Education activities in the department involve basic student education, post-M.D. residency education, patient education, and faculty participation in continuing educational programs both local and national.

Medical student education according to the curriculum and manual, classroom lectures up to 5th year are given using the symptom-oriented-disease approach and special behavioral objects (one semester - 30 hours). After completion of lectures, during 1 week, we contact medical students (5th grade) with clerkship. Basic physical examination and other diagnostic and therapeutic procedures are reviewed through the training period.

The residency program includes clinical practicum, instructional and research experiences. Also, we invite some professors of the other universities to present useful and upmost lectures. The academic schedule for resident doctors is as follows:

• Textbook Review: Provides an opportunity for the first-year residents to read, review, and discuss selected chapters from a major textbook in otolaryngology. Anatomy, Physiology and Pathology are stressed in the selection of material. Textbook review usually meets every morning 6:30-7:00 AM except Friday and Saturday.
• Journal Club: Review current literatures in otology, rhinology, laryngology, head & neck oncology, neurotology and skull base surgery. Journal club usually meets every 2nd Monday evening 7:00-8:00 PM.
• Case Conference: Opportunity to discuss interesting or/and problem cases with radiologist, pathologist and any other related department doctors. Case conference usually meets every 4th Monday evening 7:00-8:00 PM.
• Case Preview: Gives the resident a thorough understanding of the disease and decision-making process for treatment by analyzing cases. Case preview usually meets every Monday evening 5:30-6:00 PM.
• Case Review: Provides postoperative analysis of the total cases performed during last week. Case review usually meets every Monday evening 6:00-7:00 PM.
• Topic Review: Allows the residents to prepare interesting and important topics by themselves to improve their presentation ability, and to help them to care for patients. Topic review usually meets every Saturday morning 10:30-11:30 AM.
• Staff Lecture: Faculty members of the department have the chances to give lecture on their specialty to the residents. Sometimes doctors or professors from another university or institute are invited to give special lecture. This usually meets every 1st and 3rd Monday evening 7:00- 8:00 PM.
• Head and Neck Tumor Board: Provides an opportunity to review, discuss, and decide treatment plans of head and neck cancer patients with medical oncologists, radiation oncologists, radiologists, reconstructive surgeons, dentists and general surgeons. This usually meets 1st and 3rd Wednesday afternoon 12:30-1:30 PM.
• Cochlear Implantation Conference: Provides an opportunity to review and decide CI treatment plans of bilateral deaf patients with otologists, audiologists, speech therapists, rehabilitation physicians, and social workers. This usually meets every 1st and 3rd Thursday afternoon 5:00 ? 6:00 PM.
• Rhinology Conference: Provides knowledge and an opportunity to study and discuss anatophysiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and treatment of nose & sinus diseases. This usually meets on the 2nd Thursday of the month at 5:00 PM.
• ENT Practitioner Meeting: Provides local practitioner with opportunity to obtain advises from colleagues on difficult cases, share clinical pearls and the state-of-the-art in ENT fields. This usually meet the 2nd Wednesday morning 7:30-8:30 AM of the months.
• Introduction Course: Gives the new resident a thorough background in the anatomy, physiology and pathology of Otolaryngology and provides them a thorough understanding of the method of diagnosis, laboratory test, and methods of treatment of ENT diseases. This course usually meets the last week of February.
• Dissection Course: :Thoroughly familiarize the participant with the intricate three dimensional anatomy of the human nose, neck and temporal bone, give them an opportunity to develop the skills necessary for live surgery via a hands-on-approach with close guidance and instruction in the temporal bone laboratory and department of Anatomy. The participant should gain a working knowledge of the application of the techniques for actual patient application. These courses usually are held once a year. Temporal bone dissection course usually meets July of the year. Paranasal sinus and neck dissection courses depend on condition of the department of Anatomy.
  1. Temporal bone dissection for the 3rd year residents.
  2. Neck dissection for the 3rd and the 4th year residents.
  3. Nose & paranasal sinus dissection for the 2nd year residents.
• Temporal Bone Histopathology Course: The resident doctors are required to understand the intricate three dimensional anatomy of the human temporal bone including the basic histological anatomy of the middle ear and inner ear as described in standard textbooks. The objective of this course is to thoroughly familiarize the resident with the detailed anatomy of the temporal bone before the surgical dissection. An effort will be made to correlate the various anatomical findings with diagnostic and surgical problems that arise in the otolaryngological area.
• Ajou Otology Symposium: The 15th Ajou Otology Symposium was integrated with the last day program (May 10, 2009) of the 6th Extraordinary International Symposium on Recent Advances in Otitis Media which was organized by our department.