Abstract
The word “visualization” has been well known, and this matter should be applicable to the medical community, but this has not already been done. When considering postgraduate education in Otorhinolaryngology (ENT), there is no clear curriculum. And creating a detailed curriculum is left up to each institution. Our past report about young doctors of our department, there were differences in the learning situations among individuals. Therefore, we developed a system called “visualization of techniques” as an educational method for young doctors aimed at specialist of ENT. This system is intended for growing high quality specialist, and eliminates the gap between individuals. We classified the major surgeries by the target number of years each. And we also set a target number of cases for each surgery. In this paper, we report the learning level of surgery by young doctors before this system started. The results suggested that surgical experience of 2～3 years after employment is important time for target achievement of “five-year basic surgery”. In the future we will compare the results of before and after the start of this system. And based on these results, we will continue to improve this system for the development of high-quality ENT specialist.
