Specialty training begins. The residents rotate to Boston Medical Center and VAHS Boston , each for 6 months.

Duties and Responsibilities

• Admission workups
• Assist second and third year residents with inpatient care
• Perform less complex surgical procedures such as myringotomy, T&A's, biopsies, and endoscopy.
• Assist the second and third year residents with major surgical procedures
• Night call in the hospital - usually every third night
• Help teaching medical and dental students.
• Examine and treat patients in the outpatient clinics and emergency room.

Didactic Education

• In hospital conferences (radiology, pathology, speech-hearing, tumor)
• Attend Wednesday CPC and guest lecture series
• Saturday Basic Science Course
• Laboratory Courses (Surgical anatomy of the head and neck, temporal bone dissection, Lasers, etc.)
• Home Study Course of American Academy of Otolaryngology
• Attend three New England Otolaryngology Society Meetings.
• Summer "Crash course" on common otolaryngologic disabilities
• Preparation and presentation of the Monday Morning Lecture series at BCH.
• Preparation of "the Case of the Day" at BCH following each clinic.
• Develop a reseach question and a plan for its solution.

Summary of Rotations