Behind ORL-HNS

Build Log

Short updates on what has changed, and occasional reflections on building a useful ENT training resource.

Drop schedule

What is coming, and what has already landed — features in one lane, content in the other.

Features shipped
24
Content shipped
867 questions · 26 topic notes · 2 vivas

Features shipped 24

  1. Portfolio manager on your phone

    Tap to filter evidence, case estimates from your records, and the secure sign-in works on iOS.

  2. Catch up before ARCP

    Photograph paper notes and drop in PDFs; one proposed record per case, checked against ISCP and eLogbook, approved in one table.

  3. ISCP sync reads your whole portfolio in one run

    Every assessment card in full; feedback, reflections. Ratings counted on your index-procedure and curriculum trackers.

  4. Build Log with a drop schedule

    See what has shipped and what is coming.

  5. Larry the Larynx joined the team

    He keeps you company on waiting and empty screens.

  6. Invite a colleague

    A share link that takes them straight through onboarding.

  7. Paired viva practice

    Practise vivas progressively, solo or with a partner.

  8. Discussions on notes and questions

    Comment, ask and answer beside the content.

  9. My op notes

    Checkbox-first operation notes that copy out clean.

  10. Viva answers cite the note

    Every viva answer points back to the note it comes from.

  11. Update notifications

    A message when something new lands for you, and a place to reply.

  12. ENT AI assistant

    Ask a clinical question and get an answer cited to the notes.

  13. Plus membership with a free trial

    Reading and practising stay free; Plus unlocks the full bank and the portfolio manager.

  14. Clinical calculators

    Source-faithful scores, starting with NOSE.

  15. Search the wording, not just the titles

    Full-text search across questions and notes.

  16. Install as an app and practise offline

    Home-screen install, an offline question pack, answers saved when you are back online.

  17. Dictate a note or sketch an operation

    Voice-to-note and operation sketches on your phone.

  18. FRCS curriculum map and portfolio trackers

    Index procedures, critical conditions and ARCP and CCT gaps by training year.

  19. Spaced review

    Questions you got wrong come back when they are due.

  20. Viva stations

    Structured viva questions beside every topic.

  21. Topic notes

    Curriculum-mapped ENT notes you can read on any device.

  22. Question bank

    Timed and untimed MCQ sessions across the FRCS ORL-HNS curriculum, each with an explanation.

  23. Free clinical reference

    Articles, consent guides, guideline summaries and op-note templates, each dated.

  24. Search

    One search across notes and questions.

Content shipped 7

  1. 154 questions and four textbook notes

    154 questions · 4 topic notes

    The latest content drop, plus textbook listening and connected question explanations with linked concepts and notes.

  2. All specialties

    130 questions · 21 topic notes

    Detailed topic notes, and questions. Friday 11/9/26 14:00 BST

  3. Two viva stations on vestibular schwannoma

    2 vivas

    Unilateral asymmetric hearing loss with imbalance; a young adult with bilateral CPA lesions. Free to everyone.

  4. 21 more questions

    21 questions

    Published alongside the vestibular schwannoma note and vivas.

  5. Topic note: Acoustic Neuroma (Vestibular Schwannoma)

    1 topic note

    The first published topic note, readable on any device.

  6. 375 more questions

    375 questions

    The bank grows to 562 published questions; a free set of 100 stays open to everyone.

  7. Question bank opens with 187 questions

    187 questions

    The first published MCQs across the FRCS ORL-HNS curriculum, each with an explanation.