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Mexico Education
and training Phoniatrics
in Mexico has never belonged to ENT, only to Human Communication
Medicine. Associations
Mexican Audiology and Phoniatrics Association. Mexican Council for Audiology, Phoniatrics, Otoneurology and Human Communication. Medical Association of the National Institute of Human Communication. Web link: www.centrodefoniatria.com Addendum Phoniatry
in Mexico is an independent specialty in the field of voice,
speech and language. It is not an official subspecialty to ENT.
We have only one university department and 5 doctors working
in the field. The main personality in the field is Contact
The Latin American Regional Center for Phoniatrics and Voice Care Taken from IFOS Newsletter August/September 1990 This report is compiled from various communications from Hans von Leden, former Chairman of the IFOS Standing Committee on Phoniatrics and Voice Care, from Francisco Hernandez Orozco, former IFOS General Secretary and Chairman of the IFOS Standing Committee on Continuing Education, Director of the National Human Communication Institute in Mexico City, and from Severino Tarasco, Head of the Latin American Center for Phoniatrics and Voice Care. The Center was officially inaugurated on November 30, 1988 at its Headquarters in the National Institute of Human Communication “Dr. Andrés Bustamante Gurria” in Mexico City, by the Minister of Health Dr. Jesus Kumate and in the presence of Dr. Hans von Leden, then Chairman of the IFOS Standing Committee on Phoniatrics and Voice Care. It has been established on instigation of the World Health Organization, the PanAmerican Health Organization and IFOS. The objectives of this Center are to maintain communication with delegates of all Latin American countries, to organize and promote diffusion and training of this discipline at different levels, and to reinforce the activities of the Phoniatrics Department of the National Human Communication Institute (NHCI). Those training levels will be based on the interest of residents in ORL and Phoniatrics in furthering their knowledge in different aspects of our specialty. These training programs will be developed with the official support and help of scientific organizations such as the American Academy of ORL, H & N Surgery, etc.. Depending on the specialization of the resident, the program will have different degrees, both in the basic sciences and in clinical practice : for Phoniatricians the existing program of the NHCI will be followed; for graduated Otolaryngologists and Phoniatricians, seminars will be held with topics on Phoniatrical basic sciences as a form of continued medical education. Further, an introductory course will be organized for Phoniatricians selected for an extensive course in functional laryngeal surgery. This course will require the participation of a foreign faculty and will take one to two weeks. When a resident has passed the exam finalizing this introductory course, he will be eligible to be accepted in a one-year Phonosurgical residency at the NHCI. The same course can also be taken as a Master degree. For Otolaryngologists and Laryngologists, there will be short courses prior to the annual congresses of the Mexican Society of ORL and’ of the Federation of ORL Societies of the Mexican Republic. There will also be conferences at the meetings of these associations and one annual general course, mainly . directed to residents in ORL, on topics of diagnosis, prognosis, treatment and prevention of general phoniatric diseases. The Center had not been possible without the support of the National Human Communication Institute’s Director and staff. Any further development in order to fulfill the goals set for the Latin American Center for Phoniatrics and Voice Care requires increase of personnel and equipment. In April 1989, Dr. von Leden through the Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem donated material for Surgery and for Medical Examination. In June, medical equipment and furniture for installing two offices for the Phoniatrics Center were also donated through the above Order of Chivalry. Both donations have been inventoried, classified and incorporated in the NHC Institute’s patrimony At the national congress of ORL in Mexico in May 1989, a special lecture on Phoniatrics and Voice Care was given to make the Center known to the audience. A presentation was also given at the session on Phoniatrics during the XIV World Congress of ORL in Madrid in September 1989. The Center further promotes its activities through Middle and South America and the Carribean. At present, the Center has begun the clinical training in ORL of the undergraduate medical students. The courses, at different levels, given in Otolaryngology, Medicine of Communicative Disorders, Phoniatrics and Audiology, will be intensified. For
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