Audiology Unit (ORL Department, Mansoura University)

About the unit:

The Audiovestibular Unit - Faculty of Medicine, Mansoura University, was established in 1983. The college dispatched graduate students to obtain master and doctoral degrees from Egyptian universities such as Ain Shams, Cairo and international universities in the United States of America.

The unit has now gained the resources and scientific strength, which serves a wide segment of society from patients with hearing impairment and balance disorders, as well as training, rehabilitating and awarding scientific degrees to doctors at the level of the nation.

Since hearing has a direct impact on the growth of society and education, and its loss impedes the human development of society, so the unit meets the growing needs to provide the expected services for all.

The unit includes specialized clinics as:

1. Hearing examination clinic: with pure tones and speech audiometry for adults: it diagnoses hearing diseases in adults to determine the appropriate intervention, whether to prescribe drugs or evaluate to determine the possibility of surgical intervention and the extent of benefit to the patient from it and assessing the patient after this intervention. The unit also describes aids, Hearing aids so that the patient can interact with society and to be a part of its integrated and effective

2. Hearing examination clinic with pure tones and words for children (puretone & play audiometry & speech audiometry): it diagnoses and determines the type and degree of hearing loss for medical or surgical intervention or hearing aids, as the hearing impairment of these children has a negative impact on their language acquisition, which affects the younger generations, which are the mainstay and the future of the
3. Advanced hearing screening clinic, which includes recording the evoked auditory brainstem response and evoked cortical responses of children and adults: used to diagnose brain tumors or dysfunction at the cellular It also helps in diagnosis of functional hearing loss patients to obtain compensation. It also determines the degrees of hearing in infants and people with mental disabilities.
4. Balance disorders clinic: Diagnosis and treatment of patients with imbalance, which has become a complaint that meets every doctor in every specialty. In this clinic, the location of the lesion, whether peripheral or central, its causes and methods of rehabilitation is determined
5. Central Test battery Clinic for Central Hearing
6. Tinnitus examination
7. A clinic for cochlear implant patients for examination before and after the implantation process and programming for devices to rehabilitate cochlear implant
8. Specialized clinics such as:

• • Otoacoustic emissions clinic and cochlear reserve examinations, which are used to diagnose auditory neuropathy spectrum disorder and the integrity of the inner ear.
  • Hearing Aid programming clinic
  • Newborn audiological screening clinic for early detection of hearing impairment.

The services provided by the unit are not limited to a particular department or specialty, as the medical awareness has increased among the people and the unit has gained its direct attendees, in addition to the fact that the unit serves many departments such as pediatric, neurological, neurosurgical, internal medicine, ENT, physiotherapy, renal and other departments and specialties.

The unit examines and provides care and services at least to thirty patients per day, equivalent to 750 patients per month, from various sources such as outpatient clinics and inpatient departments from university and governmental hospitals, as well as serving health insurance patients.

Conducting audiometric screening for school children and factory workers. Develop and implement hearing protection programs from environmental noise

Developing   and   implementing   programs   to   preserve   hearing   in   various industrial environments.

First: The scientific and research activity of the Audiovestibular Unit:

Faculty members and their assistants:

Head of Unit: Professor/ Mohamed Moustafa Abdeltawwab

Professors:

Professor/  Ayman El Sharbasy

Professor/ Hesham Zaghloul

Professor/ Elsaeed Thabet

Assistant Professor:

Dr/ Mohamed Fawzy

Dr/  Elshahat Elshokary

Dr/  Ashraf Morgan

Lecturers :

Dr/ Wesam Elshawaf

Dr/ Ola Elnagdy

Assistant lecturer:

Dr. Nirmeen Fawzy

Dr. Somaya Elgarhy

Resident doctors

In addition to this number, some doctors who are trained and registered to obtain scientific degrees from outside the college.

Second: Awarding Academic Degrees:

• The inclusion of the specialty has been approved by a ministerial decision, and registration has been opened to obtain scientific degrees in this

Specialty since 2005, during which many master's and doctoral degrees were awarded in the specialization of audiovestibular medicine.

Third: Training:

• The unit receives doctors from different cities for training or for obtaining scientific degrees, in its belief in spreading medical awareness in all segments of society and serving the largest number of patients from the governorates of Dakahlia, Kafr El-Sheikh, Damietta and Port Said.
• Participate in training doctors in the scientific courses of the Ministry of Health to train doctors, in order to participate in the program of the National Hearing Screening Screening for Newborns.

Fourth: Teaching:

• The unit conducts an educational activity in the college where the faculty members participate in:

1. Teaching for fourth year students in the
2. Manchester College Program
3. Teaching for master's and doctoral students of ENT
4. Teaching for master's and doctoral students in phoniatrics.

Fifth: Conferences and Scientific Seminars:

1. Holding conferences for audiovestibular disorders, in the presence of all specialists from all over the
2. Participating by attending scientific conferences
3. Participation in the Egyptian Audio Vestibular Medicine Association and in all of its activities including lectures, seminars and scientific conferences
4. Participation in the preparation of scientific symposia and national conferences, whether affiliated with the college or the various scientific departments such as the departments of ear, nose, throat, neurology, internal medicine and