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10/27/2019  |   8:00 AM - 10:00 AM   |  Ventana Ballroom C

Strategies and Methods for Execution of Traveling Temporal Bone Dissection Courses

Project EAR is an ongoing humanitarian effort to help those (particularly the poor and underserved) in developing countries who suffer from hearing loss and ear disease. This is accomplished through medical, surgical, and audiological outreach missions combined with patient education and training of local physicians and medical personnel. While Project EAR is undoubtedly concerned with the expeditious treatment of those suffering from hearing loss and ear disease, we realize that a lasting effect from our efforts will only come with the training of young physicians and other healthcare workers. We have been actively involved in the training of Dominican otolaryngology residents for several years. This has primarily consisted of observational and hands-on teaching in the operating room during our humanitarian missions and also at the residency training hospital in the capital city of Santo Domingo. In the United States, much of the learning of surgery of the ear and temporal bone is accomplished through repeated practice using cadaveric specimens in the temporal bone lab. However, in a developing country like the Dominican Republic, these educational experiences are limited by access to equipment, cadaveric temporal bones, and otologists to provide instruction. Since 2017, Project EAR has completed 4 temporal bone dissection courses for otolaryngology residents and practicing otolaryngologists in the Dominican Republic. Local surgeons enthusiastically embraced this educational opportunity and look forward to future courses. Strategies and methods related to supply gathering, shipping, lab setup, and curriculum are presented with the hope that these courses can be provided throughout the developing world.

• Understand the importance of hands-on learning opportunities for the development of otologic surgical skills
• Gain knowledge of how to offer temporal bone courses in developing countries

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Edward Dodson (POC,Primary Presenter,Co-Presenter), 1. OSU Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery LLC 2. Project EAR, edward.dodson@osumc.edu;
Dr. Dodson is a Professor of Otology, Neurotology & Cranial Base Surgery in the Department of Otolaryngology at The Ohio State University. A faculty member since 1996, Dr. Dodson completed all of his education (undergraduate through Neurotology Fellowship) at the University of Virginia. Dr. Dodson also has adjunct faculty appointments in the Department of Speech and Hearing Science and the Department of Neurosurgery. In 1995, Dr. Dodson joined his mentor, Paul Lambert, on the inaugural Project EAR medical mission to the Dominican Republic, providing hearing healthcare to the underserved population in the country and educating local doctors and healthcare workers. Since then he has led 41 of the 50 Project EAR trips, and has served as president of the organization since it became an official non-profit organization in 2000. In 2006 Dr. Dodson helped establish the first (and only) cochlear implant program in the Dominican Republic.

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Kevin Zhan (Co-Presenter), The Ohio State University, Kevin.Zhan@osumc.edu;
Dr. Zhan is a PGY-3 Otolaryngology resident at The Ohio State University, particularly interested in Otology & Neurotology. He was born in Beijing, China and immigrated to the DC area at age four. He studied literature and biochemistry at Virginia Tech for undergraduate and medicine at the University of Virginia. He completed a research fellowship at the Medical University of South Carolina prior to starting residency. His most extensive international medical experience was a ten-week collaboration with the National University of Rwanda for a medical anthropology study that he designed as a medical student. With a Rwandan medical student, he interviewed rural shamans and community members to survey health understanding and ethnophysiologic barriers to widely-accessible medical care. This project was delivered to the Rwandan health minister and helped expand an understanding of traditional health beliefs, how unforeseen cultural barriers to western medicine exist despite universal medical coverage at the time.

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