Course Programme

8.30 - 9.00: Registration and Coffee

9.00 - 12.30: Morning Session (Lectures) in the Postgraduate Education Centre, Level 1, QE Hospital (see directions tab)

9.00 - 10.00

1. ENT Foreign Bodies
2. Hearing Loss
3. Sinusitis & periorbital cellulitis
4. Nasal trauma

10.10 - 11.10 + Break

5. Pharyngeal and oesophageal foreign bodies
6. Airway emergencies
7. Epistaxis
8. Tonsillitis & quinsy

11.20 - 12.30

9. Facial nerve palsy
10. Acute Suppurative Otitis Media & Mastoiditis
11. Acute Otitis Externa
12. Post-op Complications

12.30 - 1.30: Lunch (Provided)

1.30 - 5.30: Afternoon Session (Practical stations) (ENT outpatients area 2)

Participants will rotate through all stations with a mid-afternoon refreshment break.

The following skills will be covered:

Nasendoscopy

1. Supervisor demonstration & laryngeal anatomy walk-through
2. Participants to perform under direct supervision (voluntary)

Ear Examination

1. Otoscopic examination & diagnosis
2. Examination under microscope and microsuction skills

Oral Cavity Examination & Airways

1. Oral examination & Quinsy drainage
2. Surgical Airway - Tracheostomy management & changing tubes
3. Surgical Airway - Emergency anterior neck access

Epistaxis Management

1. Nasal cautery & anterior packing
2. Posterior packing