WashU Medicine Otolaryngology residents Katherine Garvey, MD, Andrew Peterson, MD, MSCI, and Dan Romano, MD, competed against three other teams in the 19th annual Academic Bowl, held October 19 as part of the American Academy of Otolaryngology – Head and Neck Surgery Foundation’s annual meeting.
Although the WashU Med team was highly competitive, the Jeopardy-style contest ultimately came down to Final Jeopardy, where every team bet their all, and only University of Maryland came up with the correct answer. The remaining two teams were University of Southern California and University of California, Los Angeles.
Of the 111 U.S. otolaryngology residency programs, four qualify to participate in the contest based on overall performance on the AAO-HNS Core Curriculum, an online multimedia learning platform featuring 100 modules covering essential otolaryngology topics.
Katherine, Andrew and Dan were fantastic representatives of our program and showed they certainly deserved to be among the competitors. I am so proud of them!
Residency Program Director Judith Lieu, MD, MSPH
The first Academic Bowl competition was launched in 2007, established by the AAO-HNSF Education Advisory Committee and held during the organization’s annual meeting. The event is designed as a clinically oriented “battle of the brains”. Teams consisting of three residents face off to test their mastery of otolaryngology subspecialties, the business of medicine and recent clinical research findings.
The Academic Bowl has remained a highly anticipated, top-rated cornerstone of resident education at the annual meeting. This was the first appearance by WashU Medicine in the competition.
The winning team takes home the championship trophy and secures bragging rights and institutional prestige. Of the many WashU Med faculty and residents who showed up to support their team, Lindburg Professor and Chair of Otolaryngology Sid Puram, MD, PhD, was certainly impressed.
“They did great!” he said. “Were we very proud to have them represent us on this national stage.