The program includes audiology, speech-linguistic science and relevant rehabilitation medicine fields and is a new-emerging discipline that integrates medicine, science, industry, and social science. Among them, audiology is a science to research people’s auditory function, diagnosis and rehabilitation of dysfunction, auditory damage and safety protection. In the current stage, the audiology in our country mainly focuses on the prevention and healthcare, diagnosis and treatment and intervention and rehabilitation of hearing and also involves linguistic and psychological issues arising from hearing disorder. The hearing discipline team of SJTUSM enjoys a high reputation at home and abroad and is devoted to leading China’s development of audiology.

The program aims to cultivate professionals who can be competent for medical technology work, with R&D ability and global vision, rigorous and realistic scientific spirit and critical thinking. Distinctive courses include anatomy, lemology foundation, preventive healthcare, health statistics, laboratory animal science, audiology foundation, otorhinolaryngologic diseases outline, diagnostic audiology, hearing-aid and auxiliary equipment, Artificial hearing technology, child audiology, rehabilitation audiology, macroaudiology, vestibular medicine, speech science foundation and speech-linguistic rehabilitation.

Graduates are engaged in hearing inspection, diagnosis, invention and rehabilitation of hearing and speech as well as hearing health management work in major comprehensive hospitals or medical institutions. Some of the graduates will be devoted to teaching, scientific research, application research and development and clinical promotion and other development work in colleges and universities, scientific research institutes, and hearing equipment and hearing-aid device enterprises. Excellent students can pursue graduate degree at SJTUSM without participating in examination or go abroad for study.