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Hunting for the zorse - hybrid learning in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic

3 July 2023 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Covid-19
Emma Watts, a West Midlands ENT Registrar and Digital Fellow, gives a witty and concise recollection of ENT training during COVID, and predicts how hybrid learning may be here to stay. *A zorse is the offspring of a zebra stallion...

The impact of simulation on ENT training

3 July 2023 | | ENTA - ENT
Surgical training is constantly developing to improve ENT surgeons’ technical and non-technical skills. In this article, Joshua Whittaker, an ENT Registrar and ENT Simulation Fellow at University Hospitals Birmingham, describes the rise of simulation training. Simulation is the recreation of...

Young CEORL-HNS: empowering the future of otorhinolaryngology

8 January 2024 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Otology, ENTA - Paediatrics, ENTA - Skull Base Surgery, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
Young CEORL-HNS is a subgroup within CEORL-HNS which encompasses new specialists in ENT within training and up to the first decade or so as an accredited specialist. Giuditta Mannelli is the current president and is a head and neck surgeon...

Robert Vincent: otologie sans frontières

3 May 2024 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
Chris Aldren speaks to French ear surgeon Robert Vincent who’s particularly proud of forming a global otologist network providing free resources for education and patient care worldwide. Robert Vincent Robert, who have been your otological mentors? I did my initial...

Jameel Muzaffar, Anne Schilder and James O’Hara

4 July 2024 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Laryngology / Swallowing / Voice, ENTA - Otology
In a follow-up to the interview with Anne Schilder back in 2016*, Jameel Muzaffar speaks to Anne and to James O’Hara about the current research landscape in ENT in the UK. *Banerjee A. In conversation with Professor Anne Schilder. ENT...

The European School of Interdisciplinary Tinnitus

1 May 2018 | | ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
Scientific careers in tinnitus are expanding beyond any single discipline to embrace interdisciplinary collaboration and knowledge exchange. Natalia Trpchevska and Christopher R Cederroth present an overview of an innovative EU-funded training programme called the ‘European School of Interdisciplinary Tinnitus’, and...

The costs of applying to ENT specialty training

22 February 2021 | | ENTA - ENT
Training doctors is costly. In the UK, medical school costs an estimated £230,000 made up of £163,000 in government grants and £65,000 in student loans [1]. Repayment of the student loan begins once the graduate earns above a certain threshold,...

Identity: does it affect the training experience?

4 September 2023 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Auditory Implants
Our identity can be influenced by many factors, both internal and external to ourselves. One may say that if one has not had to consider one’s own identity at any time, perhaps that in itself is a privilege? Equally, one...

Illuminating ear education: building interactive models to enhance inner ear understanding

6 November 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Vestibular Disorders
Understanding the anatomy and function of the inner ear, particularly the vestibular apparatus and cochlea, is fundamental to audiology and otolaryngology education. However, the complex geometry and intricate functional relationships of these structures challenge us to find clear ways to...

Measuring the pitch and loudness of tinnitus

24 May 2017 | | ENTA - Tinnitus, ENTA - Audiology - Adult
Matching the characteristics of tinnitus Many researchers and clinicians have explored the subjective nature of tinnitus by asking people with tinnitus to adjust a sound so that it matches their tinnitus in some way. This can be useful both for...

Why screen for hearing loss in adults?

14 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
Introduction Hearing loss affects over 10 million people in the UK – one in six of the population. Of over 50-year-olds 41.7% are estimated to have some form of hearing loss. This rises to 71.1% of over 70-year-olds, over half...

Could social isolation be a factor in the link between hearing loss and dementia?

26 June 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Neurotology
In 1802, Beethoven wrote to his brothers Carl and Johann about his hearing loss: “You men who think or say that I am malevolent, stubborn, or misanthropic, how greatly do you wrong me. You do not know the secret cause...