Educational Activities

In addition to clinical experiences, regularly scheduled didactic teaching conferences are an integral part of our residency. These conferences consist of lectures and discussions directed by the faculty members, visiting lectures by faculty of affiliated institutions, faculty from other residency programs across the nation, residents, and medical students. Each resident is expected to prepare and present a scientific lecture related to a clinical or research topic on a twice-yearly basis.

Additional regularly scheduled didactic sessions provide for additional educational opportunities and include: weekly inservice review, morbidity and mortality conference, tumor board, pathology conference, radiology conference, journal club, facial fracture plating course, head and neck imaging course,

A hands-on temporal bone dissection course is conducted yearly, and a head and neck cadaver dissection course is offered on a biannual basis.

The residents also participate in a monthly city-wide Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery conference as well as the quarterly Utah Society of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery meetings.

During the Otolaryngology residency, the division funds attendance for the PGY-2s at the Annual Meeting of AAO-HNS. Residents with posters or podium presentations at main otolaryngology conferences are funded to attend the meetings as well.

The residents participate in the comprehensive Home Study course offered by the American Academy of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery and also are required to sit for the annual in-service examinations also sponsored by the American Academy of Otolaryngology. The residency program is proud of the scores obtained by the residents on this annual exam, and boasts a 100% pass rate on the national board certification at graduation.

Link to more information about our curriculum objectives and speaker disclosures for our conferences.