In 2024, we are planning on holding the following education sessions:
Practical Emergency Eye and ENT Skills Workshops
In 2024, The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital will be holding the following practical workshops:
Eye & ENT Skills Workshop (for Emergency Trainees) – Saturday 4 May 2024.
Advanced Eye & ENT Skills Workshop (for FACEMs only) – Saturday 26 October 2024.
In these workshops there will be small group instruction and demonstration by Specialists. The sessions will be hands on and will be very instructive in a supportive environment.
Doctors working in an Emergency Department need to have a high level of skill in assessing and diagnosing ENT and eye presentations. The workshop will include practical skills including:
- ENT examination
- Use of tuning forks, pneumatic otoscopy and flexible nasoendoscopy
- Removal of ear nose and throat foreign bodies
- Management of epistaxis and management of vertigo
- Practice of eyelid eversion
- Measurement of corneal depth and size of lesions using slit lamp
- Technique for removal of eye foreign body
- Assessment of the anterior chamber
- Measurement of intraocular pressure
- Testing for relative afferent pupil defect and
- Retinal examination.
The Advanced workshop for FACEMs will allow CPD procedural skills sign off for ENT and Eyes.
You can register your interest in attending the workshop here.
As this workshop is limited with numbers, and priority given to FACEMs/Emergency Registrars, you will be contacted if you have been allocated a place at the event.
If successful, you will receive an email with the link to Humanitix with further information on payment to secure your place. Payment must be made within 10 business days or your position will be allocated to the next person on the wait list.
Annual two-day Eye and ENT Emergency Seminar
The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital’s two-day Eye and ENT Emergency Seminar is an annual event, occurring in September each year. In 2024, the seminar will be held on the mornings of Thursday 5 September and Friday 6 September 2024. We will advise closer to the time whether these sessions will be held virtually or in person.
The seminar offers the opportunity for participants to draw upon the expertise of our colleagues in Ophthalmology and ENT surgery as their specialties relate to our practice of Emergency Medicine.
Registrations for the event will open in June 2024.
Further enquiries:
If you would like to be added to the mailing list for information on future events, please contact Kerryn Baker on email: kerryn.baker@eyeandear.org.au or by telephone: 9929 8528
