Video 1 Transcript
So otolaryngology involves both medical decision making and complex surgical handling of very small anatomy, and it is very rewarding if you like hands-on activities, if you like fixing the human body. It's the most perfect machine out there, and it's an honor to take care of people in this realm. So to get into ENT, it requires doing really well on several different things, not only your grades, as it's very competitive, but as far as it's important to do research. If you can find and rotate with an otolaryngologist, they will probably have some ideas of what you can do for research. So publishing papers is very important. Building a strong relationship with others and having a good personality and being able to work well with others.
Video 2 Transcript
Hey, I'm Dr. Huffaker, board-certified otolaryngologist. I'm here to tell you about advice for getting started. Otolaryngology is also known as ear, nose, and throat. It's a sub-specialty of general surgery, and how you get started is the application process for medical school. Medical school is four years, and that's either MD or DO. I happen to be a DO. I went to Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences. Now, the first two years are dedicated to scholastic work and just classwork, essentially. The second two years are dedicated to rotations in different specialties from the whole gamut of them with an attending provider who you rotate with per month, usually. After that, you do what's called a match system. The match is where you apply different surgical specialties, and in that, you do a first year out as internship, and then it's four years of residency.
