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Residency Training Program

Residency Training Program of Department of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, National Cheng Kung University Hospital

 

The First Year Resident

1. Surgical skill: basic surgical skill (suture and change wound dressing)

2. Patient care and management

   R1 on duty

   Anesthesiology department training: Otolaryngology field anesthesia

   Ward

   Emergency Room

3. Core Knowledge

   Book Reading

   Journal Reading

   Monthly Summary- Case Report

   Apprenticeship and Representation of each subspecialty examination

    (Such as Audiometry, ENG, ABR)

 

The Second Year Resident

1. Surgical skill: as appendix

2. Patient care and management

  ICU training (3 months)

3. Core Knowledge

   Journal Reading

   Monthly Summary

   Discourse writing- Case Report

   Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Otolaryngology

 

The Third Year Resident

1. Surgical skill: as appendix

2. Patient care and management

3. Core Knowledge

   Journal Reading

   Monthly Summary

   Discourse writing

   Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Otolaryngology

 

 

 

The Fourth Year Resident

1. Surgical skill: as appendix

2. Chief Resident: administration, consultation and clinical practice 

3. Core Knowledge

   Discourse writing

   Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Otolaryngology

 

The Fifth Year Resident

1. Surgical skill: as appendix

2. Fellow: teaching (clerk and intern)

3. Study of subspecialty

4. Core Knowledge

   Discourse writing

   Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the Academy of Otolaryngology

 

Appendix:

 

A. Laryngology-Head and Neck Surgery

The First and Second Year Resident

1.Fibroscope examination

2.Simple pharyngo-laryngeal foreign body removal

3.Oral lesion biopsy

4. Fine needle aspiration cytology

5.Tracheostomy

 

The Third Year Resident

1. Tonsillectomy and adenoidectomy

2. Neck mass biopsy

3. Oral cyst excision

4. Submandibular gland extirpation

5. I & D of deep neck infection

6. Simple neck tumor excision

 

The Fourth Year Resident

1. Neck dissection

2. Parotidectomy

3. Laryngomicrosurgery

4. Bronchoscopic foreign body removal

5. Head and neck laser surgery

 

The Fifth Year Resident

1. Total laryngectomy

2. Palatal resection

3. Head and neck reconstruction

 

 

B. Otology

The First and Second Year Resident

1. Pure tone audiometry

2. Middle ear measurement

3. OAE manipulation and representation(newborn screening)

4. General otic local treatment

5. Simple otic foreign body removal

6. Ear bleeding management

7. Myringotomy

8. Assistant of tympanoplasty

9. Assistant of pre-auricular fistulectomy

10. I & D of otohematoma or auricular abscess

11. Assistant of mastoidectomy

12. Speech audiometry

13. ABR

 

The Third Year Resident

1. Complicated otic foreign body removal

2. Complete grommet insertion

3. Assistant of facial nerve decompression

4. Assistant of auricular tumor excision

5. Complete pre-auricular fistulectomy

6. ENG

7. Vertigo

 

The Fourth Year Resident

1. Complete myringoplasty

2. Complete tympanoplasty

3. Complete mastoidectomy

 

The Fifth Year Resident

1. Complete ossicular chain reconstruction

2. Complete facial nerve decompression

3. Complete auricular tumor excision

4. Complete cochlear implant

 

C. Rhinology

The First and Second Year Resident

1. Management of nasal bleeding

2. Simple nasal foreign body removal

3. Fiberoptic nasopharyngoscope

4. Close reduction of nasal bone fracture

5. Sinoscope exam and nasopharyngeal biopsy

6. Inferior turbinate laser cauterization

7. First assistant of septomeatoplasty

8. First assistant of functional endoscope sinus surgery

9. First assistant of Luc’s operation

10. Complete septomeatoplasty

 

The Third Year Resident

1. Complete polypectomy

2. Complete lysis of nasal synechiae

3. First assistant of maxillectomy and lateral rhinotomy

4. Nasolabial cyst excision

 

The Fourth Year Resident

1. Complete Luc’s operation

2. Complete functional endoscope sinus surgery

3. Repair of oro-antral fistula

4. Complete choanal atresia correction

 

The Fifth Year Resident

1. Complete maxillectomy, degloving procedure and lateral rhinotomy

2. Complete rhinoplasty

3. Complete reduction of facial bone fracture