Faculty of Medicine

INTRODUCTION

he department of Otorhinolaryngology was established in 1974. It’s one of the clinical departments of the faculty of medicine, Zagazig university. The department is mainly located at the fifth floor of the new surgery hospital with many subunits distributed in the outpatient clinic and emergency building.

The department of otorhinolaryngology provides clinical as well as academic services. At the clinical level, our different subunits provide medical service for patients of Sharkeya and nearby regions. At the academic level, the department provides educational service for the fourth year undergraduate medical students; as well as postgraduate studies (Doctoral degree, Master degree, and diploma). We also have members in the department sharing in the family medicine educational programs and the Egyptian fellowship programs.

In the last few years, the department has witnessed a lot of progress in the field of the clinical service by introducing new surgeries and specialized units. Also, in the field of teaching, modern methods of teaching are used to maximize the benefit of booth under and postgraduate students.

The aim of our department is trying to keep with the recent advances which occur worldwide at our field, provide distinguished service for our patients and students and perform research which could benefit our community.

DEPARTMENT UNITS

The department of Otorhinolaryngology is composed of the following units:

(1) General Otolaryngology: which include the following subunits:

• Otology.
• Rhinology and skull base surgery.
• Head and neck surgery.
• Laryngology and Laser.
• Maxillofacial surgery.
• Pediatric Otolaryngology.

(2) Audiology unit.

(3) Phoneatrics unit.

DEPARTMENT INFRASTRUCTURE

The various activities of the department take place in the following sites:

-The outpatient clinic: which is located in the fifth floor of outpatient clinics building. It includes 2 rooms(3 stations) for outpatient services, a room for endoscopic diagnostic procedures and 2 teaching halls for the undergraduates.

-The phoneatrics unit: also located in the fifth floor of the outpatient clinics building.

-The audiology unit: located in the first floor of the new surgery hospital building.

-The emergency unit: located in the 3^rdfloor of the emergency building (5 beds).

-The operation theatre: we have 3 rooms in the operation theatre which is located in the 2^ndfloor of the new surgery hospital building. Surgeries are performed 5 days a week by 5 groups of staff.

-The inpatient department: located in the 5^thfloor of the new surgery hospital building. It’s the main body of the department and includes 2 suites; one for men (25 beds) and one for women (20 beds) and the intensive care unit of the department (8 beds). It also includes 2 teaching rooms for teaching the under and post graduates, and also used for holding the department mini-seminars, grand rounds and journal club meetings. The staff rooms are also located in a separate suite in the same floor.

CLINICAL SURVICES

uring the year 2006, the outpatient clinic received 22,569 patients. There were 2,208 surgeries performed in the department. The following table summarizes the size of the clinical work in the department during the years 2000, 2004, 2006:

TEACHING FOR THE UNDERGRADUATE

The process of undergraduate teaching takes place in the outpatient clinic and the inpatient department where 4 separate halls (air-conditioned and equipped with projectors and computers) are used. The students of the fourth year of the undergraduate program attend the clinical rounds in the department in 16 groups. In addition, through the year lectures are given every Sunday and tusday in the undergraduate faculty hall. Modern methods of teaching are used including power point presentations and audio-visual methods. A student log book was developed in the department including all about the ENT course specifications. It’s distributed to the students and was used to distribute the knowledge about what are the activities required from the students. It was also used as a tool for ascertaining students’ attendance of the clinical rounds. Small group teaching has helped a lot in the teaching process as reflected on student's satisfaction in the student's evaluation questionnaire.

POSTGRADUATE TEACHING

The process of postgraduate teaching takes place regularly in the inpatient department where grand rounds are given in the postgraduate teaching halls. All the department professors share in these grand rounds. A logbook for the postgraduates was also developed in the department. It includes all the necessary requirements of the postgraduate which should be fulfilled before being legible to attend the final exam. The department offers the Diploma, the master and doctoral degrees.

Scientific activities

A scientific committee was developed in the department which undertook the regulation of the scientific activities of the department. A preplanned program of scientific talks is prepared and announced for the whole year and a regular meeting attended by the whole staff members is held regularly every Thursday.

LINKS WITH OTHER UNIVERSITIES AND COMMITTEES

The department has links with many national and international universities:

-National universities: we have connections with all national universities specially, Ain shams, Cairo, Alexandria, Suiz canal, Mansoura, Banha university and the armed forces medical academy.

-International universities: Pittsburgh (USA), Tennessee (USA), Yale (USA), U.L.P (Belgium) and Miami where channel fellowships took place and visiting professors from these universities visited the department and shared in its conferences and performed live surgeries in the department.

-Committees: the department has strong links with the Egyptian Society of Otolaryngology, Egyptian society of head and neck oncology, Rhinoalex, and Delta society of otolaryngology.

-The department has invited some visiting pioneer professors who performed a lot of specialized surgeries that shared in increasing the experience and abilities of our staff:

• Prof. Dr. Zakareya Elraei (Armed forces institute).
• Prof. Dr. Waheed Yousry (Cairo University, Oncology institute).
• Prof. Dr. Mohamad Refaei (Cairo University, Otolaryngology).
• Prof. Dr. Badreldeen Mostafa (Ain Shams university)
• Prof. Dr Hasan Wahba (Ain Shams university)
• Prof. Dr Mohamad A. Refaat (National cancer institute)
• Prof. Dr Hesham Elsebaaei (National cancer institute)
• Prof Dr Ayman Abdelwahab (National cancer institute)
• Prof. Dr Mokhtar Bsssiony (Alexandria University)

HUMAN RESOURCES

Chairmen of the departmentfrom its establishment till now:

• Prof Dr. Abdelmonem Ali
• Prof Dr. Hafez Bahgat
• Prof Dr. Emad Rasmy
• Prof Dr. Nader Abdelhamid
• Prof Dr. Abdelfattah Hasan
• Prof Dr. Abdelzaher Tantawy
• Prof Dr. Ahmed Soliman
• Prof Dr. Abdelbaset Rashad
• Prof Dr. Amro Elsenbawy.

Staff faculty members:

(1)Professors:

• Prof Dr. Abdelzaher Tantawy (chairman)
• Prof Dr. Nader Abdelhamid
• Prof Dr. Ahmad Soliman
• Prof Dr. Mohamad Rafat
• Prof Dr. Amro Elsenbawy
• Prof Dr. Mohamad Elwageez
• Prof Dr. Alaa Elfeky
• Prof Dr. Mohamad Mobasher
• Prof Dr. Said Abou-Elezz
• Prof Dr. Mohamad Talat
• Prof Dr. Ezz Elshikh
• Prof Dr. Gamal Abdelhamid
• Prof Dr. Magdy Abdallah
• Prof Dr. Ahmad Esmat
• Prof Dr. Ezzat Moroad
• Prof Dr. Yehia Abou-Shab
• Prof Dr. Tarek Abdelmoty
• Prof Dr. Atef Elbahrawy
• Prof Dr. Samir Soror
• Prof Dr. Magdy Abdelfattah

• Prof Dr. Naser Nageeb Dr. Adly Tantawy
• Prof Dr. Magdy Beder
• Prof Dr. Ahmad Elhady
• Prof Dr. Ahmad Gaber
• Prof Dr. Magdy Kamel
• Prof Dr. Atef Hamed
• Prof Dr. Magdy Goda
• Prof Dr. Khaled Abdelshakour
• Prof Dr. Tarek Abdelzaher

(2)Assistant professors:

• Dr. Gamal Lotfy

• Dr. Mohamad Salah Dr. Waleed Basha
• Dr. Sherif Askar
• Dr. Mostafa Hasan
• Dr. Ismail Elnashar

(3)Lecturers:

• Dr. Sameh Mohamad

• Dr. Hazem Said
• Dr. Abdelraoof Said
• Dr. Mohamad Waheed
• Dr. Wael Fayez
• Dr. Ahmad Enany
• Dr. Said Abdelmonem
• Dr. Atef Hosin

• Dr. Ashraf Elmalt
• Ahmad Nofal
• Alaa Khazbak

(4)Assistant lecturesrs:

• Dr. Ahmad Ibrahim
• Ahmad Shaker

• Yasser Fouad
• Mohamad Adel
• Mohamad Abdelbary
• Ashraf Elhosiny

(5)Residents: