What you are expected to know
Curriculum
The AHNS standardized fellowship curriculum, the case book, and the reference material worth keeping open in a tab. The weekly emails are built on top of all of it.
The syllabus · Version 3.0
AHNS National Standardized Head & Neck Fellowship Curriculum
Goals, objectives, and a syllabus covering most of the scope of practice of a head and neck oncologist, including the seminal articles fellows are expected to know. Every weekly email is anchored in a section of this document.
The Case Book and Textbooks
Copyrighted material lives in the fellowship OneDrive folder rather than on this site. Click through and Rob grants access.
- LinkEssential Cases in Head & Neck OncologyThe case book. Worked cases in the format the boards ask them in. In the fellowship OneDrive folder.OneDrive
- LinkHead & neck and reconstruction textbooksThe rest of the shelf, including the microvascular reconstruction references. Click through and Rob grants access.OneDrive
Guidelines and Staging
The documents you will actually be asked to quote, in clinic and on the boards.
- LinkATA Guidelines browserThe 2025 ATA thyroid guidelines as a searchable web app rather than a 200-page PDF. Built in house.Web app
- LinkNCCN Guidelines: Head and Neck CancersFree with an NCCN account. The version number matters; check you are on the current one before quoting it.nccn.org
- LinkAJCC StagingThe 9th edition is now live for nasopharynx. Know which edition your institution is reporting.facs.org
Societies and Journals
Where the field publishes and argues with itself.