This is a student's ENT Undergraduate Curriculum, it is an introductory two weeks clinical rotation offered to fifth year medical students, which describes the skills and objectives that should be achieved as a ENT student.
This curriculum aims to provide the students a comprehensive overview of the specialty of Otolaryngology. They will gain a better understanding of Otolaryngology as a surgical specialty and learn about patient care they will encounter in general practice, especially as a primary care physician as many outpatient visits include ENT concerns.
The learning priorities for this clinical rotation are to gain insight and understanding of the most common presentations and conditions of the otolaryngology cases to make the student more competent to recognize these common ENT conditions through an excellent clinical exposure by joining the highly qualified Otolaryngologist in their clinic, as well as the ENT senior resident. It is anticipated that all students will have opportunities to enhance their skills in history taking and clinical examination. This will emphasize their recognition of symptoms and signs and formulation of an accurate differential diagnosis which is important to focus on the primary care management of common ENT conditions and to understand when a patient should be referred to secondary care.
The students also required to present seminars that cover most of the ENT clinical conditions, these seminars are supervised by the consultants and the students should be actively involved in these clinical discussions, as part of their evaluation is based on these seminars presentation and discussion. The students are anticipated to participate actively in the Morning report, bedside teaching.
The end rotation exam is every two weeks for each group or every 4 weeks for two groups together.
