The Children's Hospital, Boston, is the largest children's hospital in the United States. Besides providing primary care in pediatrics, it is an academic tertiary referral center that provides a wide variety of diagnostic and treatment services in pediatric subspecialties that are available in few, if any, locations elsewhere. It receives patients not only from the northeastern United States but also in large numbers from around the world. The hospital is heavily endowed and is among the first ten recipients in NIH funding for research. The Department of Otolaryngology receives more than one million dollars per year in direct cost NIH funding to support research in otitis media, respiratory papillomatosis and other projects.

The department is staffed by nine full-time pediatric otolaryngologists who are national and international authorities in pediatric otolaryngology, leaders in national academic otolaryngology societies and highly skilled surgeons and teachers. The extraordinary volume of pediatric patients seen in the clinic and admitted to the service provides a unique learning opportunity in all phases of pediatric otolaryngology, particularly the. diagnosis and management of airway disorders, otology and neoplasms of the head and neck. The resident shares this educational experience with a resident on rotation from the Training Program of the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary.