Successful otolaryngologists acknowledge the steep learning curve they encountered when making the transition from residency to full-time practice and share lesson learned.



It’s critical that otolaryngologists become familiar with, educated about, and unafraid of AI to prepare for the inevitable integration of AI applications into their practices.

Otolaryngologists Open West Africa Institute for Special Surgery (WAISS) to Improve Access to Care

Value-Based Compensation model can be considered advantageous because it evens the playing field between proceduralists and non-proceduralists, but defining value and implementing VBC can be challenging.

New standardized otolaryngology curriculum’s goal is to deliver a comprehensive and appropriately detailed curriculum that will help direct self-learning and serve as a jumping-off point for residency programs’ didactic learning.

A successful thesis advances medical knowledge in our specialty in a meaningful way. It is not an obstacle; it is an opportunity to clearly state who we are as academic difference-makers, an opportunity to rigorously acknowledge from where we came while exalting where we may go, an opportunity to join a society of like-minded souls and allow them to rejoice in our efforts.

While proponents of value-based care indicate that the cost savings and efficiency of the system are inherently quality based, it remains to be seen how that will play out at the patient–physician relationship level

Having a paper published in The Laryngoscope, the country’s oldest and largest otolaryngology peer-reviewed journal, is a goal and point of pride for researchers in the field of otolaryngology.

A significant amount of medical training, at both the medical school and residency levels, occurs at larger academic hospital systems, however. This can make getting a firsthand view of private practice a challenge for physicians in training.

PROMs are important in otolaryngology because many of the issues that patients have (e.g., hearing loss, nasal issues, snoring, swallowing, dizziness) have a big subjective component. One of the benefits of performing PROMs is getting a measure of how a patient is doing at that visit, as well as giving the clinician a point of focus, whether it’s a specific physical, functional, or emotional issue.