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ChatGPT Quiz skills need refinement!

4 September 2023 | | ENTA-Head & Neck, Neurotology, ENTA-Rhinology / Sinus | AI, Artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, Multiple-choice, Otolaryngology quiz, Single-choice
On 30 November 2022, ChatGPT was launched, free for all to use online. For those who are not aware, ChatGPT (Chat Generative Pre-trained Transformer) is an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot which utilises the web to create detailed and natural human-like...

Hearing and balance clinical trials network (HEARING CTN)

1 January 2015 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Otology, ENTA-Vestibular Disorders
About the HEARING CTN The HEARING CTN is a new UK research network focused on promoting research collaboration and supporting high quality research studies, with the aim of improving the evidence supporting the diagnosis and management of hearing loss and...

Microtia and Atresia – Combined Approach by Plastic and Otologic Surgery

1 September 2014 | | ENTA-Otology
In this textbook Kaga and Asato, both leading experts in otology and plastic surgery respectively, present over 10 years of their experience in joint reconstructive surgery for microtia and auricular atresia, combining autologous auricular reconstruction with external auricular canaloplasty and...

Leadership in academia

1 September 2014 | | ENTA-ENT
I went into medicine with the clichéd view of wanting to help people. I found that by doing surgery I could help a small number of people, albeit usually to a large effect. Then, I recognised that by engaging in...

The James Lind Alliance – involving patients and their health professionals jointly in setting priorities for research

1 January 2016 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-ENT
In a world of patient-reported outcomes and patient-centred care, patient-centred research must also be considered. That is where the James Lind Alliance (JLA) comes in, as Caroline Whiting explains below. Through Priority Setting Partnerships (PSPs), it allows patients, their carers...

Have we reached our limits in endoscopic skull base surgery?

1 November 2017 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-Skull Base Surgery
As being an anterior skull base surgeon becomes the aspiration of many ENT trainees, Professor Nicolai gives his personal insights into the future for this exciting subspeciality. Having been directly involved in the evolution of transnasal endscopic surgery (TES) since...

Audiology Papers of the Year 2015-16

1 July 2016 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
In this short review we have asked Melanie, Carolina, Josephine and Cherilee to consider the best article they have read in the last 12 months and provide us with a short review. All contributors have managed to succinctly highlight the...

Infant hearing loss impacts spoken language development: identify and intervene early

1 November 2017 | | ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Audiology - Paediatric
Early hearing detection and intervention programmes have been implemented in many countries across the globe, but why are these programmes so important and how are our Canadian colleagues managing this process? The consequences of being born with a permanent hearing...

Hyperacusis-related distress and comorbid psychiatric illness

1 May 2019 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA-Tinnitus
Research suggests that over 50% of patients presenting with hyperacusis also present with some form of psychiatric disorder. With this in mind, Dr Aazh outlines what tools clinicians can use to screen for psychological disorders and what path to take...

Precision and personalised genomic and epigenomic medicine in audiology/hearing loss

1 July 2021 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-Audiology - Diagnostic
A detailed look at the pathogenesis of acquired hearing loss due to exposure to ototoxicity during pregnancy or shortly after birth. Insights from genomic medicine have shown that, along with environmental factors causing epigenetic alterations, hearing loss may be caused...

Parathyroidectomy

1 July 2017 | | ENTA-ENT, ENTA-Head & Neck, ENTA-Thyroid / Parathyroid Surgery
Many ENT head and neck surgeons are now involved in thyroid surgery. This can also include the need to explore the parathyroids, either to preserve them or indeed to resect parathyroid adenomas. David Smith, a highly experienced endocrine surgeon from...

Developing ENT and audiology services in Southern Africa (Part 2)

6 January 2023 | | ENTA-Audiology - Adult, ENTA-ENT
In the last issue of ENT & Audiology News, we heard from retired Professor Christopher Prescott on the challenges faced and progress made made locally to address the inequity and inequality of access to ENT and allied health professional services...