The Unit offers hands-on and clinical training in endoscopic and head and neck surgery to physicians from Italy and abroad, through courses, congresses and observerships.
Courses and congresses
- Endoscopic Ear Surgery Dissection Course. Two days of dissection in Verona, followed by a day of live surgery in two operating rooms at Modena University Hospital. Topics include endoscopic tympanoplasty, cholesteatoma, stapes surgery, cochlear implantation and facial nerve surgery. Places are limited to 10 participants. Most recent edition: 26 to 28 September 2026.
- Comprehensive Dissection Course on Head and Neck Oncologic Surgery: Modena and Reggio Emilia, 28 February to 3 March 2027. Three days of anatomical dissection (neck dissection, parapharyngeal space, parotidectomy, thyroidectomy, laryngectomy and reconstructive flaps) and a day of live surgery from four simultaneous operating theatres. Places are limited to 10 participants.
- International Workshop on Ear Surgery: Modena, 8 to 10 September 2027. Three-dimensional endoscopic anatomical dissection of the middle ear, with live surgery on the middle ear, implantable devices and stapes, and the lateral skull base.
- Observership: Physicians can join the Unit as observers to follow clinical and surgical activity and gain direct exposure to endoscopic surgery. Applicants choose a main area of interest: ear and lateral skull base; nose, paranasal sinuses and anterior skull base; facial nerve; head and neck; or trachea.
