This is a global Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery webinar. This landmark event is the first of its’ kind, hosted by three universities on three continents with two straight days of content spanning every time zone. Otolaryngology Updates: 48 Hours of Live is presented via ZOOM by the University of California Irvine (UCI), Asan Medical Center in Seoul, Korea (AMC), and Universitätsklinikum Hamburg-Eppendorf- University of Hamburg (UKE). This is an online continuing medical education course aimed at providing contemporary and relevant content for the general otolaryngologist in community practice. “Otolaryngology Updates” is a course that is in its 50th year having started under the late Dr. Leslie Bernstein.
We have divided the two days into 16 three-hour “blocks”. Each block has a talk from each one of the following fields: Head and Neck Surgery, Otology, Facial Plastic Surgery, Rhinology, Laryngology, and Pediatric Otolaryngology.
You can watch it in the morning, afternoon, or evening. Login and logoff whenever you want. There will be over 100 speakers, If you are North American you have the option to obtain CME credits (additional cost) for up to 44 hours.
We have divided the two days into 16 three-hour “blocks”. Each block has a talk from each one of the following fields: Head and Neck Surgery, Otology, Facial Plastic Surgery, Rhinology, Laryngology, and Pediatric Otolaryngology.
You can watch it in the morning, afternoon, or evening. Login and logoff whenever you want. There will be over 100 speakers, If you are North American you have the option to obtain CME credits (additional cost) for up to 44 hours.
When
The event will take place February 23rd, 24th, and 25th (Friday to Sunday), and will go around the clock, providing our participants with 48 hours of around-the-clock contemporary otolaryngology content. It will start Friday 4 PM Los Angeles (GMT-8), 7 PM New York (GMT-5), 1 AM Berlin (Saturday, GMT+1), and 9 AM Seoul (Saturday, GMT+9). We opted for the 48-hour continuous broadcast as we know surgeons will watch at times when it is personally convenient, and that somewhere in the globe, the sun is always shining.
Please be careful to note the time zone differences. We will have great content at any hour of the day.
Where
This is a webinar hosted on the ZOOM platform. The “mission control” of this event will rotate between Irvine, California, Seoul, and Hamburg.
Who should attend
Lectures will be aimed at the otolaryngologist in general practice, though about 20% of the content is advanced. This continuous live webinar will be globally broadcast using the ZOOM platform, and registration will be provided free of charge to any physician, nurse, resident, or student. For those in the USA who want CME credits, there will be a modest fee and over 44 hour of CME is available. All course faculty will speak for 25 minutes followed by a short 3-5 minute moderated question-and-answer period.
History
The Otolaryngology Updates course was founded by Dr. Leslie Bernstein over 50 years ago and was for several decades in Hawaii. 15 years ago, Dr. Bernstein “transferred” course management to Dr. Roger Crumley and Dr. Brian Wong at UCI. They moved it to the Coachella Valley (Palm Spring-Rancho Mirage-Palm Desert) and created a golf centered CME event and have had numerous guest speakers including the late Heinz Stammberger, Richard Chole, Jim Netterville, Peter Belafsky, Ken Grundfast, Mickey Stewart, Shan Baker, Stil Kountakis, Gene Tardy, Carol Bradford, Wayne Larrabee, Robin Cotton, Tucker Woodson, David Kennedy, Ted Cook, Dean Toriumi, Jon Aviv, the late Wolfgang Draf, Scott Manning, Greg Postma, Mike Paparella, Brad Welling, Al Merati, Peter Hwang, Stephan Park, Alex Chiu, the late John Niparko, Neil Futran, Bruce Ganz, Charles Cummings, Randall Weber, Brent Senior, Tom Wang, Sanjay Parikh, Steve Yoelin, the late Richard Goode, and many others be part of our distinguished guest faculty. This year, the course goes international.
