Phase IV Clinical Posting

Undergraduate

The department anchors the undergraduate Otolaryngology programme, which focuses on the Otolaryngology module for 300 fourth-year medical students. Every academic year from June to the following January, these students spend two weeks each immersed in otolaryngology with their clinical groups.

During these two-week rotations, the students undergo campus-based learning with tutors from the department over the first two days. The ​curriculum is centred on common otolaryngology conditions such as hearing loss, giddiness, otorrhea, nasal obstruction and discharge, epistaxis, allergies, and head and neck lumps. The remaining time is spent in the clinical setting.

The programme is designed to introduce students to a wide range of otolaryngology problems, increase their familiarity with normal head and neck anatomy, educate them on abnormal anatomy, and teach them how to perform a general head and neck examination.

Students undergo their End-of-Posting Test at the end of their 6-week Phase IV specialty posting rotation, of which Otolaryngology is a part of. The top students of each cohort are offered the opportunity to participate in the annual ENT Book Prize Competition at the end of the academic year.