This course is designed to introduce students early in the pre-clinical years to otolaryngology-head and neck surgery (ENT) in the setting of the LKSOM mission of excellence in education, research and patient care. Students will expand their knowledge base through elective lectures and skills sessions. Group sessions to include case based learning and practical labs will solidify clinical and interpersonal skills. By interacting with the department chair and other motivated upperclassmen, residents, and faculty, students have the opportunity to model professional behavior and receive feedback regarding wellness and professional development. The ENT specialty is complex and closely linked with other departments and ancillary staff the elective also so serves as an ideal vehicle to teach systems-based practice and interprofessional collaboration.

This elective will allow students to gain exposure to the specialty and the types of health conditions experienced by patients seen by providers in this specialty as healthcare team members.

In this clinical elective, students will evaluate new patients in the office setting with General Otolaryngology practitioners. The emphasis will be on the outpatient and office-based otolaryngology treatments and procedures. Occasionally students will accompany patients they are following to the operating room. Additionally, there are opportunities to critically review peer-reviewed publications and attend conference and grand rounds.

In this clinical elective, students are integrated into the Otolaryngology team. The student is actively involved in the care of both hospitalized patients and those presenting on an outpatient basis. The student will be given an assigned schedule for the duration of the rotation to ensure exposure to a variety of practice settings, otolaryngology subspecialties and teaching styles.

This clinical elective offers a focus on head and neck oncology. Students will be exposed to organ preservation techniques, ablative surgery, microvascular reconstruction, robotic surgery, endoscopic surgery, and skull base surgery. Students will also be introduced to the role of chemotherapy and radiation therapy in head and neck cancers as well as post treatment rehabilitation. Students will participate in care in various settings including outpatient, rounding in the hospital, and in-patient surgery.

This courses was created in light of the COVID19 Pandemic to give 4th year medical students applying to Otolaryngology more exposure to the field and to strengthen their applications.

Otolaryngology/ENT Sub-I satisfies the sub-I requirement for 4th year. Students will participate on the ENT service, in both the inpatient and outpatient setting. They will take on the role of an intern, including seeing consults, following patients, seeing patients in clinic and participating in OR cases. They will develop assessment and plans for the patients they are seeing.