THE ORTHOPEDIC UNIT

The department has a wide range of specialties including nonsurgical treatment for arthritis, artificial joint replacement for hip and knee, total, primary, unicompartmental and revision joint replacement, performing operations using navigation, computer assisted surgery or custom-made cutting guides, follow-up with previously made joint replacement as well as trauma and fractures. All specialties are supervised by orthopedic consultants within the hospital. It provides immediate care for road accidents and work injuries and special treatment for hip and pelvis fractures in elderly people

October 6 University

The October 6 University is the first private university in the republic of Egypt established by the presidential decree number 243 in 1996. It joined the union of Arabic Universities since 1997. The University includes fourteen Faculties, University Hospital, and two hotels for male and female students. It has also established a center for quality assurance and accreditation having units in all the faculties, to enhance and disseminate quality culture. The University comprises a modern library, equipped with state of the art audio/visual technology, a large collection of books and references, spacious conference and reading halls, and connected through the internet to several electronic library networks. Additionally, the university has established a center of excellence for training and human development to enhance and transfer practical expertise in all production sectors.

The University campus consists of four educational buildings, hospital, gardens and playgrounds, as shown in the following figure. The total area of the campus amounts to 170,000 square meters. The total number of students in the university is about 14,085 from 48 different nationalities which represent about 41% of the total number of students.

See link: http://o6u.edu.eg/dpagesuni.aspx?FactId=0&id=598

October 6 University, is one of the Egyptian leading private faculties, that has been established at 1996 according to the presidential republican decree No. 242.
It is located at 6 October city, Giza governorate 50 Km West Cairo.
It is dedicated from the beginning, to offer high-quality medical education to medical students and graduate physicians.
Teaching, health care service and scientific experience are offered by excellent well selected medical staff recruited from the most reputable and leading Egyptian Faculties of Medicine.

Our students are supported by a well-equipped hospital. The hospital facilities are sufficient enough to provide the pre-requisite clinical training essential for the acquisition of clinical skills by medical students and are in continuous contact and collaboration with the famous local and international medical institutes and professional centers.

October 6 University is looking forward to achieve the international eminence as an academic institution for continuing medical education, clinical research and practice.
Faculty of Medicine succeeded to get the Local and regional accreditation as one of the leading private medical schools.
The first batch of students was graduated on Feb. 2002. Now we are on the steps of getting the international accreditation supported by the World Health Organization.
WHO confirmed the inclusion of Faculty of Medicine October 6 university in the WHO World Directory of Medical Schools. Now graduates of the college are eligible to apply to and sit for PLAB section of the British Council in Cairo and the General Medical Council of the United kingdom and other professional tests after fulfilling the requirement of the internship year of training.
Also The Minister of Health agreed to accept our graduate for getting the Egyptian fellowship certificates.

See link: http://o6u.edu.eg/Faculties.aspx?FactId=2&id=78

Our staff

Mahmoud A Hafez, FRCS Ed, MD, Professor and Head of the Orthopaedic Unit, October 6 University

Ahmed El-Morsy, MRCS, Fellow of the European Board of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Lecturer of Orthopaedics, October 6 University

Ahmed Tamer, MSc, Assistant Lecturer of Orthopaedics - October 6 University Hospital

Clinical Fellows

Mohamed Mosa, Assistant Lecturer, Assiut University

Sharafeldin M.S Ibrahim, Lecturer, Kordofan University

Specialists

• Sherif Ismaiel, Orthopaedic Specialist

• Islam Abo Yosef, Orthopaedic Specialist

• Hythem Abdel Hamid, Orthopaedic Specialist

• Rami Bakheet, Orthopaedic Specialist

• Mustafa Hamdi, Orthopaedic Specialist

Head Of International Affairs

• Dr. Michael Maher Fahmy Youssef

Trainees

• Karim Hamdy Abdel Kader, Resident of Orthopaedics

• Mark Ashraf, Resident of Orthopaedics

• Ahmad Adel, Visiting Resident of Orthopaedics

• Ahmed shenawy, Visiting Resident of Orthopaedics

• Mostafa El Nemr, Visiting Resident of Orthopaedics

Researchers

• Abdul-Rahman Elshafei, Biomedical Engineering

• Nada Ibrahim, Science

• Ismail Rashad, Clinical Research Fellow

• Hosamuddin Hamza, Dentistry

• Abdullah Ammoura, Biotechnology

• Ahmed Abdel El Mughny, Computer Scientist

• Ahmed Ibrahim, Engineer

• Mariam Mounir, Undergraduate.  

Visiting Consultants to October 6 University Hospital