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UK ENT reference before, during and after training.

Referenced notes and clinical tools for everyday ENT practice. Prepare for ST3 and FRCS, and keep your training records together.

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Your next step into ENT

Applying for ENT ST3

For core trainees, foundation doctors and clinical fellows exploring ENT or preparing to apply. Use the published notes and questions to strengthen your clinical foundations, and practise explaining your reasoning out loud.

  • Read a topic, answer its linked questions and revisit the explanation.
  • Use public viva samples to practise structuring a spoken answer. These are FRCS-level examples, not a dedicated ST3 interview course.
  • Explore the training roadmap to understand the path from ST3 onwards.

Learn and keep your evidence together

During ENT training

Move between clinical learning and your training record. Read referenced notes, practise questions and vivas, then organise procedures, assessments, teaching and other evidence against the curriculum.

  • Start from a note, a question or a topic you want to understand better.
  • Log evidence, link it to curriculum topics and review your training-year progress.
  • Connect ISCP/eLogbook to bring in supported records, or start with a local portfolio entry. Review prepared handoffs before using them officially.

Connect securely and sync your records

Assessments, procedures, courses and teaching come together in your portfolio.

Secure official-service session · example

Connect once. Bring your records across.

Sign in on the official ISCP page and complete its verification. ORL-HNS does not store your password.

Assessments30/30

Synced

Procedures10/60

Syncing

Courses and teaching7/10

7 synced · 3 remaining

Illustrative sync counts, not training targets. Nothing is imported or saved.

Spot the gaps before ARCP

Review recorded activity, pending assessments and the evidence you still need.

EXAMPLE PORTFOLIO CHECK

See what needs your attention.

CoursesRecorded

Regional teaching

Session logged. Reflection still to add.

Two PBAs awaiting an assessor

Keep unfinished assessments visible.

Illustrative progress, not an ARCP assessment.

Add courses and teaching as you go

Quickly record regional teaching, courses and the sessions you deliver.

EXAMPLE QUICK ADD

Record it while you remember.

Try the categories. No record is created.

Stay in control of your records

The saved session is encrypted and revocable. Outgoing draft fields need your approval; final submission stays with you.

Your account. Your approval.

  • No stored ISCP password.
  • Private portfolio records.
  • Review drafts before they are written.
  • Disconnect the session when you choose.

Read the topic, then practise it.

Explore the note features, then open a complete public example.

Read the relevant section

Keep the reference available throughout training and clinical practice.

PUBLIC NOTE EXAMPLE

Acoustic Neuroma

Both sporadic and NF2-related tumours are rare, benign, slow-growing lesions originating from the vestibular divisions of the eighth cranial nerve.

↑ Open the sections you need.

Open the public note and all its sections

Definitions in context

Tap the highlighted term to read its definition without leaving the note.

FROM THE PUBLIC ACOUSTIC NEUROMA NOTE

Understand a term as you read.

Vestibular schwannoma

↑ Tap the underlined term to open its definition.

Read the full public note

Follow the linked practice

Use available topic questions and vivas to check your understanding.

Put the topic into practice.

Move from the note into its available practice. This public example links to viva stations.

Open linked vivas Browse the question bank

Linked practice depends on what is published for each topic.

Turn reading into practice

Preparing for FRCS

Work through the question bank, understand why each answer option fits or does not, and open the linked note when you need more detail. Use viva stations to practise saying what you know.

  • Choose topics and revisit questions you answered incorrectly.
  • Save progress and use spaced Review during Trial or Plus.
  • Practise vivas alone or with a colleague and compare your answer with the mark scheme.

Solo or with a friend

Practise delivering your answer and reviewing the mark scheme.

Choose how to practise.

Practice prompt

01:00

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Published sample with a one-minute demo timer. No room is created and no answer is saved.

Speak, listen back, improve

The actual rehearsal recorder. Audio stays in this browser tab.

Hear how your answer comes across.

Private to this browser tab. Nothing is uploaded or saved.

Practise the candidate and examiner roles

Switch views using a published station. No room is created in this example.

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Try it here. This sample attempt is not saved.

Check your MCQ reasoning

Answer a published question and read the explanation.

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Try it here. This sample attempt is not saved.

Explore the anatomy.

Turn a model and identify the structures and their relationships.

Identify the structure, then turn the model

The right optic nerve is selected. Rotate the model or choose another named structure.

Numbered anatomy diagram: Sphenoid sinus: carotid and optic nerve. Numbers correspond to the structure selector below.

Choose a structure on the image. Tap the diagram for full size.

Right optic nerve. Runs in the optic canal in the lesser wing of the sphenoid, above and lateral to the sphenoid sinus. An Onodi cell can carry it in its own wall.

The carotid arteries relate to the lateral sphenoid sinus walls; the optic canals lie superolaterally. These relationships vary with pneumatization.

Source & licence
BodyParts3D, © The Database Center for Life Science, licensed under CC Attribution 4.0 International.

Meshes converted and simplified for ORL-HNS; numbered diagrams projected from those meshes.

Full source and licence notice

Explore the temporal bone

Switch from sinus relationships to the ear model and its named parts.

Numbered anatomy diagram: The ear inside the temporal bone. Numbers correspond to the structure selector below.

Choose a structure on the image. Tap the diagram for full size.

Drum and ossicles in the middle ear, the labyrinth medial to them, the facial nerve threading between, with the carotid in front and the jugular below.

Source & licence
SPL Inner Ear Atlas, Surgical Planning Laboratory, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, via the Open Anatomy Project; 3D Slicer licence.

Meshes converted and simplified for ORL-HNS; numbered diagrams projected from those meshes.

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Explore the laryngeal framework

Identify the cartilages and intrinsic muscles. Rotate the model to compare their relationships.

Numbered anatomy diagram: The laryngeal skeleton. Numbers correspond to the structure selector below.

Choose a structure on the image. Tap the diagram for full size.

Hyoid above, thyroid cartilage as the shield, cricoid as the only complete ring, arytenoids on the cricoid lamina and the epiglottis leaning back over the inlet.

Source & licence
BodyParts3D, © The Database Center for Life Science, licensed under CC Attribution 4.0 International.

Meshes converted and simplified for ORL-HNS; numbered diagrams projected from those meshes.

Full source and licence notice

See the neck vessels in context

Compare carotid arteries, jugular veins and the overlying muscles.

Numbered anatomy diagram: Carotid arteries, jugular veins and neck landmarks. Numbers correspond to the structure selector below.

Choose a structure on the image. Tap the diagram for full size.

Rotate the source anatomy and remove the overlying muscles to compare vessels and laryngeal landmarks. Nerves, fascial planes and lymph-node levels are not represented.

Source & licence
BodyParts3D, © The Database Center for Life Science, licensed under CC Attribution 4.0 International.

Meshes converted and simplified for ORL-HNS; numbered diagrams projected from those meshes.

Full source and licence notice

Explore ENT reference topics

Read the available preview, then follow the topic into the published library. Full public notes are marked below.

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What can I use?

Without an account
Try free questions, public viva stations, public notes and published note previews. Explore the curriculum, roadmap and calculators.
With a free account
Save future question progress and try Plus for seven days, with no card required. Keep the Free samples afterwards.
With Plus
Use the full published notes, question and viva banks, spaced Review, offline study packs and private portfolio workspace.

The library is growing. Only published resources appear in the learner lists; see the build log for announced additions.

Training outside the UK? Explore resources for ENT residents worldwide.

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  • Sample notes, questions and vivas
  • Curriculum and public tools
  • Saved sample attempts

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Or £25 rolling monthly.

  • Full published notes, Qbank and FRCS vivas
  • Portfolio, ISCP sync and progress tracking
  • Spaced review and offline study
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About ORL-HNS

Why this exists

If you've ever wanted somewhere to revise at your desk, check something in clinic, or run through questions in theatre and pick up where you left off tomorrow, that's what I'm building here. Everything is mapped to the ISCP curriculum so you can see what you've covered and what you haven't.

Work in progress

I built it for myself first, and I'm sharing it in the hope that it finds others who wished for something like this too. I've done my best to keep it affordable, and I'm working on this every day, adding content, reviewing questions and improving what's here.

If you're a trainee looking for a resource that respects your time and your wallet, I hope this helps.

Feedback

If something isn't working, if an answer is wrong, or if you have an idea for what this should do, I'd love to hear it. If you'd like to contribute content or help improve what's here, even better. The contact form reaches me directly and I read everything.

Follow the build

I share selected updates and occasional reflections in the public Build Log. Private messages and learner feedback stay private.

About me

I'm Ali, a London-based ENT registrar.

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