The UMASS Memorial Medical Center is a 600+ bed, tertiary care, level 1 trauma center located in Worcester, Massachusetts, approximately 40 miles west of Boston. The Department of Otolaryngology consists of 3 full time otolaryngologists, but our affiliation is specifically with Dr. Daniel Lee, Director of Otology and Neurotology. Residents spend two to three days per week with Dr. Lee in the Otology clinic and in the operating room participating in Otology and Neurotology cases. The operative case load is roughly 20-25 cases per month consisting of the full range of tympanomastoid surgery, stapes surgery, cochlear implantation (2-3 per month), acoustic neuroma surgery and other skull base lesions.