The curriculum and the equity myth

A multidisciplinary approach to identifying and managing heterotopic gastric inlet patches

“…Transnasal Panendoscopy is the examination of the path of swallowing, that is, from the mucocutaneous junction of the lips to the cardio-esophageal junction of the stomach, to the limit of type three junctional tumors (Figure 2). 16 Its scope has been defined within the national surgical training curriculum 17 as a test to visualize "…all of nasopharynx, oropharynx, larynx, hypopharynx and oesophagus, and upper part of stomach…". The scope of a gastroscopy, defined by the same curriculum is to visualize "…all of oesophagus, stomach, and du-odenum…".…”

“…18 It can be performed by a suitably trained clinician from otolaryngology or gastrointestinal endoscopy backgrounds. Within otolaryngology, competency in performing it is only expected of subspecialty-trained Laryngologists 17 but it could also be performed by additionally-trained head and neck surgical oncologists…”