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#BecauseIhearIlive – an international message from Smiling Crocodile

26 June 2020 | | ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology
There are 34 million children worldwide afflicted by disabling hearing loss, 60% of whom are suffering from hearing loss due to preventable causes [1]. This article is an account of the Smiling Crocodile Charity, founded in 2009 by Dagmar Herrmannová,...

Enhancing performance and well-being for surgeons: the science of life coaching

3 September 2024 |
Life coaching has emerged as a powerful personal and professional development tool, particularly for individuals navigating high-stakes environments. Life coaching emphasises self-awareness, self-management and self-efficacy, including establishing desired outcomes, goal setting and developing skills and action plans to achieve them....

The Association of Otolaryngologists in Training: by trainees for trainees

1 November 2016 | | ENTA-ENT
The Association of Otolaryngologists in Training (AOT) is an independent organisation, run by trainees for trainees in the UK for over 25 years. Its aims are to represent all ENT trainees in the UK; to improve and promote standards of...

A small company’s perspective

1 March 2015 | ENTA-ENT
In this article, we hear from Alan McNulty, Director from Sheffmed, an SME (Small – Medium Enterprise), who have supplied surgical instruments, consumables and video systems to ENT clinicians for over 12 years. Alan outlines some of the choices and...

IEM – no noise is good noise!

1 September 2016 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
Whether you’re an active musician or a music-loving commuter, noise exposure via music is a very real concern. Musician, sound engineer and Puretone Sales Manager, Deke Frickey, looks at where the dangers lie and the best ways to overcome them....

Optimising hearing aid processing for music appreciation

1 September 2016 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
Hearing aid manufacturers’ main focus has, up until recently, been improvement of speech intelligibility. Today’s hearing aid users have much broader demands however and often cite improved music perception as a key outcome or goal. Drs Tish Ramirez and Rebecca...

Audiology Training – Time to change our Spots? A student’s perspective of the Scientist Training Programme

1 March 2015 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
In the “Just-so Stories”, the accomplished wordsmith Rudyard Kipling details how the leopard got his spots. Which concludes that the leopard will never change his appearance again as he is quite content just the way he is. The former degree...

INTEGRATE: Uniting collaborative research in ENT

1 January 2016 | | ENTA-ENT
Exposure to clinical research as a trainee is often sporadic and unstructured, despite it featuring in both the GMC’s Good Medical Practice and the ISCP’s syllabus for all surgical specialities, including otolaryngology [1,2]. The majority of trainees undertake small-scale research...

Trainee-led collaborative research and audit in ENT: where are we now?

1 November 2019 | | ENTA-ENT
In late 2015 INTEGRATE, the UK ENT Trainee Research Network, was formed. Since then, two national projects have been completed and INTEGRATE has grown into a larger, more structured organisation, with otology, head and neck and rhinology subcommittees working alongside...

World Health Assembly adopts a resolution on hearing loss: a defining moment for the global hearing health community

1 November 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
The World Health Assembly recently adopted a resolution on hearing loss. In this article Shelly Chadha and Alarcos Cieza outline how the resolution came to be and how the World Health Organization and its partners plan to implement it. The...

Continuing professional development

1 September 2018 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
In this article Siobhán Brennan explores continuing professional development (CPD) in all its glory! She outlines why it’s important to continue learning throughout our careers, highlights some of the challenges facing those trying to undertake CPD and discusses the variety...

Embracing deafness and the silent world

4 September 2023 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult
Brian Kokoruwe shares his journey from growing up during civil war in Nigeria to becoming Director of Deaf UK Athletics and a published author. While I am active in the Deaf BSL community, involved in Deaf sports and the Government...