KEY POINTS:
  1. Noise exposure either occupational or recreational is the leading preventable cause of hearing impairment
  2. 96.4% of medical students used electroacoustic devices with insert type earphone being the most common connected to a smartphone
  3. Low frequency (250-500Hz) sensorineural hearing loss was found among more than 30% of medical students
  4. Most of the students having hearing loss at Pure Tone Audiometry were unaware of their hearing loss and did not complain tinnitus
  5. Specific bandwidth acoustic trauma can affect audiometric frequencies other than conventionally described hence require management accordingly