A survey of ENT undergraduate teaching in the UK

Mayer, A W; Smith, Kristine A.; Carrie, Sean

doi:10.1017/s0022215120000936

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“…When assessing the extent to which UK medical school learning outcomes currently correlate with a suggested undergraduate curriculum provided by Student and Foundation Doctors in Otolaryngology, a survey of two medical schools found that approximately 50 per cent of suggested outcomes were met and the majority did not deliver teaching on common ENT clinical skills. 17 Examples of successful clinical skills teaching include flexible nasolaryngoscopy training with a mannequin 18 and ENT boot camps. 19…”

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Changes in the provision of undergraduate ENT clinical placements across the UK in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic

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Objective This study aimed to report the changes made to ENT placements across the UK in response to the pandemic and their impact on student experience. Methods A questionnaire eliciting how ENT placements were provided before and after coronavirus disease 2019 was disseminated amongst Student and Foundation Doctors in Otolaryngology representatives. Results Thirty-eight respondents from 27 medical schools across the UK completed the survey (response rate of 90 per cent). Twenty-nine of the 38 respondents (76 per cent) reported a change in ENT placements in response to the pandemic. Six of the 38 students (16 per cent) remained satisfied with their ENT placements, as compared to 12 students prior to the pandemic (32 per cent). Conclusion There is considerable variability in how medical schools responded to the pandemic. Most medical schools placed students into smaller groups, with less direct contact in the hospital. These changes resulted in lower student satisfaction. The increased emphasis on e-learning underscores the need for high quality e-learning materials to promote learning throughout the pandemic and in the future.

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Changes in the provision of undergraduate ENT clinical placements across the UK in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic

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“…The run-through scheme increased trainer engagement and gave geographical stability to the trainees, who were well motivated from an early stage in their medical careers. This complements surveys of the attitudes and experiences towards ENT training of students and general practitioners, investigated in recent issues of The Journal , 12,13 and a more historical but seminal article in The Journal on undergraduate ENT education. 14…”

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Acute ENT care, cochlear implantation and otitis media in the pandemic, and ENT post-graduate education

Fisher¹,

Fishman²

2021

J. Laryngol. Otol.

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We reach this month, the first anniversary of the West hearing the word 'lockdown', in relation to a large city in China. Wuhan is an important academic and commercial hub, but was perhaps not a place known to the majority of the world's population until a year ago. We at The Journal of Laryngology & Otology continue to receive a flow of articles in relation to coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) from around the world, and endeavour to publish those that we feel add something new, interesting or useful. Colleagues grapple globally with the basic sciences relevant to ENT, the practicalities and the implications for ENT services during this 'war' with a virus and its aftermath. Despite the increase in article submissions, being a journal editor at the moment is surely more comfortable than being a local or national politician. The Oxford English Dictionary notes a dramatic increase during 2020 of words such as 'circuit breaker', 'lockdown', 'shelter-in-place', 'bubbles', 'face masks' and 'key workers'. The over-use of 'unprecedented' is often mentioned, but the Oxford English Dictionary comments: '…what was genuinely unprecedented this year was the hyper-speed at which the English-speaking world amassed a new collective vocabulary relating to the coronavirus, and how quickly it became, in many instances, a core part of the language'. 1 We approach the anniversary of the coining of 'Covid-19', which first appeared in February 2020. This issue covers the matters of otitis media in the Covid-19 era, from Iran; 2 the feasibility of paediatric cochlear implantation, from the North of England; 3 rapid access (urgent) ENT care, 4 protection during microlaryngoscopy, 5 dysgeusia symptoms 6 and transnasal humidified rapid-insufflation ventilatory exchange ('THRIVE') during the pandemic. 7 This supplements and complements recent articles in The Journal on acute care, by Osborne and colleagues, 8 on ethics, by Leonard, 9 and on smell and taste dysfunction, by Jain and colleagues. 10 The imposed unwelcome revolution in working practices has been superimposed on an evolution of education and training in ENT, not only in the UK, but around the world. Surgical colleges, regulatory bodies (such as the General Medical Council), specialty associations, hospitals, deaneries and universities have all been grappling with this. How to reconcile a need for ENT skills in the general medical workforce (general practitioners and others) and specialists with the barriers imposed by a crowded undergraduate and postgraduate curriculum? Undergraduate and postgraduate curricula are increasingly time-pressured, and a political imperative to increase throughput must be balanced against a professional desire to maintain or improve quality. One such scheme in the UK has been 'run-through' training, in which young doctors make a firm commitment to the specialty (shortly after qualifying in medicine) and are carried right through to independent specialist practice. This issue of The Journal includes a representative survey of a cohort of recent traine...

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“… 2 This has been a common occurrence in the United Kingdom with no marked improvement over the years. 3 Furthermore, this results in the majority of ENT trainees lacking formal teaching on the management of common Accident and Emergency presentations, such as epistaxis, nasal fractures, and upper aerodigestive tract obstruction from foreign body.…”

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The Implementation of Virtual Clinical Skills Teaching in Improving Procedural Confidence in ENT Trainees

Patel¹,

Shah²,

Sood³

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A survey of ENT undergraduate teaching in the UK

Cited by 22 publications

References 25 publications

Changes in the provision of undergraduate ENT clinical placements across the UK in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic

Changes in the provision of undergraduate ENT clinical placements across the UK in response to the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic

Acute ENT care, cochlear implantation and otitis media in the pandemic, and ENT post-graduate education

The Implementation of Virtual Clinical Skills Teaching in Improving Procedural Confidence in ENT Trainees

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