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 IONM data in surgical...
