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Exposure to otolaryngology is currently minimal in the UK undergraduate medical curriculum. This may lead to difficulties in attracting graduates into higher ENT surgical training and in ensuring a reasonable standard of ENT knowledge amongst primary care practitioners. A recent innovation, of which many ENT units may be unaware, is the introduction to the undergraduate curriculum of 'student-selected components'. Like the traditional elective, this allows students to undertake an attachment to a speciality and department of their choice. Units which do not regularly teach medical students but which have a welcoming and enthusiastic approach to undergraduate training may well be ideal hosts. This paper introduces the concepts underlying student-selected components, outlines the preparation required and offers a template for such an attachment, for which ENT is ideally suited. © 2006 JLO (1984) Limited.
Author(s): Newbegin RM, Rhodes JC, Flood LM, Richardson HC
Publication type: Note
Publication status: Published
Journal: Journal of Laryngology and Otology
Year: 2007
Volume: 121
Issue: 8
Pages: 783-785
Print publication date: 01/08/2007
ISSN (print): 0022-2151
ISSN (electronic): 1748-5460
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0022215106004191
DOI: 10.1017/S0022215106004191
