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Seth Brown, MD
May of 2009 saw the first ever ARS fellow's course. This was a huge success with 17 of the incoming fellows convening in Los Angeles for a weekend of sinus, business, and socialization. The fellows had lectures on medical and surgical treatment of sinusitis followed by a dissection lab at the University of Southern California where they were able to work in pairs to hone their surgical skills. Following an evening social, they regrouped to hear about practice opportunities, contract negotiations and the ins and outs of being a rhinologist, including setting up a practice and coding.
Feedback from the participants was overwhelmingly positive with all fellows giving the course the highest possible mark for the overall experience. The course was sponsored by the American Rhinology Society with the curriculum designed with the input of the educational committee.
Faculty representation included: Todd Kingdom, Seth Brown, Winston Vaughan, Rick Chandra, Parul Goyal and Bozena Wrubel. Funding was generously provided by Karl Storz Endoscopy America. Plans are in the works to get additional sponsors in order to repeat this activity for years to come.
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