Learning
Full Fellowship
Short term observation
Single Patient observation
Full Laryngology Fellowship details
Primary goals
Sound: Given that voice is “sound” and hoarseness is a “change in sound quality”, the fellow will learn to train their ear to hear and describe changes in sound. Those audible changes will be mapped to visual laryngeal endoscopic findings.
Three part model of laryngeal diagnosis: The fellow will learn Robert Bastian’s diagnostic model: how to elicit an appropriate vocal history; listen and record sound impairment and; operate and visualize laryngeal movement with endoscopy and combine these three approaches into a single, accurate diagnostic algorithm.
Experience: The fellowship’s goal is for participation in more than 100 hospital surgical procedures and be primary surgeon when skills allow. These will include feminization laryngoplasty, medialization laryngoplasty, microlaryngoscopies of benign and malignant lesions, denervation-reinnervation laryngeal surgery and other procedures.