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Prosthetics and Orthotics

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About the Program

Advances in science have enabled the development of prosthetic and orthotic devices that replace or support body parts, compensate for missing limbs, and enhance the function of impaired ones. This program is the first Bachelor’s degree in Prosthetics and Orthotics in Egypt and the Middle East and Africa after Jordan. The field began after World War II, when wood was initially used to manufacture prosthetics, before evolving to plastic and later to advanced designs using modern materials such as aluminum and titanium alloys, plastic, and rubber, with computers now playing a key role in manufacturing. Prosthetics and orthotics aim to rehabilitate individuals who have lost limbs due to accidents or disease by improving their quality of life, helping them adapt, and enabling them to become active members of society. Orthotic devices specifically control or support movement, assist in fracture recovery, reduce pain, and help weakened muscles perform daily activities.

Program Vision

Providing advanced educational and technological services at a global quality level that meets and keeps pace with the needs of the labor market and society in the field of orthotics and prosthetics

 

Program Message

Meeting the needs of the local, regional and international labor market of qualified technologists in the field of equipment technology calendar and industrial parties to achieve a competitive advantage for the technological graduates of the program within the framework of high professional ethics.

 

Program Objectives

The program aims to prepare a first technician and technology specialist in prosthetics and orthotics
To provide a distinguished service for amputees and ensuring their adequate rehabilitation and reintegration into the labor market where the patient turns from a burden on the economy to a productive individual
To stop the bleeding of resources that were spent in this field without a real return on the patient and society
To contribute to Egypt's restoration of its leading role in the region in medical tourism, as amputees are in the Middle East region is steadily increasing as a result of wars, tensions and terrorism
To establish the first bachelor’s program in prosthetics and orthotics as a foundational step toward developing the field, followed by creating specialized colleges to graduate qualified professionals for the labor market and advance the discipline as a whole.
Having highly trained university graduates is essential for developing the components industry, reducing reliance on imports to only high-tech parts, and supporting the state’s capacity-building policies. The success of this experience supports its expansion, as graduates are in a rare and highly demanded specialty, with expected growing demand from neighboring countries.
The university can easily market this type of study and receive or interact with a specific percentage of international students. Arab and African countries with appropriate expenses that lead to maximizing resources and covering a large part of the expenses themselves without additional burdens on the state