General info
Orsi Academy offers a 2-day course in Robotic Transoral Surgery for surgeons with basic robotic skills who want to master the robotic surgery approach in transoral procedures.
Proctored and one-to-one teaching by top-expert Dr. Tom Vauterin!
The 2-day masterclass consists of 2 full days of hands-on training on human cadaveric and live porcine tissue at Orsi Academy.
What you will learn
- To comprehensively cover procedural skills in robot-assisted transoral procedures.
Faculty
Program
Welcome, coffee & introduction
Lecture on objectives in transoral robotic surgery
- Robotic-assisted: why?
- Patient selection
- Patient positioning
- Robotic set-up
- Instruments and accessory considerations
- Anatomy
- Dissection
- Tongue base resection
- Managing complications
- Injury management
- Combined procedures
Change into scrubs
Hands-on session on live animal tissue
- Training model: anesthetized porcine model
- Robotic-assisted tongue base surgery
- Surgical set-up (FK-WO retractor)
- Robotic installation and anatomical tongue base exposure
- Tongue base resection and reconstruction
Lunch at the Orsi restaurant
Continue hands-on session on live animal tissue
- Anatomical dissection
- Haemostasis
- Reconstruction
- Vascular injury control
End of day 1
Faculty dinner in Ghent city center
Lecture on objectives in transoral robotic surgery
- Case discussion
- Pitfalls in robotic surgery
- Learning curve in the transoral approach
- Anatomy of the head and neck from the inside
- Lateral oropharyngectomy
Change into scrubs
Hands-on session on human cadaver tissue
- Robotic-assisted tongue base surgery
- Surgical set-up (FK-WO retractor)
- Robotic installation and anatomical tongue base exposure
- Tongue base resection and reconstruction
Lunch at the Orsi restaurant
Continue hands-on session on human cadaver tissue
- Continue tongue base approach
- Lateral oropharyngectomy
- Supraglottic laryngectomy
- Anatomical dissection
- Reconstruction
End of the course
Prices
Standard fee (incl. VAT)
Since this training is held in Belgium and Orsi Academy is the event organiser, Belgian VAT (currently 21%) must be charged on the participation fee, regardless of the participant’s country of establishment or VAT registration status.
The reverse charge mechanism does not apply to admission to physical events. Therefore, even EU VAT-registered businesses are subject to Belgian VAT for in-person training taking place in Belgium.
Standard fee 2026
Incl. of VAT
Resources
Robotic transoral surgery 2026
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HOLIDAY CLOSURE NOTICE
Please note that no course applications will be reviewed or processed between December 16 and January 4 due to our holiday closure.
You may still submit your application during this period, but approval or rejection will only resume once our team returns on January 5.
Thank you for your understanding!
