NEUROTOLOGY FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM —
Duration and Scope of Education
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The duration of the program is 24 months, all of which will
be spent at participating institutions approved by the
Residency Review Committee (RRC). Institutions approved by
the Residency Review Committee are: 1) House Clinic/House
Institute; 2) St. Vincent’s Medical Center; 3) LAC-USC
County Medical Center.
Admission to the program is contingent on completion of a
residency program in otolaryngology accredited by the
Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education (ACGME).
The program provides structured clinical opportunities for
fellows to develop advanced skills in neurotology and
lateral skull base surgery, including exposure to
intracranial approaches.
A sufficient volume and variety of cases are available to
ensure adequate inpatient and outpatient experience for eah
neurotology fellow.
Each neurotology fellow will prepare documentation of
surgical experience as both assistant surgeon, and surgeon,
in middle cranial fossa, posterior cranial fossa, and
lateral skull base surgical procedures for the treatment of
disorders of the auditory and vestibular system; facial
nerve disorders; and congenital inflammatory, neoplastic
idiopathic, and traumatic disorders of the extradural
petrous bone and apex, occipital bone, sphenoid bone, and
related structures.
The program provides structured education regarding the
diagnosis and medical, surgical, and rehabilitative
management of congenital, traumatic, inflammatory,
degenerative, neoplastic, and idiopathic diseases of the
temporal bone.
Audiometric testing including auditory brainstem responses
and otoacoustic emissions, vestibular testing, facial nerve
testing, electrophysiologic monitoring strategies and
neuroradiologic procedures used to evaluate the temporal
bone, skull base, and related structures are required
experiences.
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