Academic

Update: 22.11.2020

Program Qualification Level

According to the Turkey Higher Education Qualifications Framework (TYYÇ), the Undergraduate Program of Faculty of Medicine is in the Basic Area of Health and its education level is at level 7. It is also level 2 according to the Qualification Framework for European Higher Education Area (QF-EHEA) and level 7 according to the European Qualifications Framework for Lifelong Learning (EQF-LLL).

Objectives of the Program

The main objective of Adana Faculty of Medicine is to train physicians who have sufficient knowledge and skills in the field of medicine, who closely follow national and international scientific and technological developments and use them effectively, who can adapt to innovations and have the awareness of lifelong learning and evidence-based decision-making, who are investigative and questioning in professional and academic fields and think critically, who can perform medicine profession in health institutions and organizations at all levels, who have effective communication skills, who give importance to teamwork and can solve the problems encountered for the first time, and who can produce appropriate solutions by dominating the health problems at national and universal levels and manage to establish a connection between medical science and the health needs of the society. Our faculty provides bilingual education. With this bilingual education, the aim is both to contribute to the spread of Turkish as an education and science language in the international arena and to enable individuals, who will practice medicine in our globalized world, to serve in multiple languages, whose behaviors are in accordance with the medical profession, who work for the purpose of serving the country and humanity, and who understand their patients and responsible for them by adopting all universal ethical principles.

Educational Type of Program

Full time

Educational Language of Program

Turkish

Qualification Awarded

Students who successfully complete all theoretical and practical courses, clinical applications and exams graduate with a Master's Degree and receive the title of Medical Doctor

Length and Process of the Program

Education is organized in a competence/output-oriented and fully integrated manner at Adana Medical Faculty of University of Health Sciences. In the first three years of education based on course boards, the first two years are mainly focused on normal structure and functions of systems, and the introduction to pathologies and clinical sciences, and system pathologies are discussed in the last board of the second year and in the third year. Internship training of the students who have grasped the basic medical knowledge with their clinical connections in the first three years are conducted in

the 4th and 5th years. The sixth year is on an internship basis, which allows students to practice under supervision. In addition, students are offered elective courses they may prefer. For graduation, it is necessary to successfully complete the courses in the 6-year education program of the medical faculty with a total of 360 ECTS.

Application to the Program, Registrations and Admission by Transfer

For the information, have a look at “SAĞLIK BİLİMLERİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ ÖNLİSANS VE LİSANS EĞİTİM-ÖĞRETİM VE SINAV YÖNETMELİĞİ” and “SAĞLIK BİLİMLERİ ÜNİVERSİTESİ TIP FAKÜLTESİ EĞİTİM ÖĞRETİM VE SINAV YÖNERGESİ.”

Job and Academic Career Opportunities for Graduates

Medical faculty graduates can be employed as general practitioners with the title of Medical Doctor mainly in family health centers and community health centers in primary health care under the compulsory service law, in the units of the Ministry of Health and public and private health institutions after compulsory service. Those who pass the Specialty Examination in Medicine start their specialist training in university hospitals or training and research hospitals belonging to the Ministry of Health and then acquire the title of Specialist Doctor. In addition, graduates who have the diploma of Medical Doctor can apply to Ph.D.’ programs in the Basic Medical Sciences Departments within the Institutes of Health Sciences of the universities. Upon successful completion of their studies, they graduate with the title of Doctor of Philosophy in Medical Sciences. Then they can be employed as lecturers in related departments of universities and they can take part in academic staff.