Mentored Learning Course in Vertigo & Balance Disorders

By Dr. Srinivas Dorasala

Your Mentor

He holds a MS in ENT from JNMC, Belgaum. Apart from being a ENT Surgeon, he is a trained vestibular specialist. Over the last 12 years, he has worked at leading hospitals in India and abroad. He has published several papers in national and international journals and delivered lectures in a number of national conferences. His core area of strength lies in understanding technology and it’s possibilities and mapping the same to meet unmet medical needs in a cost effective and innovative manner.

Dr Srinivas Dorasala is leading faculty of all vertigo conferences across the world. He has trained and empowered more than 500+ ENT, Neurologist and audiologists.

Dr. Srinivas Dorosala

Curriculum

for ENT/Neurology

Week 1

Module Release: September 15, 2023

Mentoring Session Slots: September 23 and 24, 2023

Quiz Submission: September 25, 2023

Anatomy

Gross orientation

Key points of semicircular canals

Hair cell morphology, topology and morphological polarisation

Nerve supply and blood supply

Brain stem anatomy

VOR Pathway

Extraocular muscles

Week 2

Module Release: September 22, 2023

Mentoring Session Slots: September 30 and October 1, 2023

Quiz Submission: October 2, 2023

Physiology

The angular VOR

The tilt VOR

The translational VOR

Core laws and principles

Concept of velocity storage

The neural integrator

Semicircular canal-otolith interactions

Cervical and vestibular interactions

Why should the eyes move?

Action potential and factors influencing nerve excitability

Week 3

Module Release: September 29, 2023

Mentoring Session Slots: October 7 and 8, 2023

Quiz Submission: October 9, 2023

History

Vestibular Symptom

Non vestibular symptoms for the vestibular clinician

Diagnostic criteria of Barany Society for various disorders

SOSTONED approach for reaching a diagnosis

Week 4

Module Release: October 6, 2023

Mentoring Session Slots: October 14 and 15, 2023

Quiz Submission: October 16, 2023

Clinical Examination

The physical examination techniques and interpretation for vestibular clinician

Pathophysiology of clinical vestibular syndromes

Nystagmus direction in peripheral vestibular disease

Nystagmus direction in central vestibular disorders

Week 5

Module Release: October 13, 2023 (This module is for two weeks. Mentoring session at the end of one week. Another one week to revise and submit the quiz)

Mentoring Session Slots: October 21 and 22, 2023

Quiz Submission: October 30, 2023

Positional Vertigo

Neuroanatomy of angular VOR pathways for all semicircular canals

Observed nystagmus patterns for each semicircular canal involvement

Positional tests and interpretation

Positional maneuvers

Week 6

Module Release: October 27, 2023

Mentoring Session Slots: November 4 and 5, 2023

Quiz Submission: November 6, 2023

Videonystagmography

Technology and conventions

Tests and methods of performance

Nystagmus: How to describe

Ocular motors tests: Detailed performance and analysis

VOR suppression test

The clinical chair rotation test

Week 7

Module Release: November 3, 2023

Mentoring Session Slots: November 11 and 12, 2023

Quiz Submission: November 13, 2023

Index cases

Cases contributed by leading vestibular practitioners in Neurotology from across the country.

History, Examination, Findings and Treatment protocols of key diagnoses

Pharmacotherapy

Week 8

Module Release: November 10, 2023

Mentoring Session Slots: November 18 and 19, 2023

Quiz Submission: November 20, 2023

Rehabilitation

Pathophysiological basis

Assessment protocols

Physical rehabilitation

Instrumental rehabilitation

Week 9

Module Release: November 17, 2023

Mentoring Session Slots: November 25 and 26, 2023

Quiz Submission: November 27, 2023

Rehabilitation

vHIT

Rotational Vestibular Assessment

VEMP

ECochG

Posturography

Caloric test

Week 10

Module Release: November 24, 2023

Mentoring Session Slots: December 2 and 3, 2023

Quiz Submission: December 4, 2023

Eye movement neurology

Detailed considerations of saccades, pursuit, optokinetic, vergence and vestibular eye movements.