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[Repdsesstuinas]

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Hey - I am a 3rd year who might be interested in ENT because of the diversity of surgical practice including adults, pediatrics and oncology. With pediatrics and HNS fellowships out there does a general ENT who never completed a pediatrics or HNS fellowship still have privlidiges to operate at childrens hospitals and still do oncology surgery. I am attracted to the speciality because I want to do all three of those but if each is fragmented out to the different fellows then the speciality might not be as good of a fit as I imagined.

Also, I know that oral and maxillofacial surgeons are dentists but is there an overlap in practice between an ENT and an OMS?

Thanks for any info.

 

[resxn]

Hey - I am a 3rd year who might be interested in ENT because of the diversity of surgical practice including adults, pediatrics and oncology. With pediatrics and HNS fellowships out there does a general ENT who never completed a pediatrics or HNS fellowship still have privlidiges to operate at childrens hospitals and still do oncology surgery. I am attracted to the speciality because I want to do all three of those but if each is fragmented out to the different fellows then the speciality might not be as good of a fit as I imagined.

Also, I know that oral and maxillofacial surgeons are dentists but is there an overlap in practice between an ENT and an OMS?

Thanks for any info.

Just be a general ENT and you can do all 3 easily as long as you're not practicing in a hypersaturated market.

There's lots of posts on the overlap between ENT and OMFS. Look below for a long discussion on them.