The Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Residency at Mayo Clinic in Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona, provides excellent surgical and medical training in all areas of otolaryngology, head and neck surgery.

This five-year residency prepares graduates for either private practice or academic medicine through education and training with board-certified and fellowship-trained staff that teach management concepts in:

• Head and neck oncology
• Neurotology
• Laryngology
• Rhinology and endoscopic skull base surgery 
• Facial plastic and reconstructive surgery
• Pediatric otolaryngology
• Facial trauma
• Microvascular free tissue transfer

The Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Residency uses a unique apprenticeship system in which residents are assigned to one or two Mayo Clinic staff consultants for three-month periods. This system gives you graduated responsibility and close supervision and interaction.

Mayo Clinic also offers a visiting medical student clerkship in otorhinolaryngology. Additionally, Mayo Clinic was the site of the first known total larynx transplant performed as part of a clinical trial, the first completed on a patient with active cancer in the United States.

Accreditation

The program is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Graduate Medical Education.

Certification

After successfully completing the program, graduates are eligible to take the otolaryngology certification exam offered by the American Board of Otolaryngology.

Program history

The Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery Residency at Mayo Clinic's campus in Arizona began in 2006. We anticipate that three trainees will complete this program annually.

Created in 1987, Mayo Clinic's Department of Otolaryngology Head and Neck Surgery/Audiology in Arizona has matured into a premier head and neck tertiary care referral center in the country.

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