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The drive for success: from the hockey pitch to the surgical field

1 November 2016 | | ENTA - ENT
A hockey ball is rock hard and can travel at 100 mph. Stopping it with your most vulnerable body parts seems an excellent metaphor for higher surgical training... Four years on from the 2012 Olympics presents an ideal time to...

How trainees can make major contributions to practice

1 November 2017 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Rhinology / Sinus
At a time when many of our trainees feel poorly supported and disheartened, the formation of a National ENT Trainee Research Network (Integrate) has been a major advance, enabling them to develop and execute research projects directly relevant to clinical...

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...

COVID-19: UCT-Africa Virtual ENT transcends academic silos

9 September 2020 | | ENTA - ENT
The COVID-19 pandemic has been a global catastrophe with far-reaching consequences felt across many fronts around the world. One such aspect is the training of the future generation of ENT surgeons. With routine elective activity curtailed, academic conferences cancelled, and...

Cambodian otology service – a fellowship with a difference

1 November 2014 | | ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Otology
Cambodia is a country of 15 million people, still recovering from a chequered past. In the 1970s, under the Khmer Rouge, most of the medical profession, together with the rest of the educated population, was executed – the fortunate few...

Virtual educational outreach in the COVID-19 era

7 January 2021 | | ENTA - Covid-19, ENTA - ENT, ENTA - Head & Neck
Existing surgical outreach programmes to developing countries have been severely curtailed by the COVID-19 pandemic. This has impacted on opportunities for otolaryngologists from the USA and from other developed countries to contribute to education and training of otolaryngologists in developing...

COVID-19 and ENT training: experiences from around the world

7 July 2020 | | ENTA - Covid-19, ENTA - ENT
Here, ENT trainees share their experiences of adaptations to both clinical practice and training during the COVID-19 pandemic. We welcome other colleagues from around the world to share their experiences with us via social media or the website. Australia Olivia...

Tinnitus treatment device from concept to commercialisation

8 January 2024 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Tinnitus
Innovation in the field of healthcare is fraught with nearly insurmountable challenges. Bringing a novel product to the market requires a new (patentable) idea that can be reduced to practice, manufactured at scale, and can pass all regulatory barriers. In...

Outreach to build capacity for surgical ear care in low-resource settings: challenges and opportunities

4 May 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
There are successful models for delivering complex ear surgery where resources may be more limited. Ear, nose and throat conditions are frequently overlooked when global health issues are considered, but hearing loss is the world’s most common sensory deficit, and...

The mounting burden of hearing loss worldwide: gearing up global collaboration

1 November 2017 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic, ENTA - Audiology - Paediatric
As audiology and ENT professionals we all have an inkling about the prevalence and impact of hearing loss, but the true gravity of the situation is even greater than previously thought… It may seem hard to believe, but in the...

Outreach to build capacity for surgical ear care in low-resource settings: challenges and opportunities

4 May 2021 | | ENTA - Audiology - Adult, ENTA - Audiology - Diagnostic
There are successful models for delivering complex ear surgery where resources may be more limited. Ear, nose and throat conditions are frequently overlooked when global health issues are considered, but hearing loss is the world’s most common sensory deficit, and...

2020 Unmasked: Hidden strengths and vulnerabilities laid bare - By Joseph Sinnott

2 April 2021 | | COVID-19
Masks were everywhere in 2020. The most visible to stop the spread of COVID-19 but others concealed soon-to-be revealed strengths and weaknesses. In April 2020, the UK Prime Minister was taken to intensive care suffering with this new and frightening...