Pediatric ENT is the perfect specialty (along with urology maybe) for someone who wants to work with children, has an interest in a surgical career, but do not want their careers dominated by time in the OR, but rather spend time in clinic as well.
Most pediatric ENT docs have clinic a few days a week and then have dedicated days of the week for OR time. Their surgical procedures run the mill as complicated as things such as head and neck tumors and facial reconstruction and simple as myringotomy tubes. They do a lot of bedside procedures in the ER, PICU, and NICU, such as various types of scopes, abscess drainages, fibroscopic intubations, sinus aspiration, and foreign body removal.
In clinic, you will have a lot of general pediatrics problems, such as allergies and sinusitis, OSA, and sometimes even asthma.
To train, you need to do get into an ENT residency first, which is the hard part. After that, it is very easy to get into a pediatric ENT fellowship. They also have fellowships in neurotology if you were specifically interested in deafness.
