MEDICINE PROGRAMME (English)

LEVEL: Bachelor's Degree, TYYÇ: Level 6, EQF-LLL: Level 6, QF-EHEA: First Cycle

Our School of Medicine that has started education in 2013-2014 provides 100 % English education and following its starting of education, it has been chosen by many students in the country and accepting many students also from abroad. Its life of education continues in the Bakirkoy Campus since 2016-2017, which was started in the Mahmutbey Campus, with the support of Altinbas Holding, and in the body of Istanbul Altınbaş University, affiliated with the hospitals of the Medical Park Health Group.

Aim

  • 1. To raise individuals who are educated with a medical education that applies innovative education methods as well as traditional methods, have research competence, and provide human-centered health services at national and international levels.
  • 2. To provide nationally and internationally accredited health services that prioritize the health problems of our country and region.
Objective

  • 1. To produce graduates with international medical education competencies; - Able to contribute to the development of the national health service with existing and developing knowledge in biomedical, clinical, epidemiological, social and behavioral sciences, to use them in preventive and curative health services, to be sensitive to public health issues, committed to ethical values, to the solution of the country's health problems and to the development of medical science. It trains physicians who can conduct research that will contribute to universal development.
  • 2. To encourage academic and administrative staff to attend regular training by giving importance to their in-service training, and to regularly measure the reflection of the gains on medical faculty education and patient services.
  • 3. Considering that health care is a team work, to encourage teamwork among academic staff and students by organizing joint programs with dentistry, pharmacy faculty and health vocational schools located on the same campus.
  • 4. To investigate the causes of health problems in our region, the effects of migration and all kinds of discrimination on health problems, in cooperation with local governments, and to develop suggestions for solving the problems.
  • 5. To conduct joint research with academicians in regional countries on the common diseases of our international patients.
Qualification Awarded

Students who complete this program successfully are granted Bachelor Degree in Medicine.

Level of Qualification

This program is at Bachelor’s level (Level 6) and presents Bachelor’s Degree in the field of Medicine.

Field of Education

Health

Specific Admission Requirements

Enrolment of students in programs at Bachelor’s and vocational degree levels in Turkey is done according to the results of a centrally-organized two-stage exam (YGS and LYS), according to the Higher Education Act, and the candidate’s being at least high school graduate is imperative. Centre for Student Selection and Placement (OSYM) places students into programs they are willing to study according to their scores in the central placement exam and high school scores. Students from abroad are accepted according to the criteria that are determined by the Foreign Student Acceptance Commission of our university.

Specific Arrangements For Recognition Of Prior Learning (Formal, Non-Formal and Informal)

Recognition of prior learning is subject to the framework bylaws at national level set by the Council of Higher Education and to the related bylaws of Istanbul Altınbaş University. Transfer of students among programs within the university is done according to quotas determined by the executive councils of the relevant schools. Quotas are determined by the relevant executive councils as a percentage of the total quotas specified in the OSYM Guide every year. Transfer quotas among programs within the university are announced at the university web page before a certain period of time from the application deadline together with the minimum scores and the other requirements. In order for application for transfer within the university among programs of different central placement exam score types, the score of the applicant in the central placement exam for the exam score type of the program to be applied should not be lower than the score of the student who is placed countrywide in a program of the same type with the lowest basal score. Students who complete vocational school programs and the open university programs may apply for horizontal transfer to the Bachelor’s Degree programs. Students who are the graduates or last year students of vocational schools at the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus and the graduates of foreign schools with the same conditions, whose equivalency is accepted in Turkey, may apply for horizontal transfer to the Bachelor’s Degree programs. Graduates and the last year students of vocational schools who admit students by the central placement exam or by special exams should take the DGS exam to transfer horizontally to the Bachelor’s Degree programs.

Qualification Requirements and Regulations

Students who successfully complete this program earn a Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine.

Profile of the Programme

The School of Medicine at Istanbul Altınbaş University aims to educate its students as exceptional medical doctors in their field with their knowledge and communication skills in the field. Students at the School of Medicine at Istanbul Altınbaş University meet with the realities of the health area, gain experience before graduation through clinical practice, and have the chance to meet with and gain from their experiences of the leading academicians and professionals in the field, through elective courses, conferences and seminars.

Occupational Profiles of Graduates With Examples

The graduates of this program work as medical doctors in the public and the private hospitals and in the health sectors. The graduates of this program are equipped with fundamental and technical knowledge and communication skills, foreign language skills and teamwork skills in order to be able to work in these areas.

Access to Further Studies

Students who graduate from this program can apply for studying at programs at graduate level.

Graduation Requirements

Students who successfully complete this program can graduate.

Mode of Study (Full-Time, Formal Education )

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Facilities

Our Faculty has medical skills laboratory, anatomy laboratory, pathology, histology, embryology education laboratory and biochemistry, physiology, biophysics education laboratory. Besides, other than additional laboratory spaces, there is an R&D laboratory that includes cell culture laboratory and common laboratory space and a research laboratory that includes molecular analysis and detection laboratory, bioorganic synthesis laboratory, clinical microbiology and biosensor laboratory, and again a common research space. There are amphitheatres and classes for theoretical lectures, computer laboratory, and a library that also enables remote access. Besides containing hard-copy books in the field of medicine, our library has subscriptions to the databases where publications in the field of medicine can be accessed.

Address, Programme Director or Equivalent

Prof. Dr. Tunç FIŞGIN (DEAN) E-posta: tunc.fisgin@altinbas.edu.tr Assoc. Prof. Dr. Menekşe Sıla YAZAR (Bologna Faculty Coordinator) Asist. Prof. Dr. Zeynep TANER (Bologna Faculty Coordinator) E-mail: menekse.yazar@altinbas.edu.tr zeynep.taner@altinbas.edu.tr

ECTS Coordinator

  • Assoc. Prof. Dr. MENEKŞE SILA YAZAR
  • Assist. Prof. Dr. ZEYNEP KURT