Update: 22.10.2020

Program Qualification Level

MEDICAL IMAGING TECHNIQUES associate degree program (in Bologna Process Higher Education Qualifications Framework, corresponds to short level; in TYYÇ, corresponds to the fifth level ) is an associate degree program mainly focusing on vocational education and application, especially in order to meet the needs of the business world at the relevant field and level and is designed to provide basic knowledge and practical application competencies. The classification and the training are a code, based on "International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011", "Turkey Higher Education Qualifications Framework (TYYÇ)", are given below.

·         ISCED Education Area Code: 72 -Health

·          ISCED Program Qualification Level: 5, Category (Profile): 55, Sub-Category: 554 -Associate degree with an emphasis on vocational training

·         Turkey's Higher Education Qualifications Framework Basic Area Code: 72 -Health

·         Turkey's Higher Education Qualification Framework Qualification Type (profile):  Associate degree with an emphasis on vocational training

Objectives of the Program

The aim of this course is to educate health personnel with the ability to obtain images with medical imaging devices, to make films and get images ready for use, to control and maintain devices and equipment. Medicine is one of the areas where technological advances are most in progress and most adapted. Even until the last quarter of the twentieth century, the technological means for doctors were very limited. In particular, the devices used to show the internal structure of the human body were not sufficiently developed. The best-known imaging method was X-ray devices found in 1895 by Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen. Developments in the past 20-30 years have taken medical science to another era.

Educational Type of Program

Full time

Educational Language of Program

Turkish

Qualification Awarded

The graduates of the program are given an associate degree diploma and the title of ’Medical Imaging Technician" according to the decision of the Executive Board of YOK.

Length and Process of the Program

The duration of education is 4 semesters. In the process of Medical Imaging and Techniques education, a minimum of 120 ECTS must be completed, with the condition that it shouldn't be less than 60 ECTS in an academic year. Our students will do their internship in the relevant departments of training and research hospitals affiliated to the Ministry of Health which has joint (use) protocol with our university. Internship evaluation and applications are done according to the principles of Internship Directions of Vocational School of Health Services.

Application to the Program, Registrations and Admission by Transfer

Acceptance requirements for this program are determined by OSYM in accordance with the relevant legislation of the Higher Education Institution. Possibility of Vertical Transition; Students who complete the program are given the opportunity to pass to the Nursing and Health Services departments according to their score made at DGS. For up-to-date information on these issues, see “Regulations of University of Health Sciences about Graduate Education and Examination".

Job and Academic Career Opportunities for Graduates

Graduates of this program can work under the supervision of specialists in Radiology, Radiotherapy, and Nuclear Medicine departments of public and private health institutions. In addition, they also can work as a health technician in scientific researches carried out at universities in Turkey and abroad.