Even for the top medical school students in the country, an otolaryngology residency is one of the most difficult to land, and nearly 40% of applicants don’t match.

Cheyanne M. Silver, MD, uses her art as a creative outlet and an emotional release valve.
The answer lies in three domains: our professional duties to the patient, our ethical obligations to the patient, and our fiduciary responsibilities to society.
In our otolaryngologist supply chain, no organizational negative feedback mechanism exists to apply supply controls.
Today’s residency programs are developing recruitment tools with an eye toward achieving high-performing residency classes whose trainees are a suitable fit for their programs’ culture and mission.
Our specialty was initially worried about whether we would have enough otolaryngologists when we perhaps should have been worrying about whether we might have too many.