In his introduction of the competition, Academic Bowl coordinator J. David Osguthorpe, MD, predicted that the winning medical school residency team would answer 85 percent of Bowl questions correctly. When the dust settled at the conclusion, two of the teams did considerably better than that, "proving that these are the top residency programs in the country," Dr. Osguthorpe said.
Competing against one another in the AAO-HNS/F Annual Meeting Academic Bowl were teams of residents from the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, the University of North Carolina Medical School, Wake Forest University Medical School, and The Ohio State University Medical Center.
Correctly answering 95 percent of presented questions, the teams from Ohio State (Drs. Cherie Ryoo, Ryan Hendricker & David Melon) and the University of North Carolina tied for first place and will share a prize that includes travel grants to attend the Annual Meeting, as well as subscriptions to the Home Study Course for the residency program.
Presented with 34 clinical questions covering broad areas of otolaryngology as well as general medicine, each team was given 10 to 30 seconds to agree on an answer. At the same time, answers from the audience were recorded on individual keypads and compared with residency team responses.
The AAO-HNSF Education Steering Committee organizes the Academic Bowl using questions created by Academy educational faculty, or selected from educational materials such as the Home Study Course, Patient of the Month, SIPacs, and the Slide Lecture Series.
To learn more about the academic bowl and the American Academy of Otolaryngology please visit the Academy's webpage at
http://www.entnet.org/
