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Student-selected components: Bringing more ENT into the undergraduate curriculum

Lookup NU author(s): Helen Richardson

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Abstract

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.

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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

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