The Department of Otolaryngology of the First Affiliated Hospital of Yunnan University of Traditional Chinese Medicine is the only comprehensive department integrating medical treatment, scientific research and teaching, which integrates national key specialties and national key disciplines。After years of hard work, the department of Otolaryngology has developed into a professional department with the characteristics of integrated Chinese and Western medicine and key specialized diseases。Among them, the research of rhinopathy, allergic disease, throat disease, tinnitus and deafness have formed a system。The department staff has formed a reasonable academic echelon in terms of age, title and educational structure. The department has 2 professors (including Professor Guo Zhaogang, a famous Chinese medicine practitioner in Yunnan Province), 4 associate professors, 4 lecturers, 2 doctoral degrees, 5 master's degrees, and 3 master's supervisors。The Department is a professional point of national new drug clinical trials approved by the State Food and Drug Administration, and has participated in more than 20 national new drug phase II and Phase III clinical observations。"Otolaryngology of Traditional Chinese Medicine" and "Otolaryngology of Integrated Chinese and Western Medicine" have become the backbone disciplines of Yunnan College of Traditional Chinese Medicine, with stable research direction and distinctive characteristics, and have now become the key disciplines and key specialty construction units of the "Twelfth Five-Year Plan" of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine。
另外，The Department cooperates with Otorhinolaryngology Hospital, the First Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou，Since 1999，Professor Xu Geng and Professor Shi Jianbo, head of the National Nasal Endoscopic Surgery Team and doctoral supervisor, were invited as visiting professors，To guide the treatment of nasal polyps, sinusitis, inverted papilloma, intranasal and orbital masses and cerebrospinal fluid leakage，Cultivate a group of business backbone。
In 2012, the discipline successfully declared and became the "Twelfth Five-Year" major specialty construction unit of the State Administration of Traditional Chinese Medicine。