The ENT run through pilot: a questionnaire survey of 23 trainees

Heward, Elliot; Kumar, B. Nirmal

doi:10.1017/s0022215121000153

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“…2 Successful candidates held a median core surgical interview rank of 27 (out of 1883 applicants interviewed), highlighting the competitive nature of this programme. 3 The pilot programme has now been stopped and otolaryngology no longer offers run-through training, with the last offers being made in the 2021/2022 application cycle. This decision has been taken by the Joint Committee on Surgical Training as a result of core surgical trainees being disadvantaged by insufficient ST3 post availability.…”

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Building a competitive application: exploring the entry routes and educational choices of otolaryngology higher surgical trainees in the UK

Patel,

Dusu,

Siddiqui

et al. 2023

J. Laryngol. Otol.

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Background This cross-sectional study investigates the educational background and entry routes of otolaryngology higher surgical trainees in the UK. Method A survey was disseminated to trainees through training programme directors and 60 responses were received. Results Most trainees decided to pursue otolaryngology early in their training, with 50 per cent making the decision four or more years before applying for a higher surgical traineeship. Similarly, 68.3 per cent of trainees undertook otolaryngology-themed core surgical training, while two-thirds had an otolaryngology rotation during their foundation training. Most trainees (86.7 per cent) were accepted into core surgical training on their first attempt, and 71.7 per cent gained entry to higher surgical training on their first attempt. Conclusion The findings highlight the importance of early exposure to otolaryngology and the pursuit of themed core surgical training programmes for building a competitive application. However, unsuccessful first attempts at core surgical training or higher surgical training should not discourage candidates from pursuing a career in otolaryngology.

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Building a competitive application: exploring the entry routes and educational choices of otolaryngology higher surgical trainees in the UK

Patel,

Dusu,

Siddiqui

et al. 2023

J. Laryngol. Otol.

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“…3 This paper will be of very great interest to anyone who is planning a career in ENT, and is the latest in a long history of training-related publications in the journal. 4,5 Potential ENT surgeons need to know how to build up a successful portfolio, how competitive the process is, whether failure at the first attempt is a disaster, the role of higher degrees, the cost of building a portfolio, the relevance of courses and when in their early years to obtain experience in ENT. These questions all have answers that can change radically over time as the rules change, and the flow of candidates and number of available posts change.…”

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Fisher,

Fishman

2024

J. Laryngol. Otol.

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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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The ENT run through pilot: a questionnaire survey of 23 trainees

Cited by 3 publications

References 4 publications

Building a competitive application: exploring the entry routes and educational choices of otolaryngology higher surgical trainees in the UK

Building a competitive application: exploring the entry routes and educational choices of otolaryngology higher surgical trainees in the UK

‘Best paper’ prize winners for 2023 and in the current issue: entry to UK ENT specialist training

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

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