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Shooting for Gold: ENT surgery and the Commonwealth Games

What are the secrets to success in your career, sports and life in general? Sharp-shooter Parag Patel hits the bullseye again. I write this article following a wave of summer sporting brilliance, from the record Great Britain 67 medal haul...

Matthew Yung and Chris Raine Travelling Scholarship to Iowa

I was the grateful recipient of the 2020 Matthew Yung and Chris Raine scholarship, although due to the Covid pandemic and its aftermath I could not take up the opportunity until June this year. I chose to visit the otology and neurotology department at Iowa University Hospitals, in particular to meet with Bruce Gantz, an early adopter of bony obliteration of the mastoid, himself inspired by the work of Ulf Mercke of Sweden who developed this technique in the 1980s.

Training reinvented: NHS staff embrace free VR education platform

A groundbreaking VR platform is transforming NHS training, offering immersive, cost-free simulation experiences to boost skills across multiple clinical fields. ENT is a specialty that demands precision, rapid decision-making and familiarity with complex anatomy, especially in emergency contexts such as...

Temporal Bone Dissection Guide - Second Edition

In the second edition of this popular dissection guide the authors have raised the bar even higher, expanding on the infratemporal and middle fossa dissection guide. There is also a brief description of the use of endoscopes in middle ear...

Motor learning: better knowing how, not how well

Motor learning is described as the ability to perform a motor skill due to practice and/or experience. Research on interventions to enhance limb motor skills can be influenced through the amount, distribution, variability and schedule of practice as well as...

A match made in heaven: being a good supervisor

Supervision is a core component of clinical training for all healthcare professionals. Most colleges advocate supervisors be trained in the skill of supervision, but this is not standard practice. Often supervisors rely on the skills they learn from their own...

UCL Ear Institute: Paediatric Assessment

UCL Ear Education CPD courses We specialise in providing training programmes for ENT medics, audiologists and associated health-care professionals. Our courses are ENT UK (RCP), BAA and/or BSHAA accredited. Our CPD courses are delivered by our in-house experts, including world...

UCL Ear Institute: Advanced Adult Rehabilitation

UCL Ear Education CPD courses We specialise in providing training programmes for ENT medics, audiologists and associated health-care professionals. Our courses are ENT UK (RCP), BAA and/or BSHAA accredited. Our CPD courses are delivered by our in-house experts, including world...

Earlier intervention to correct anosmia?

This is an interesting study aimed to determine the timing for successful surgical intervention in improving the sense of smell in patients with chronic rhinosinusitis with nasal polyps (CRSwNP). A total of 86 CRSwNP patients with loss of smell and...

Superior semicircular canal dehiscence: transmastoid obliteration

Sometimes patients with dizziness turn out to have slightly more unusual causes of their problem. Thomas Milner and Georgios Kontorinis describe their technique for managing patients who have a diagnosis of superior canal dehiscence as an identified cause of their...

Show me the video: modelling for behaviour change

It is estimated that 2% of people in the United States have autism. The DSM 5th edition defines the autism spectrum diagnosis criteria as when an individual has social communication difficulties, as well as restrictive and repetitive behaviours. One intervention...

SCOTLAND preoperative tympanomastoid CT temporal bone mnemonic system

Learning how to interpret a CT scan of the temporal bones can be a daunting task, especially for a head and neck surgeon like me! However, to make life easier, the authors have devised a useful system to help cover...