Competency-based medical education (CBME) is an outcomes-focused approach to educating professionals that will be central future efforts improve resident training in otolaryngology. The transition CBME for otolaryngology the United States require development of specialty-specific assessments and benchmarks, financial administrative support implementation, professional faculty learners, cooperat...

1 Laboratory for Advanced Brain Signal Processing, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN 2-1, Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan 2 Laboratory for Mathematical Neuroscience, Brain Science Institute, RIKEN 2-1, Hirosawa, Wako-shi, Saitama 351-0198, Japan 3 Department of Otolaryngology, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University 54, Kawara-cho, Shogoin, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8507, Japan 4 Depar...

OBJECTIVE To assess health literacy in an adult tertiary care otolaryngology clinic population and to explore potential determinants of inadequate health literacy. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional study. SETTING Tertiary care otolaryngology clinic. SUBJECTS AND METHODS The study population included all adult patients treated at 3 of Stanford University's adult otolaryngology clinic sites betw...

OBJECTIVES/HYPOTHESIS To determine whether there is an association between the geographic location of an applicant's undergraduate school, medical school, and residency program among matched otolaryngology residency applicants. STUDY DESIGN Observational. METHODS Otolaryngology residency program applications to our institution from 2009 to 2013 were analyzed. The geographic location of each...

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From Rhinology and Skull Base Surgery, Division of Otolaryngology, George Washington University Medical Center, Washington, DC; George Washington School of Medicine, Washington, DC; Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York; Department of Neurological Surgery, Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, New York; and the Department of Neu...

Endoscopes are used in a variety of medical specialties, from otolaryngology to obstetrics and gynecology and even gastroenterology. Doctors use endoscopes in order to get a better glimpse of the internal linings of the human body. In otolaryngology, the doctor places the tip of the scope into the nose and starts in the nasal cavity. From here, the doctor pushes the scope further into the patie...