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Medicine
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 QF-EHEA: First Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 6

General Information

In this integrated medical curriculum, from cell to the human body, premedical sciences like behavioral sciences, medical biology and genetics together with core medical sciences such as anatomy, histology and embryology, physiology, medical microbiology, medical biochemistry are given to the medical student. After this basic medical courses, in the fourth year of medical education, students enter to the clinical rotations period. Students are couraged by the faculty members for contact with the patients directly at the bedside. They have to work in out-patient, in-patient, laboratory, emergency room, operation theater facilities under supervision of the attendant physicians. These rotations are known as the clinical clerkship that includes pediatric health and diseases, internal medicine, gynecology and obstetrics, general surgery and other rotations necessary. In the sixth year, students before graduation, works as an “intern” for one year by a rotation schedule in the hospitals.