Programs

Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery
The Division of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery continues its tradition of teaching excellence with facial plastics grand rounds and facial plastics teaching conference, held the first Thursday of each month. In addition to the division's own faculty, grand rounds feature guest speakers from the related fields of dermatology, oculoplastic surgery, plastic surgery, and maxillofacial surgery. Facial plastics teaching conference, which follows grand rounds, features interesting case presentations and remains among the most popular of all resident teaching conferences.

Cochlear Implant Center
Education is an important aspect of the Cochlear Implant Center. Not only does the program strive to educate professionals and consumers in the community about the potential benefits of cochlear implants, it also serves as a resource to other educational and rehabilitative settings that provide services to the hearing impaired. Finally, the program educates the user and user's family to assure success with the cochlear device.

Microsurgery Training Center
The Microsurgery Training Center trains residents and students and offers practicing surgeons intensive training courses in highly advanced microsurgical techniques. It is located on the third floor of the Rosenstiel building on the University of Miami School of Medicine campus. The center is an interactive teaching laboratory with 12 fully equipped working stations for trainees and a central teaching station for the instructor.

Spanish Temporal Bone Dissection Course
The Microsurgery Training Center hosts a yearly Temporal Bone Dissection Course in Spanish. The course is designed for specialists and residents in otolaryngology with the goal of increasing their knowledge of techniques in surgical otology and skull base surgery. For more information on the next course in September 2005, please contact Ana Chason or Arlene Villarrubia at the number below:

El Centro de Otología presenta un curso anual de disección de hueso temporal en español. El curso está diseñado para especialistas y residentes de Otorrinolaringología con el fin de aumentar sus conocimientos de las técnicas de cirugía otológica y de base de cráneo. Los participantes asistirán a las presentaciones didácticas de introducción, observarán cirugía televisada en vivo, y tendrán a su disposición instrumentos y dos huesos temporales para disecar en nuestro moderno laboratorio. Para mas información sobre el próximo evento, Septiembre del 2005, por favor comunicase con Ana Chason o Arlene Villarrubia.