Getting involved enriches your professional life, which requires saying “yes”—a lot.


Getting involved enriches your professional life, which requires saying “yes”—a lot.

Value-Based Compensation model can be considered advantageous because it evens the playing field between proceduralists and non-proceduralists, but defining value and implementing VBC can be challenging.

New standardized otolaryngology curriculum’s goal is to deliver a comprehensive and appropriately detailed curriculum that will help direct self-learning and serve as a jumping-off point for residency programs’ didactic learning.

The Federal Trade Commission has determined that noncompetes are an unfair method of competition, violating section 5 of the FTC act.

The constant cycle of transitions to a medical career can make it difficult to enjoy the present, to acknowledge the hard work that was required get to the current position, and to remember why you embarked on the journey at the start.

While proponents of value-based care indicate that the cost savings and efficiency of the system are inherently quality based, it remains to be seen how that will play out at the patient–physician relationship level

Having a paper published in The Laryngoscope, the country’s oldest and largest otolaryngology peer-reviewed journal, is a goal and point of pride for researchers in the field of otolaryngology.

A significant amount of medical training, at both the medical school and residency levels, occurs at larger academic hospital systems, however. This can make getting a firsthand view of private practice a challenge for physicians in training.

Editor Robin Lindsay, gives pointers to help your journey for work-life balance choices a little easier.

PROMs are important in otolaryngology because many of the issues that patients have (e.g., hearing loss, nasal issues, snoring, swallowing, dizziness) have a big subjective component. One of the benefits of performing PROMs is getting a measure of how a patient is doing at that visit, as well as giving the clinician a point of focus, whether it’s a specific physical, functional, or emotional issue.