With over a third of medical schools not including any clinical attachment in the subject, this is a laudable attempt to confront the deficiencies in undergraduate ENT teaching within the UK. The Delphi process is an established method of developing a validated curriculum and a two-round process was utilised here to discern a consensus of items to include in undergraduate training.
If we acknowledge approximately 25% of consultations in primary care involve ENT- it is right for the specialty to press for recognition of this fact through recognition within medical school teaching.
It is vital that ENT specialists engage in the process and assist medical schools as they develop the doctors of the future.
