Head and Neck (clerkship)

Students attend practical/clinical sessions at the Dental Clinic, having the chance to visit patients requiring urgent dental treatments and patients referred referred to the oral medicine and special needs service. ENT clerkships provide the students with the tools to conduct basic anamnesis (implementing this with a simulated patient) and ENT physical examination to succeed in differential diagnosis. Practical demonstrations of examination techniques and "hands on" for the students. Students attend practical/clinical sessions at the Ophtalmology Clinic, having the chance to visit patients requiring urgent treatments, patients attending the outpatient clinic and referred to the opthalmology service.

Students are expected to perform: -Examination of the nose -Examination of the mouth and oropharynx -Examination of the larynx with indirect laryngoscopy -Examination of the fundus oculi -Examination of the ear (otoscopy) -Examination of the neck -Bed side examination of vestibular function -Basics of clinical Examination and anthropometry of the face -Assessment of visual acuity -Slit lamp examination - Recognize the most oral mucosal lesions, the potentially malignant oral lesions and conditions and the common dental treatment and prosthesis rehabilitation and related problems Students are expected to describe the phases and the images during: -Fiberscope examination of the rhino-pharynx and of the adenoids -Fiberscope examination of the pharynx -Fiberscope examination of the larynx Students are expected to describe: -results of audiometry and impedenzometry.