Madras ENT Research Foundation has to its credit numerous academic achievements. The consultants and students regularly publish articles in international and national journals and participate regularly in various national and international conferences. Consultants and students have won many Prestigious Gold medals and awards in academic events.

Madras ENT Research Foundation hosts scientific workshops and conferences on a regular basis. The hands-on temporal bone workshop conducted three times a year is immensely popular amongst young ENT surgeons across the country and abroad. Other workshops regularly conducted include Laser workshops, Audiology workshops and Cochlear Implant workshops. All this has given the institution the respectability that it enjoys in the academic world. The culmination of its academic achievement was the recognition by the National Board of Examinations as a post-graduate center, for training post-graduate students in the field of Otolaryngology, Head and Neck surgery.

This department is headed by Dr. R. S. Anand Kumar. .

The institution is also recognized by the Armed Forces for higher training of their ENT specialists.
MERF also receives several overseas fellows each year who receive training in advanced surgical techniques in the specialty.