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The course of Ear, Nose, and Throat Diseases, also called Otorhinolaryngology, Head & Neck Surgery (ORL-HNS), deals with wide spectrum of diseases. It is required that the students pass this course at their fifth year during the medical school.
Different topics are covered during the curriculum. These include the common cases of Rhinology, Otology, Head and Neck Surgery, and Facial Plastics Surgery. Approach to both emergency and elective cases is discussed. Prepared by the tutors, online learning material is handed over to the students, and they are expected to listen to them beforehand. Different ways of theoretical learning include lectures, seminars, and case-based learning.
Furthermore, the students are required to attend the departmental morning report, where specialists and residents meet, and they discuss the ward cases, and some of the emergency situations that occurred during the preceding night shift. In addition, the students get the chance to take history and do physical examination of outpatient clinics, review different related imaging studies, and actively participate in formulating the management plans. Furthermore, they observe different clinic procedures, such as cautery of bleeding, ear suctioning, flexible naso-pharyngo-laryngoscopy, performing biopsies, hearing assessment tests, and change of tracheostomy tube change among others.
At the end of the 2-week course, the students set to pre-prepared checklist-based physical exam test, and to OSCE-based theoretical exam. These tests cover thoroughly the basic and clinical skills that the student gained during this course, and a final MCQ-based exam will take place at the end of the academic year.
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