Faculty of medicine is in the Konuralp campus of the Duzce University. Education is provided for the degree of undergraduate and graduate (Doctor of Medicine)
Domestic and foreign students are accepted to the program. The domestic students who apply for our medical students program can be registered by the exam which is called higher education insttitutions exam (YKS). The foreign students who apply for our program are registered under the directive ‘’ Duzce University, Associate Degree and Graduate Degree Program Admission Guidelines for Foreign Students’’ ..
Each year the degree program accepts mean 85 students in the first year. The total number of all students for degree program in every class is mean 92 since 1996.
The program of undergraduate education in every class is not just elective, the program also consists of compulsory lessons and internships and completion of every year is the pre-condition of the next year.
Students who graduated from Faculty of Medicine can continue their professional life as a general practitioner and also they can participate to the available application courses and join the certificate programs which they will take in family medicine and occupational medicine sectors. Also they have employment opportunities in institutions of private sector. İf they took the exam for speciality in medicine they can also continue their proffesional lives in this area. Specialist physicians who complete their educations of speciality for medicine in Training and Research Hospitals can continue their careers in their own private offices and also in various institutions and organizations. Also they can continue academic careers in medical faculties as a teaching staff or ., pecialist
Duzce University Faculty of Medicine was found in 1992 depending on the Abant Izzet Baysal University, and started to enrollment its first student in 1996. The faculty of Medicine, according to Law No: 5467 in 2006, continuing its education and training depending on the newly was found Duzce University. Our faculty has a dynamic training program which is in accordance with the constantly changing needs of the community and the technical developments in the health system.
For this purpose, the Faculty of Medicine has a system with enriched techniques for interactive presentations, theoretical lesson topics and practical applications (like laboratory, bed-site training and field studies) which is named as ‘’ integrated education system’’. The education process of this system will advance from simplicity to complexity, from the human cell to the human system, from the normal status to the diseases of the human body.
Theoretical lessons are provided in the classrooms and laboratories which are located in Basic Medical Sciences building. Bed-side training are provided in the University Hospital with 350 beds.
The students continue their medical practice in primary health care organizations, civil governmental organizations and various public institutions and organizations.
First, Second and Third Years:
Applied The National Core Curriculum implemented in an integrated educational system to students at the faculty of medicine. This educational system’s main feature is; first,second, and third semesters’ classes is not given according to branches of departments, it is given according to topics. Curtain issue ın education system, such as handling the respiratory system, which is given to this system and related to each other of anatomy, histology, physiology, biochemistry, basic medical sciences or clinical sciences, in order. introducing to students simple, and small functional and structural units in integrated system, increasingly complex systems of the human organism. All of the lecture and laboratuary studies are associated with each other with respect to subject, given to students basic sciences in first term and normal human biology, and basic principle of microbiology in second term. For the third period, to give pathology, pharmacology and pathophysiology of systems in order to prepare the clinic. Non-medical lessons, Principles of Atatürk and Revolution History, Turkish and English lessons are applied as two hours peer week. Prepared the English lessons coordination with the medical lectures which given in Turkish.
Fourth and Fifth Years:
Fourth and fifth term of medical education is divided into clinical internships.
In wards addition to studies on patients and clinical training period V, also are trained in radiology.
In fourth year, students are developing clinical skills to take internships of internal medicine, general surgery, pediatrics, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatric surgery, anesthesia and intensive care, forensic medicine.
In fifth year, students are developing clinical skills to take internships of physical therapy and rehabilitation, orthopedics, neurology, psychiatry, cardiology, chest diseases, otolaryngology, urology, infectious disease, brain and neurological surgery, skin and venereal diseases, radiology, pediatric surgery, anesthesia and intensive care, plastic and reconstructive surgery
Sixth Year:
The sixth year is a the period of intern doctors and completed 12 (twelve) months . This year, students take elective internship of internal medicine, obstetrics and gynecology, pediatrics, public health, emergency medicine, psychiatry, general surgery, family medicine, rural medicine / public health and internal / surgery .
Duzce University , Faculty of Medicine committed a task, which training doctors according to European standards that superior quality undergraduate and postgraduate, to provide quality treatment services and to support preventive health services, to produce medical research in the field high-quality research, to cooperate relevant organizations and institutions actively, to contribute development of the province of Duzce and the development and implementation of medical education in Turkey.
National and international medical education and scientific research in health services, as well as being one of the leading medical schools.
Students who successfully complete the programme will be awarded the Bachelor's Degree and the Master's Degree in Medical Department.
[] Earned Level of Qualification
It is a programme that provides undergraduate and graduate (first cycle-second cycle) education.
[] Admission Requirements
The admission of students to the programmes is made according to the Student Selection and Placement Centre (OSYM – University entrance exam) within the framework set by the regulations of Higher Education Council (HEC). After students inform the Student Selection and Placement Centre about what programmes they want to study at, students are placed in the related programmes according to their scores they got from the exam.
Foreign students are admitted to the related programmes with the scores of internationally acceptable exams such as SAT, ACT or are admitted to the related programmes with their high school graduation grades (Undergraduate and Graduate Programmes for Foreign Students Admission Guidelines).
The admission of students of General Academic Exchange Protocol to the related programmes are done within the framework of the bilateral agreements (ERASMUS, FARABI, etc) signed between Duzce University and the partner universities. Guest students may enrol into the courses in this programme, if the related academic unit approves. Sufficient language knowledge is required to monitor the programme.
[] Course's Contrubution To Program
To complete the available courses in the program (a total of 360 ECTS) successfully, the students have to get at least 60 points out of 100 and required to achieve. Students are also required to complete the compulsory practice in the specified time.
[] Recognition of Prior Learning
Students enrolled in DU might be exempted from certain courses within the framework of certain regulations. A student can be exempted from a certain course provided related course content previously received from another institution complies with that of DU, which is subject to approval and verification by the Board of faculty/graduate school/school.
Recognition of Education Abroad
DU recognises academic terms and courses studied by a student that has been involved in an exchange programme for one or two terms at the universities with which a partnership was established.
Students that are selected to avail themselves of Student Mobility for Studies under ERASMUS are obliged to draw up an education agreement with relevant ERASMUS Unit Coordination prior to the mobility term. The education agreement demonstrates the courses to be studied at the partner university the student intends to go, as well as appropriate ECTS credits.
In addition to this, students shall be asked to issue a Recognition Sheet, which refers to the equivalent of foreign courses in DU, so that the credit transfer is planned and approved.
At the end of the exchange term, the courses studied abroad are recorded and demonstrated in the transcript, together with the original course codes and names and ECTS credits. Pursuant to ERASMUS Programme and Collaboration Agreements concluded thereunto, official transcripts will quote, an abbreviation signal of ET, European Transfer, for the courses studied abroad.
[] Description of Program
The purpose of the program of Faculty of Medicine profession, to educate physicians that; taking into consideration the ethical concepts and applying legal rules, being investigative and inquisitive, adopted lifelong education and developed the ability to self-training, who knows the ways access to information and can apply this information, to have information that solve individual, society and the environment problems affecting the health information and who possess, to explain the clinical and diagnostic characteristics of fizyopatogenezi diseases, can apply diagnosis and treatment for the basic medical approaches, to evaluate the health problems of our country, to have sufficient knowledge, skills and attitudes in order to overcome their first step and to sense the society about the health related training, to know the health authorities and responsibilities of current knowledge in the field of law.
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Program Requirements |
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Describe the normal structure and functions of the organism. |
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Explain pathogenesis of diseases and the clinical features according to biopsychosocial model |
3 |
Take the patient’s story and apply the general-system based on physical examination. |
4 |
Treat life-threatening emergency diseases and transport the patient when needed. |
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Perform basic medical procedures necessary for diagnosis and treatment of diseases. |
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Apply ethical principles of the art of medicine |
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Delivery of health services, knows management, organization and financing and can do practiceand of medical the legal rules and risk management |
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Apply the principles of preventive medicine, may cooperate with other relevant stakeholders in order to protect the health ofsociety and individuals |
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Do scientific research, transfer the scientific and technological developments to professional practice |
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Know at least one common foreign language good enough to keep up with current medical literature and to update his/her knowledge and use statistics and computer programmes to evaluate scientific studies. |
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Being able to communicate effectively with patients and their relatives. |
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Adopts lifelong education in the field of medicine and health services and can improve self-education skills. |
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Faculty of Medicine Program Qualifications
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[] Professional Profile of Graduates
Published in the Official Gazette dated 04.14.1928 and numbered 863 Law on the Practice of Medicine and Medical Sciences, and any way be exercised regardless of the Republic of Turkey within the tababet practice medicine who medical doctor.Some of the institutions and organizations where graduates may find a place for work can be listed as mother and child care centres, family practice, universities, hospitals, Ministry of Health, research centres of pharmaceutical industries, and hospital management.
[] The Upper Stage of a Transition
Graduate students of this program may apply for studying in post-graduate programmes, or apply to a residency program to become a specialist doctor.
The Faculty of Medicine Graduate Program is arranged as 360 ECTS credits.
[] Examinations, Assessment and Grading
For each course, the method of assessment and grading is defined "Course Information Form" in details.
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[] Graduation Requirements
Managed the recording courses of faculty of medicine training programs, shown Duzce University School of Medicine Education and Examinations Regulation in the course and internship programs;
a) Term I and Term II courses are successfully completed up to four semester if they decide to leave the university, and his former associate's degree is the basic medical sciences.
b) The six-year education programs in the Faculty of Medicine have successfully completed the Doctor of Medicine Degree of Doctor of Medicine is prescribed.
[] Dean and Assistant Deans
Acting Dean
Prof. Dr. Muhammet Ali KAYIKÇI
E-Mail:muhammetkayikci@duzce.edu.tr