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Why and how to assess digital literacy of older adults with hearing loss

4 July 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Assessing digital literacy in older adults with hearing loss is vital for equitable care. The new DL-2Q tool quickly measures such skills, ensuring tailored support and better outcomes. Digital literacy and its importance When an older patient walks into your...

Empathic consulting: elevating audiology through connection

7 January 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
A new course in empathic consulting helps audiologists deepen patient trust and engagement, focusing on emotional insight to improve care quality and consultation outcomes. Leightons and The Hearing Care Partnership have developed an innovative course focused on empathic consulting for...

Why, and how, audiologists should measure language ability: introducing AudiCloze

4 September 2025 | | ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Speech and Language Therapy
A cloze test uses missing ______ to assess language ability.How can audiologists measure ______ to help assess listening difficulties? Language ability and listening difficulties While it seems like stepping onto someone else’s turf, there is a strong need for audiologists...

COVID-19: UCT-Africa Virtual ENT transcends academic silos

9 September 2020 | | ENTA - ENT
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a global catastrophe with far-reaching consequences felt across many fronts around the world. One such aspect is the training of the future generation of ENT surgeons. With routine elective activity curtailed, academic conferences cancelled, and...

Expanding access to cochlear implants in India: a government-funded journey towards inclusive hearing healthcare

4 September 2025 | | ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics, ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
India’s state-funded cochlear implant programmes are transforming hearing care, improving access for children and adults across socioeconomic divides. India boasts a demographic landscape where a substantial portion of its population comprises children, and they play a pivotal role in shaping...

8th Scottish International Head and Neck Conference

13 September 2025 | ENTA - Head & Neck
Anamya Bhatia and Disha Yadav, 4th year medical students, University of Dundee The 2025 edition of the Scottish International Head and Neck Conference showcased a virtual, interactive and highly educational event for delegates. This year’s conference focused on 'Advanced Airway...

The Airway Intervention Registry: Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis (AIR: RRP) data collection

1 September 2018 | | ENTA - General
Laryngeal papillomatosis remains a frustratingly difficult condition to treat. Adam Donne and Steven Powell tells us about a collaborative project aiming to enhance patient care. The first UK Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis registry opened in April 2018 through the AIR (Airway...

What’s happened since the European position paper on nose and sinus tumours?

1 May 2017 | | ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
The management of malignant sinonasal tumours has gone through radical changes in recent years. Prof Valerie Lund gives us an update based on her upcoming talk at IFOS. In 2010 when we published the European position paper on ‘endoscopic management...

Pinnaplasty for prominent ears

9 September 2020 | | ENTA - Paediatrics
Pinnaplasty is a challenging yet rewarding procedure for which many different techniques have been described. In this article the authors describe their favoured technique, including the important postoperative care. Prominent ears can be a source of significant psychological distress in...

Comparing AutoREM accuracy to NAL-NL2 targets: real patient data and simulator verification

7 January 2026 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult
A new study examines how accurately AutoREMs from four major brands hit NAL-NL2 targets, revealing strengths, limits and clinical implications. Automatic real ear measurements (AutoREMs) have emerged as a promising way to make hearing aid fittings faster and more consistent....

Enhancing performance and well-being for surgeons: the science of life coaching

3 September 2024 |
Life coaching has emerged as a powerful personal and professional development tool, particularly for individuals navigating high-stakes environments. Life coaching emphasises self-awareness, self-management and self-efficacy, including establishing desired outcomes, goal setting and developing skills and action plans to achieve them....

ENT and evidence-based medicine: How do they benefit each other?

1 November 2016 | | ENTA - General
How do we assess evidence, and how should ENT surgeons use EBM? Evidence-based medicine (EBM) is the practice of medicine based upon high quality scientific research. There are several formal definitions of EBM, the most widely quoted being that of...