Objective::To evaluate medical student and attending surgeon experiences with a novel interactive virtual Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery (OHNS) medical student elective during the COVID-19 pandemic.Study Design::A virtual OHNS elective was created, with three components: (1) interactive virtual operating room (OR) experience using live-stream video-conferencing, (2) telehealth clinic, (3) virtual didactics.Setting::OHNS Department at the University of Pennsylvania (May 2020 to June 2020).Methods::Six medical students from the University of Pennsylvania; five attending otolaryngologists. Two surveys were designed and distributed to participating medical students and attending surgeons. Surveys included 5-point Likert scale items, with 1 indicating "not at all" and 5 indicating "very much so" .Results::Response rate was 100% for both surveys. Students on average rated the educational value of the telehealth experience as 4.2 ± 1.2, and the virtual OR experience as 4.0 ± 0.6. Most students ( n = 5, 83%) indicated that they had enough exposure to faculty they met on this rotation to ask for a letter of recommendation (LOR) for residency if needed, while attending surgeons had an average response of 3.0 ± 1.0 when asked how comfortable they would feel writing a LOR for a student they met through the rotation. A majority of students ( n= 4, 67%) felt they connected enough with faculty during the rotation to ask for mentorship. Half the students ( n = 5, 50%) indicated that the rotation allowed them to evaluate the department's culture either "extremely well" or "somewhat well" . Conclusions::Overall, participating students described this innovative virtual surgical rotation as an educationally and professionally valuable experience. With the continued suspension of visiting student rotations due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this virtual model may have continued relevance to medical education.

Virtual surgical education;Otolaryngology;Undergraduate medical education;Covid-19;Telemedicine;Surgical video capture

Byrnes Yasmeen M.;Luu Neil N.;Frost Ariel S.;Chao Tiffany N.;Brody Robert M.;Cannady Steven B.;Rajasekaran Karthik;Shanti Rabie M.;Newman Jason G.

Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Jordan Medical Education Center, 3400 Civic Center Blvd, Philadelphia, 19104, PA, USA;Department of Otorhinolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery, Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, 3400 Spruce Street, Philadelphia, 19104, PA, USA

世界耳鼻咽喉头颈外科杂志（英文）

[1]Byrnes Yasmeen M.;Luu Neil N.;Frost Ariel S.;Chao Tiffany N.;Brody Robert M.;Cannady Steven B.;Rajasekaran Karthik;Shanti Rabie M.;Newman Jason G.-.Evaluation of an interactive virtual surgical rotation during the COVID-19 pandemic)[J].世界耳鼻咽喉头颈外科杂志（英文）,2022(04):302-307

Otolaryngology,OHNS,conferencing,didactics,otolaryngologists,mentorship,educationally,Telemedicine

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