Preparing for your ENT career elective as a MS3

[jsong812]

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Due to scheduling conflicts, I won't be able to rotate through a 2 week elective in ENT before I go into my one month ENT career elective as a fourth year. I've had a fair amount of experience with shadowing and doing research projects with some ENT faculty so I'm wondering what are some other things I can do to prepare myself during my third year? I was thinking about reading a few books such as "Primary Care Otolaryngology " by MK Wax, and ENT secrets, but any other book recommendations? should I go through the head and neck section from Gray's Anatomy? thanks in advance.

 

[blz]

As a student the most important thing to study is anatomy. Know it cold. I found it helpful to use surgical atlases so I could read about a case and the pertinent anatomy.

It terms of content, I actually just read Pasha. I found ENT secrets and other ENT review books (Lalwani, etc.) to be too bare bones. Pasha is dense at first but if you just keep reading it over and over it'll stick.

 

[neutropeniaboy]

As a student the most important thing to study is anatomy. Know it cold. I found it helpful to use surgical atlases so I could read about a case and the pertinent anatomy.

It terms of content, I actually just read Pasha. I found ENT secrets and other ENT review books (Lalwani, etc.) to be too bare bones. Pasha is dense at first but if you just keep reading it over and over it'll stick.

You'd be a praise-worthy beast if you could get through Pasha as a medical student. But, you'd be a beast nonetheless.

I'd be overly pleased with a student if s/he knew Secrets inside and out.

Also, agree on the anatomy. Nothing annoys me more than a sub-I who gets flustered when they're asked basic anatomy. (Other things really do annoy me more, but not many.)