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Cartoon and Animation
Department of Cartoon and Animation is a field that is based on the theory and practice of synthesizing science with art and virtual reality. The Department of Cartoon and Animation, which is, from one point of view, the future of communication sciences, aims to transfer the theoretical knowledge in the field of communication by supporting them with practical training. In this field, it is aimed to train well-equipped professionals and artists that the sector and universities need.
Digital Game Design
The Digital Game Design Department aims to provide students with the necessary theoretical and practical skills in game design and creation.
Journalism
The journalism profession is not only the oldest of the communication professions, it is also a profession that the need for it will never end. And this is because journalism is a profession that provides the news and information necessary for citizens to make the right decisions, especially in democratic societies.
Visual Communication Design
The advances in digital communication Technologies with the rapidly expanding use of multimedia make visual designs increasingly important in media. The importance of visual communication and the need for equipped professionals trained in this field and its tools reveal the importance of visual communication design education in communication once again.
Public Relations and Publicity
It is a branch of the profession that deals with methods and techniques for creating strong representation environments in the public sphere such as publicity, image, propaganda, and advertising with the development of modern social structure, democratic system and free-market economy.
Radio, Television and Cinema
The mass media such as radio, television, and cinema are becoming more important in the world, a world that has turned into a small village thanks to technology. This situation requires the mass media should be considered a social and scientific phenomenon besides being a tool in communication. In parallel with the rapid expansion of mass media, the training of professionals who will work in various fields of mass communication such as radio, television, and cinema also gains importance. For this reason, it is of great importance to plan the information and message that will be produced in these areas and that will be transferred to the society in a way that will benefit the people from production to distribution processes and even to the use of it. This is possible by bringing qualified professionals to the mass media sector.
Advertising
In today's advanced industrial societies, advertising design and communication is becoming increasingly important. The Department of Advertising is established to train qualified personnel to meet the needs of related sectors with its rigidly based academic tools, as well as having intellectual knowledge. The faculty offers a four-year undergraduate program with a qualified academic staff, and a curriculum suitable for responding to the student's interests, abilities, and orientations.
New Media and Journalism
The internet, which has been developed in the age of information technologies, was the beginning of a new era for humanity. Along with the internet, many different structural and functional transformation processes have begun in the field of communication and media. Distinctions such as printed and audiovisual media disappeared, resulting in an integrated and intricate media structure. The Department of New Media and Journalism aims to train qualified personnel in accordance with this new situation in the field of media and communication.
New Media and Communication
Department of New Media and Communication, which is based on a new media-oriented academic and scientific education-teaching approach, continues its activities with a mission and vision in line with the requirements of the digital age. With its comprehensive curriculum created through the new media phenomenon, which is the modern expansion of the field of communication sciences and media, our department not only responds to the conditions of the present but also turns its face to the future.
New Media and Communication (English)
Welcome to the New Media and Communication Undergraduate Program! Our New Media and Communication Undergraduate Program at Üsküdar University dedicates itself to exploring the dynamic landscape of media and communication in the digital age.
Philosophy
Philosophy is an effort to understand and to question life and the world with critical thinking. The Department of Philosophy at Üsküdar University aims to develop new questions, meanings and theories by analyzing and questioning the meaning of life, existence, knowledge, science, morality, politics and art, and to provide students with critical and analytical thinking skills.
English Translation and Interpreting
The program trains students to translate and interpret English and Turkish texts and discourses effectively in all fields, to use languages correctly in terms of structure, meaning and context. Hence we improve their theoretical and practical knowledge and proficient use of technology and specialize them in a second foreign language.
Psychology
As the Department of Psychology at Üsküdar University—Turkey's first thematic university in the fields of behavioral sciences and health—we offer our students not only a theoretical education but also unique clinical observation and practical training opportunities through our partnership with NPİSTANBUL Hospital.
Psychology (English)
Psychology department is a scientific discipline providing academic-clinical education and practice including the behavioral and health sciences from a multi-faceted and critical perspectives. Üsküdar University Psychology Department aims to offer the students the opportunity to integrate education with research, practice and laboratory infrastructure at global standards.
Political Science and International Relations
The Department of Political Science and International Relations aims to educate professional who can interpret the network of contemporary relations from a conceptual framework and follow the current developments.
Political Science and International Relations (English)
Political Science and International Relations is a scientific discipline that examine political and global relations at many levels, from economics to law, politics, culture and psychology. As Üsküdar University Political Science and International Relations Department, we meet this need for interdisciplinarity thanks to diverse specialities of our academic staff, and our centers such as the Center for Political Psychology, Turkey's first academic center in this field. We aim to offer higher education of global quality which reaches beyond conventionality.
Sociology
Üsküdar University Sociology Department trains sociologists who are critical, open to change, research and project-oriented, problematize social realities from existential, cultural, and ethical perspectives, analyze them, and produce solutions. Our department offers the opportunity to put this theoretical and methodological knowledge into practice in a metropolis like Istanbul.
History
Üsküdar University's Department of History boasts a dynamic faculty specialising in Ottoman, modern Turkish and global history. Offering a project-focused education, active participation to a process of reciprocal learning and innovative approaches like digital history to students, the Department is located in Istanbul, a global centre in the past and present. Students benefit from this unique location with regular department-organised trips to archives, museums and historical sites.
Management Information Systems
The Department of Management Information Systems (MIS) at Üsküdar University aims to train well-equipped individuals who will lead digital transformation through an interdisciplinary approach that integrates business management with information technologies.
Forensic Sciences (Turkish)
In the Forensic Sciences, undergraduate education is provided to work in private or official criminal laboratories, conduct scientific research, develop new methods and equipment, and put them into practice. Students are trained to become specialists who can think interdisciplinary, have a strong scientific foundation and have solid laboratory experience, in order to carry the expertise ahead of the era, and to develop new products and technologies.
Forensic Sciences (English)
Designed for individuals who seek to specialize in forensic sciences at international standards and combat transnational crime on a global scale, Üsküdar University's Bachelor's Degree Program in Forensic Sciences (English) brings together scientific competence, advanced laboratory practice, and a universal understanding of justice.
Computer Engineering (English)
Computer Engineering is an engineering field that has proven itself worldwide and is increasing in popularity, as a field where design and management are at the highest level. Our department not only teaches the usage of technology but also designs it and produces solutions to real-world problems. Compared to other fields, it is an area where you can start your own business and become an entrepreneur without requiring a large capital. Our graduates can specialize in fields such as health informatics, cyber security, artificial intelligence, data mining, and forensics in today's competitive world.
Bioengineering (English)
Bioengineering is a new field that uses engineering principles, methods, and basic sciences such as mathematics, physics, and chemistry in order to solve problems in biology and medicine. In the second half of the twentieth century, with the discovery of semiconductor electronics and the improvements in computer science, bioengineering builds a bridge between technology and life sciences. We aim to educate our students as entrepreneurial individuals who are self-confident, distant from imitation, think multidimensionally and independently, have social responsibilities and ethical values required by their profession, have productive goals, adhere to teamwork, and lifelong learning.
Electrical and Electronics Engineering (English)
The Electrical-Electronics Engineering Program aims at giving the students a strong background in multidisciplinary engineering as well as the basic area concepts, such as electronic circuits, analog, and digital systems, communications, electromagnetics, and control systems. Electrical and electronics engineers have job opportunities in many fields of industry such as informatics, communication, automation, energy, and other public and private institutions that support this industry, as well as in sectors such as banking, maritime, insurance, and education.
Industrial Engineering (English)
Industrial Engineering is concerned with the design, improvement and installation of integrated systems consisting of human, robot, machine, hardware, information and energy. It is an engineering discipline that uses specialized knowledge and skills in mathematical, physical and social sciences, as well as engineering analysis and design principles and methods to determine, predict and evaluate the results obtained from these systems (IIE).
Chemical Engineering (English)
Chemical engineering is a multidisciplinary field of engineering that aims to transform raw materials and chemicals into useful and valuable products.
Molecular Biology and Genetics (English)
The Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics provides education at an international level with theoretical and applied courses that include molecular biology, genetics and bioengineering techniques. Our department aims to direct students to different fields of biology where ethical values are at the forefront, and to graduate individuals who can produce solutions to the needs of society, science and industry.
Molecular Biology and Genetics (Turkish)
The Molecular Biology and Genetics degree program at Üsküdar University aims to provide students with the latest and high academic content. Our curriculum includes basic bioengineering techniques and various courses as well as training in molecular biology and genetics. It is intended to guide the students in different areas of biology, bioinformatics, genetics, genomics, population genetics, cell biology, biochemistry and stem cell research. Our interdisciplinary teaching method aims to achieve the highest possible standards of quality of service for the mind, body health and diseases, medicine, genetics, social, biochemistry, basic knowledge, spiritual knowledge and family counseling and to the highest possible level.
Software Engineering (English)
Software Engineering Department educates students capable of; Anticipating user needs with its applications specific to health sciences, producing solutions to these needs, designing and developing software, producing algorithmic solutions to problems, keeping up with the rapid change in the field, producing solutions not only with the field of engineering but also in the field of health sciences in its neighbourhood, within-silico methods It aims to train engineers with collaborative skills. Our students are trained as Software Engineers who have a strong engineering background, are trained to work at every stage such as analysis, design, coding, testing, and management in software development projects, can develop mobile and web-based applications, and develop applications in areas such as big data, smart systems, artificial intelligence.
Nutrition and Dietetics
Nutrition and dietetics is a science that examines the methods of nutrition and the most appropriate nutrition and diet programs for human health. Obesity, cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, digestive system, cancer, and many diseases are increasing along with the health problems caused by malnutrition. For this reason, the profession of dietetics is gaining importance for the prevention of diseases that are caused by malnutrition and regulation of the current situation. The study areas of nutrition and dietetics professionals are nutrients, nutrition methods, diets, the amount of nutrient intake, type, frequency, regulation of the places of mass nutrition and nutrition of standing and underlying patients. Those working in the field of nutrition and dietetics carry out studies that will contribute to the promotion of health levels in a wide perspective from the protection and development of health to the treatment of diseases.
Child Development
Üsküdar University Faculty of Health Sciences, Department of Child Development; It offers an interdisciplinary and higher education opportunity that will enable children between the ages of 0-18 to be competent in developing developmental screening, assessment, diagnosis, developmental support and intervention programs with a holistic approach, without discrimination.
Speech and Language Therapy
The speech and Language Therapy undergraduate program provide systematic vocational training to provide students with professional knowledge and skills. During the four-year program, the first year has basic and vocational entrance courses. In the second and third years, the characteristics of communication, language, speech, voice, and swallowing disorders, diagnostic methods, and specialized therapy methods for different disorders and diseases are given training. In the fourth year, students take clinical practice training, where they have the opportunity to apply the information they have learned for three years.
Midwifery
Midwifery is a health discipline that provides follow-up, care, counseling, and education in order to improve, protect, maintain and treat the health of mothers and babies during pregnancy, childbirth, and the postpartum period, in this way contributes to improving family and community health. Midwifery Department offers four years of theoretical and clinical training.
Occupational Therapy
Üsküdar University Occupational Therapy program trains specialists who can facilitate the synthesis of information about the disabled and professional judgments about the environment, participation in social accessibility, functional analysis of human movements, assistive technology, the functional orientation of people of all ages, scientific research, and development, and production ability to increase quality.
Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation
Üsküdar University Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation undergraduate program provide a four-year education prepared with a contemporary approach by following current scientific developments to provide students with professional knowledge and skills. The training program includes basic and vocational courses, physiotherapy and rehabilitation assessment and therapeutic approach training specific to specific diseases and age groups, and clinical practice training. At the end of the education, it is aimed to train physiotherapists who have professional ethics and autonomy, are knowledgeable, can take responsibility, have gained professional practice skills, and have the infrastructure to perform their profession.
Nursing
Nursing is a health discipline consisting of science and art that plans, implements and evaluates the protection and development of health, and the provision of necessary treatment and care in case of illness. In order to protect and improve the health of the society, our department aims to be a leading force at the national and international level in improving the health of the society with its nursing education, research and practices, as well as educating nurses who are capable of education, research and practice based on scientific and ethical values.
Occupational Health and Safety
Our graduates will have the title of Occupational Health and Safety Technician. Our students will be at a level that will be able to decide to take all measures that will contribute to the protection and maintenance of occupational safety and employee health in all businesses with the knowledge they have learned in occupational health and safety undergraduate program, to make risk analyzes in accordance with the legal regulations on OHS and to take the necessary measures to prevent risks.
Audiology
Audiology is a branch of science that deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and rehabilitation of hearing and balance disorders. The main goal of the science of audiology is to detect hearing and balance loss at the earliest stage and to provide the appropriate rehabilitative approach as soon as possible when necessary. Audiologists are individuals who, within the scope of their education and knowledge, identify hearing and balance disorders, apply and follow up appropriate hearing aids, cochlear implants, assistive listening devices within the scope of rehabilitation and perform the rehabilitation of individuals with auditory education approaches.
Orthotics and Prosthetics
Orthosis and Prosthesis undergraduate education aims to train health professionals who can take part in the R&D teams of companies that produce and market medical supplies, who have developed the knowledge and skills to not only manufacture but also design assistive and complimentary devices needed by individuals with neurological or orthopedic diseases or orthopedic disabilities. Our vision is to be a respected and innovative department in the field of Orthotics and Prosthetics, providing research and application-oriented Orthosis-Prosthesis education. Our mission is to graduate Orthotics and Prosthetics specialists who can make up-to-date orthotics-prosthetics production and maintenance, follow scientific developments in this field and make original designs, and will maximize the patient's standard of living.
Perfusion
Perfusionists manage extracorporeal blood circulation by using a heart-lung machine under the supervision of relevant specialist physicians in interventions to the heart and/or large vessels. Within the scope of perfusion undergraduate education; In addition to the courses that will provide scientific foundations such as Anatomy, Physiology, and Biochemistry, there are vocational courses such as Introduction to Perfusion, Cardiopulmonary Bypass, Cardiac Anesthesia, Extracorporeal Life Support and Monitoring, Heart Diseases, Perfusion in Adult and Pediatric Patients, and field practice in the 4th grade. After graduating from the perfusion program; the graduates can work in public and university hospitals, training and research hospitals, private health institutions and the medical sector.
Health Management
It is a professional branch with training in the fields of "Hospital Management", "Organization of Health Services", "Health Financing", "Health Insurance", and "Health Technologies and Usage" in order to gain the necessary knowledge and skills for the management, operation and planning activities of health institutions and organizations. The graduates of this department will receive the title of "Health Manager".
Social Work
Social work is a practice-based profession that promotes social change, development, cohesion, and the empowerment of people and communities. Social workers improve the quality of life for individuals and effect system-wide change through the pursuit of social justice. The Uskudar University Social Work Department, It is aimed to educate professionals in order to be able to adapt to changing social conditions, cope with the situation of stress on the individual, and develop and implement information-service models that enhance social welfare areas. You will explore social work through rigorous coursework led by expert faculty. And you'll gain important professional connections and experiences.
Faculty of Medicine
Uskudar University Faculty of Medicine has adopted the principle of educating physicians who will raise the health level of the society; It has an infrastructure created on the basis of outstanding teaching staff and superior health service. Officially approved by the Council of Higher Education in 2018, our faculty is set out with the aim of achieving high quality and universality, both in medical education and health services, by its collaboration with the fully equipped NP ISTANBUL Brain Hospital with a capacity of 149 beds, as well as the fully equipped Istanbul Ataşehir Memorial Hospital with a capacity of 143 beds, active research centers such as NPSUAM, ÜSKÜDAB, ÜSMERA and KIMER, and with its multidisciplinary laboratories. Our students who are accepted to Üsküdar University Faculty of Medicine graduate as universal physicians who are willing to research and publish, follow and apply innovations, and can see the future in all fields of medicine.
Surgical Medical Sciences
13 departments of 45 departments which were established under the Faculty of Medicine, have gathered in the Department of Surgical Sciences. Surgical Sciences is a common name for medical fields that can diagnose if surgery necessary and can carry out operation when a surgery is needed for the patient receive their health back.
Internal Medical Sciences
22 departments of 45 departments which were established under the Faculty of Medicine, have gathered in the Department of Medical Sciences. Students who receive education within the Basic Sciences during first years, acquire necessary skills by practicing on models and simulated patients in an examination environment and then, students start to improve their skills in real examination environment with patients.
Basic Medical Sciences
10 departments of 45 departments which were established under the Faculty of Medicine, have gathered in the Department of Basic Sciences. The first two years of medical education aims for students to acquire professional knowledge and skills and to enable them with necessary fundamental knowledge and skills in order to achieve this.
Faculty of Dentistry
Our aim is to provide the students with the skills necessary to become happy people and successful physicians. Bringing them together with science in the most beautiful region of the world, we have succeeded in developing a unique dentistry program. In the light of this program, science and art will build the happiness of you and your patient hand in hand.
Clinical Sciences
Prosthetic dentistry is a branch of dentistry that deals with the correction and maintenance of oral functions, aesthetics, and patient health, where substance losses in natural teeth, missing teeth, and surrounding oral and maxillofacial tissues are restored with artificial materials.
Basic Sciences
Basic medical sciences education in dental education is provided to a limited extent. However, the enrichment of healthcare services, the expansion of their scope, and the increasing use of interventional procedures have rendered this limited medical education insufficient.
Forensic Sciences Master's Program (with/without Thesis)
The Graduate School of Addiction, and Forensic Sciences aims to be the first in our country in terms of vision, and mission, focusing on crime prevention, and crime analysis as well as providing international quality graduate education, and training to graduates of almost every undergraduate branch with 9 different specialties. The Graduate School of Addiction, and Forensic Sciences, which was established on April 9, 2016, and aims to train qualified forensic science experts, deals with the prevention of violence against women, and children, and the prediction of crime.
Forensic Chemistry and Forensic Toxicology Master's Program (with/without Thesis)
Forensic chemistry is a sub-discipline of forensic science that involves the application of scientific principles and techniques to analyze and interpret physical evidence in legal investigations. It combines principles of chemistry, biology, and physics to examine evidence such as drugs, trace materials, fingerprints, and firearms residues.
Criminal Justice Master's Program (with/without Thesis)
Criminal Justice Department Master's Program includes the criminal justice branch. In the Department of Criminal Justice Program, the crime phenomenon and criminal identity are investigated and their determination and what kind of solution suggestions can be put forward in order to ensure public order with the help of the evidence is encountered in this process.
Biosafety Master's Program (with Thesis)
The interdisciplinary Biosecurity program is a model of research and training, which focuses on critical issues in health, science, and security intersections.
Forensic Sciences PhD Program
The following areas are under the roof of Forensic Sciences PhD Program: Forensic Psychology and Behavioral Evidence, Criminalistics and Crime Scene Investigation, Forensic Molecular Biology and Genetics, Forensic Chemistry, Forensic Computing and Digital Evidence, and Forensic Crime Prevention and Analysis.
Computer Engineering (English) Master's Program
In order to closely follow the rapidly developing information technologies, the program offers compulsory courses for students to learn the basic information and elective courses related to the field they want to study. These courses include advanced computer networks, network security, artificial intelligence, digital image processing, cryptography, software engineering, and robotics.
Computer Engineering Master's Program
Given the advancing technology, developments in fields such as artificial intelligence, robotics, brain computer interface studies, bioinformatics and data mining, increase the need for Computer Engineer experts with theoretical and practical knowledge.
Bioinformatics (with Thesis) Master's Program
Bioinformatics aims to investigate especially molecular biological systems using informatics methods. It also aims to better understand biological systems by researching and analyzing large-scale data produced by technology using computer methods. Bioinformatics graduates can find employment in all healthcare-related fields, industries, and academia. Especially pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies increasingly need bioinformatics graduates.
Bioengineering (English) Master's Program
The aim of the Bioengineering Thesis/Non-Thesis MSc Program is to educate researchers who have the theoretical and technological requirements in the field and gained the ability to follow the developments and focus on teaching by absorbing the pleasure of learning. We aim to meet the need for qualified academic staff by providing the necessary knowledge to researchers and to train senior bioengineers who can lead various studies.
Bioengineering Master's Program
Bioengineering is a field that uses basic sciences such as mathematics, physics and chemistry, engineering principles and methods to solve problems in biological systems with engineering approaches. The aim of the Bioengineering (Turkish) Master's Program is basically to contribute the raising of high-level bioengineers who can lead studies in this field by providing the necessary knowledge to individuals who will conduct research in the field of bioengineering.
Biotechnology Master's Program
The aim of the Biotechnology (Thesis-Non-Thesis) Master's Program is to train researchers who have the theoretical and technological requirements and are equipt with the information related to their field, who have followed the developments in their field and gained the ability to follow, and who focus on teaching by absorbing the pleasure of learning. Graduates who have completed the Master's Program can work in fields such as pharmaceuticals, agriculture, and biomedicine, and also work as researchers and academics in industrial biotechnology environments, pharmaceutical companies, forensic medicine laboratories, private diagnostic laboratories, public hospital genetics laboratories, or universities.
Electrical and Electronics Engineering (English) Master's Program
The Electrical-Electronics Engineering program offers graduate students prominent research opportunities consisting in a variety of areas including numerical modeling of electromagnetic problems, computational electromagnetics, biological effects of electromagnetic fields, electromagnetic compatibility, scattering of EM waves in wireless environments, power systems modeling, and optimization of power systems, distributed generation, renewable energy, smart grids, reliability and feasibility evaluation in power systems, and artificial intelligence applications in power systems. The Diverse areas of research are not only conducted independently but there is also a great synergy between closely and distantly related areas which opens new research and study opportunities.
Chemical Engineering (English) Master's Program
The aim of the Master's Degree Program with Chemical Engineering Thesis is to train expert engineers, academicians, and scientists who have the qualifications to develop and implement processes in which the chemical structures, physical state, or energy contents of materials are changed.
Chemical Engineering (with Thesis) Master's Program
Chemical engineering is a vast and versatile engineering branch that deals with the development and implementation of processes in which the chemical structure, energy content, or physical state of the materials are altered. Chemical Engineering Master's degree program offers to create a specialization opportunity in many fields such as petrochemical, chemistry, pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, chemical process modeling, environmental and energy management, renewable energy, waste management, biomaterials, nanotechnology, catalysts and catalytic reactions, polymer science, process engineering, bioinformatics, and biostatistics. The job opportunities of chemical engineers are very diverse.
Molecular Biology (English) Master's Program
Molecular Biology is a branch of science that studies biology as a concept at the molecular level. Molecular Biology and Genetics include areas such as diagnosing diseases, investigating the cause of the disease, and predetermining the mechanisms that cause any physical problem. From this point of view, with the progress made in the field of genetics and technology in recent years, there has been a great desire and demand to better determine what kind of changes genes are exposed to in body systems with newly developed techniques and methods. To provide students with an in-depth knowledge of the molecular mechanisms of a range of diseases, including all metabolic disorders, particularly genetic diseases, at both basic and experimental stages. It is to train qualified, qualified educators and academics who want to play an important role in seeking solutions for today's and tomorrow's diseases
Molecular Biology Master's Program
The objective of the master's Degree Program in Molecular Biology is to educate individuals who have theoretical and technological requirements and equipment related to the field, who have followed the developments in their field and have gained the skill of acquiring, and who are focused on teaching by assimilating the learner's pleasure.
Engineering Management (English) Master's Program
The aim of the Master of Science Program in Engineering Management (with thesis) is to train engineers who have gained knowledge and skills in the field of management and can work in managerial positions in the industry. Scope of Engineering Management: It is a discipline for making and applying the most appropriate decisions in the management of enterprises specialized in engineering, developing technologies and all related systems.
Engineering Management (with Thesis) Master's Program
The aim of the Master of Science Program in Engineering Management (with thesis) is to train engineers who have gained knowledge and skills in the field of management and can work in managerial positions in the industry.Scope of Engineering Management: It is a discipline for making and applying the most appropriate decisions in the management of enterprises specialized in engineering, developing Technologies, and all related systems.
Cyber Security (English) Master's Program
Cyber Security master's degree program teaches how to secure information systems, about cyber-attack techniques, how software is coded in a secure way, how computer networks and systems are designed and installed to be safer, how systems are hardened, and the techniques and knowledge required to perform these tasks. Cyber security master's degree program graduates will have job opportunities in banking, cyber security firms, Computer and Information Systems (CIS) Departments of Government Institutions, CIS Departments of middle size or large firms, Cyber War Armed Forces, Police Cyber Crimes Department, etc. The World needs at least 3.5 million cyber security experts right now.
Cyber Security Master's Program
As the huge volume of critical data now being stored in the digital domain, it is of paramount importance to secure and protect it from malicious interests. Cybersecurity experts are the most effective line of defense to protect computer networks and electronic infrastructures against such attacks.
Artificial Intelligence Engineering Master's Program
The artificial Intelligence Engineering program aims to develop and establish smart systems, working on natural language processing, speech recognition and machine vision by using large data. There are many job opportunities in every field in the public and private sectors, and the interest and need for artificial intelligence engineering are rapidly increasing.
Molecular Biology and Genetics (English) PhD Program
The Molecular Biology (English) PhD Program aims to train qualified doctoral students through an interdisciplinary approach. The broad scope and versatile structure of our program allow it to accept students from diverse academic backgrounds, particularly in Life Sciences, Chemistry, Physics, Bioengineering, and other engineering disciplines. Among the primary objectives of the program are contributing to the training of the expert human resources needed in our country in the fields of molecular biology, genetics, and biotechnology; producing scientific knowledge at an international level; and supporting the utilization of research outputs in the development of modern industrial technologies.
Addiction Counseling and Rehabilitation Master's Program
Addiction is a social problem that is becoming increasingly important all over the world. The prevalence of substance use in our country is increasing and the age of starting to use is decreasing every year.
Nutrition and Dietetics Master's Program
Nutrition and Dietetics Master's Program includes subjects related to 4 different sub-disciplines, namely "Nutrition Sciences", "Diettics", "Community Nutrition Systems" and "Community Nutrition", as well as subjects related to science branches such as biochemistry, physiology and psychology. In addition to the compulsory courses during the education process, students can choose different courses in line with the guidance of their advisors. The aim of the Nutrition and Dietetics master's program is to provide advanced education in the field of nutrition and dietetics for the protection, improvement, development and increase of life quality of the society throughout life, and to train dietitians who are experts in their fields who can follow academic studies and conduct multidisciplinary studies.
Child Development Master's Program
Through Child Development (Thesis / Non-Thesis) Master's Program; it is aimed to develop Child Development Specialist who can make diagnosis and evaluation about the development of children and adolescents between 0-18 age group under normal development, special needs, acute and chronic illnesses, in need of protection and at developmental risk, who can take part in health, education and social areas and who can do family counseling while applying technological, scientific methods and techniques, adopt an eclectic approach and be bound to ethical values.
Speech and Language Therapy Master's Program
The aim of the master's program with thesis in language and speech therapy is to help Language and Speech Therapy Undergraduate Program Graduate Students with Non-thesis master's Degree students in Language and Speech Therapy to select the courses and their master's thesis to be written after the scientific researches so that they will become Expert Language and Speech Therapist.
Midwifery Master's Program
The Midwifery Master's Program which accepts midwives graduated from the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Midwifery Departments of Health Schools aims to train qualified midwives who have comprehensive professional knowledge inclined to acquire new information, have analytic and critical thinking skills, and can transfer evidence-based practices to working life, and also who can provide quality and holistic midwifery care for promotion, protection and improvement of the health of the whole society, especially women of reproductive age, pregnant women, healthy newborns and 0-6 years old children.
Occupational Therapy Master's Program
Among the Foundation Universities in Turkey, both the Occupational Therapy Undergraduate Program and the Occupational Therapy Postgraduate Program were first opened in Üsküdar University.
Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Master's Program
Physiotherapy and rehabilitation, which can be practiced in many areas of medicine, has been born with the aim of reducing the functional losses of the disabled population caused by wars, accidents and child pandemic epidemics, and has reached to the presently popular position through many stages.
Nursing Master's Program
Developments in the field of health, knowledge generation and community expectations increase the need for expertise. In order for nursing department, which is one of the basic professions related to health, to provide a powerful service to community, it is necessary to develop professional knowledge and skills, to make independent decisions, to solve problems, to produce information, to guide colleagues, to develop professional values and ethical sensitivity, to produce information through researches and is necessary to be made up of trained members.
Occupational Health and Safety Master's Program
Occupational health and safety non-thesis master's program is one of the rising values in parallel to the law of Occupational health and safety numbered 6331, which entered into force in 2012. It deals with important issues such as the health and safety of employees, prevention of occupational accidents and occupational diseases.
Neuroscience (English) Master's Program
Neuroscience is a multidisciplinary branch of science that focuses on the structure, function and development of the nervous systems.
Neuroscience Master's Program
Neuroscience is a science based on the investigation of the nervous system. Neuroscience is traditionally considered as a subdivision of biological sciences; Nowadays, medicine, chemistry, mathematics, biology, computer engineering, physics and psychology have gained an interdisciplinary identity in which the disciplines of science work together. We offer a high level of education and research quality with a vision that focuses on research as well as education in the thematic structure of our university, with our team that can create models for this multidisciplinary structuring.
Perfusion Master's Program
The main goal of the Perfusion Master's Program is to meet the need for qualified academic staff for research to be carried out in the field of perfusion education throughout the country.
Health Informatics Master's Program
The field of Health Informatics has a significant contribution to the clinical decision making and treatment processes of medical devices, data collection and data analysis methods developed especially in recent years.
Health Management Master's Program
Today, because of the increase in the division of labor and specialization, areas such as general management and hospital management besides business management have gained special importance.
Social Work Master's Program
In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the number of people in need of social services due to urbanization and the increase in social problems accompanying it.
Speech and Language Disorders Therapy PhD Program
Üsküdar University Ph.D. in Speech and Language Disorders Therapy within the Graduate School of Health Sciences, offers clinic-based therapies for practicing language and speech therapists working in the field that can perform clinical and basic research and development activities on communication-language-speech, voice, in the field of basic sciences as well as in the fields of physician language and speech therapy, this have been opened to develop related models.
Physiology PhD Program
Physiology is a scientific discipline that studies how living organisms function at the cellular, organ, and system levels. It explains the physical and chemical factors that ensure the healthy continuation of vital activities in living beings.
Nursing PhD Program
The PhD program of Nursing department was opened with the decision of the Council of Higher Education in 26.06.2015 under the Graduate School of Health Sciences. The program is the first doctorate program opened within Üsküdar University.
Occupational Health and Safety PhD Program
Occupational Health and Safety is a highly needed and requested science in our country. Occupational Health and Safety Ph.D. Program has been an inevitable necessity for our country due to the Occupational Health and Safety Law No. 6331 reinforced by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security in 2012, businesses have to employ Occupational Safety Specialists and the low number of qualified personnel. The main goals of our PhD program are to contribute to national and international publications on occupational health and safety issues, to prevent occupational accidents by developing new scientific and technical applications in this field, to produce innovative solutions based on scientific perspectives, to improve occupational health and safety culture and understanding in our country in order to reduce accidents and occupational diseases and train qualified personnel.
Clinical Anatomy PhD Program
In the modern sense, in medical education, it is emphasized that the physician can connect theoretical knowledge and clinical applications. Especially in basic science courses, theoretical knowledge-based medical education from the last century is being restructured. Anatomy, which is the most weighted course of basic sciences, is seen as the course that needs these innovations most.
Molecular Neuroscience PhD Program
The function of the brain is the result of a highly complex integration of the signaling units: To understand the role of neurons in health and disease, it is important to understand the underlying mechanisms underlying neuronal function. Along with the progress made in genetics in recent years, it has become a great desire to understand what these genes do in neuronal systems. It is necessary for our country to catch up with this rapidly growing knowledge accumulation around the world and to create a sub-structure that will produce its pioneering work in this field.
Neuroscience PhD Program
In our age, it is important to investigate cognitive processes and neurological functions in order to explain human behavior and to understand the underlying mechanisms.
Health Management PhD Program
Today, because of the increase in the division of labor and specialization, areas such as general management and hospital management besides business management have gained special importance.
Medical Genetics PhD Program
Medical genetics is a branch of medicine that deals with the diagnosis, treatment and prevention of genetic disorders.
Perfusion PhD Program
Technological advancements in the field of perfusion have led to a broadening of applications, ranging from cardiopulmonary bypass to extracorporeal life support systems (ECLS/ECMO) and advanced perfusion techniques.
Family Counseling Master's Program
The high demand for family based therapeutic interventions causes Family Counseling to be popular in Turkey and in the World. According to current research, most of the clinical problems that psychologists deal with are family based issues. Intervention techniques that are used in Family Counseling aim at the clinical problems of individuals, families and the social relations of the families. Some of these problems include psychopathology, domestic violence, marriage and divorce, child development, children and adolescence problems, migrant family problems elderly care and chronic illnesses.
Philosophy Master's Program
It is observed that there is an interest in philosophy with the new existential questions that have emerged with the phenomena of digital revolution and globalization in the world. We also see that numerous higher education institutions include more courses as critical thinking, introduction to philosophy and applied ethics courses in their curricula and that many academics begin to study philosophy anew for the sake of lifelong learning.
Visual Communication Design Master's Program
In today's Industry 4.0 age, the known definition, duty and responsibilities of the designer have changed. The increasing speed of change in the world is reshaping the daily life of humanity at the point reached and new habits and needs are exposed. The visual communication designer, on the other hand, undertakes the task of establishing a humane communication bridge between people with digitalized life elements.
Public Relations and Advertising Master's Program
Public Relations and Advertising, as an extension of Üsküdar University Faculty of Communication, is an interdisciplinary master program within the Social Sciences Graduate School, which aims to conduct academic and scientific studies in the field of public relations, advertising and marketing communication.
Clinical Psychology Master's Program
The clinical psychology master's program is a master's degree program which gives bachelor of psychology and psychological counseling and guidance the authority to work as a clinician in a private sector or in a hospital and gives they the title of clinical psychologist.
Media and Cultural Studies Master's Program
The Media and Cultural Studies as an extension of the Faculty of Communication at Üsküdar University, the Graduate School of Social Sciences, is an interdisciplinary graduate program aimed at conducting academic and scientific studies in the field of media, communication and culture.
Neuromarketing Master's Program
Neuromarketing was first introduced by Prof. Gerry Zaltman of Harvard University, the first person to apply brain-imaging technology in marketing research, in the late 1990s. Spread rapidly in recent years, prominent corporations all around the world began to use neuromarketing as part of their market research.
Sociology Master's Program
The Sociology Master's Program at Üsküdar University is a postgraduate thesis program that is affiliated with the Graduate School of Social Sciences and offers specialization in the field of sociology. The program provides an academic competence in terms of theoretical and field research within the broad scope of sociology and provides students specialization in line with their interests. The main objective of the program is to provide students with an in-depth understanding of the links between sociology and other social sciences and develop interactions between them with practical skills.
International Relations Master's Program
In this program, the political problems in today's world are examined in the context of conflict and reconciliation areas. In particular, threats and uncertainties arising in the international system are handled in a multi-dimensional manner. The internal conflicts that emerge in the Middle East after the Arab Spring and the migration movements triggered by these conflicts, as well as the increasing immigration opposition in the Western world and solutions to the impact of rising populism are sought. Under these increasingly hard conditions, the academy has a great responsibility to uncover the factors underlying the problems and to find solutions. Within this framework, the discipline of International Relations has a distinct place in contemporary issues from other fields with its political, sociological, economic and psychological approaches.
Applied Psychology Master's Program
Scientific developments are increasing the importance of cooperation in the fields of science. The branches of science, which carry out their studies independently, contribute to scientific progress with the increase of cooperation. Psychology and neuroscience are the center of this collaboration.
New Media and Journalism Master's Program
The area known as journalism in traditional communication studies has gained a new dimension since the 1990s, with advances in computer technology and the introduction of the Internet. This new dimension, called the new media, was involved in the process, and journalism training had to be reorganized to include the new media. These arrangements are based on an interdisciplinary approach, especially in postgraduate education.
Visual Communication Design PhD Program
Visual Communication Design Ph.D. Program combines communication sciences, art, and design. It is known that communication sciences, especially media studies, are intertwined with art, aesthetics, and design. In addition to mass media such as cinema and television, which predominates visually, the visual design constitutes the character of communication tools such as newspapers, magazines, and books. In today's world, where digital technologies dominate all media, it is observed that visual design brings important opportunities for the field of communication. The field of communication has become penetrated almost all sections of human and social life by using the opportunity of visual design. Visual Communication Design Ph.D. Program also aims to train communication scientists, media professionals, and designers who are strong in communication, design, and art.
Psychology PhD Program
The frequency of mental problems has been continuously increasing in our country as in the rest of the world. Therefore, our country is in need of psychologists who are able to carry out scientific studies as well as identify the behavioral problems precisely, suggest the most suitable solutions, and remain faithful to ethical values.
International Relations PhD Program
The interrelations between the actors of international politics, namely states, international organizations, non-governmental organizations, multinational corporations and individuals, have become deeper and more complex with the impact of globalization. Accordingly, the developing discipline of International Relations is adopting new approaches in addition to the basic scientific approaches and increasing ties with different disciplines each passing day. Transformations at the global level bring about a greater need for experts to explain the subjects in this field. Especially for Turkey, a country which witnesses often a new event taking place, experts in the field is essential both to cope with the problems and to provide quality formation. In this direction, our program aims to train International Relations researchers and academicians who will closely follow the developments in world politics and blend them with their academic knowledge. The Ph.D Program in International Relations is planned to be an interdisciplinary program by covering the subfields within the discipline of international relations. It aims to create research opportunities in sub-branches such as international relations theories, international political economy, foreign policy analysis, regional studies.
New Media and Communication PhD Program
The New Media and Communication Ph.D. Program provides education to respond to the changing needs of the sector with digitalization on the one hand, and to educate future academics with the required qualifications. In addition, it is among the priorities of the program to make room for advanced academic studies in the field of new media and communication, and to educate qualified academics and professionals in the fields of the media such as journalism, radio, television, new media and internet journalism.
Sufi Culture and Literature Master's Program (with/without Thesis)
The content of Sufi Culture and Literature Thesis & Non Thesis Master's Programs has been designed to integrate the subjects of Sufi doctrine, Sufi history and Sufi literature with the basic Islamic sciences, along with various disciplines of social sciences, especially the subjects of Islamic thought and civilization history. The program also aims to contribute to the production of interdisciplinary cultural studies based on the perspective of "Islamic civilization, Sufi thought and culture", which is originated in our own cultural geography. Taking a closer look allows us to see that almost every study related to civilization and culture in this geography is somehow related to the field of Sufism. Thus Sufism can offer new opportunities for Turkey in the fields of Area Studies and Religious Studies. Studies on Sufism can also bring new perspectives to those who are interested in sociology and human psychology today.
Thought, History and Literature of Islamic Civilization PhD Program
Scientific studies and researches are rapidly moving beyond the understanding of 'profession-oriented'. Many disciplines are increasingly engaged with topics and methodolgy of religious sciences. In addition to the basic Islamic sciences, the field of Sufism has a wide range of interests from literature to philosophy, from history to sociology, from music to painting, from political philosophy to popular culture, science and art. We are in a dire need for interdisciplinary Institute programs, which steer away from the restrictive classical job-oriented mentality in order not only to preserve these values, which is the product of more than a thousand years of Islamic civilization, but also to make it viable, to penetrate the textures of daily life, to contribute more to our culture and world of thought. The Islamic Civilization, Thought, History and Literature Doctorate Program was structured for this purpose.
Emergency and Disaster Management
It is all work done to reduce and manage the effects of a potential disaster or emergency. Emergency and Disaster Management in Turkey's earthquake risk for natural disasters such as that in the geographical area, will take the initiative in the event of a possible disaster is of great importance in terms of well-trained manpower.
Oral and Dental Health
The aim of the Oral and Dental Health Program is to educate qualified health technicians who can assist dentists in the diagnosis and treatment of oral and dental diseases. Oral and dental health technicians work directly with dentists during clinical procedures, contributing to more effective patient care. Today, with the growing emphasis on preventive dentistry and the increasing number of dental specialties, the importance of this program continues to rise.
Operating Room Services
It is an assistant surgical healthcare staff who prepares all surgical materials used in the operating room and provides them to be used during surgery, who are directly involved in all surgical teams, who can provide the surgeon with assists during the operation, and who also have practical and theoretical equipment in other fields of health sciences in a multidisciplinary manner.
Anesthesia
The Anesthesia Program trains technicians who can prepare the patient before the operation, support the anesthesiologist during the operation, and undertake the control and supervision of the patient after the operation. Apart from advanced anesthesia machines and different anesthesia techniques, students are informed about sterilization and emergency patient care.
Biomedical Device Technology
Today, approximately twenty thousand different types of medical devices and systems are used in hospitals. The need for personnel with technical and scientific knowledge to carry out the design and development of biomedical systems and to take part in the efficient use of systems is increasing day by day.
Environmental Health
It is a detailed education program that deals with the fundamental sciences such as biology, ecology, chemistry and the emergence of natural and man-made environmental problems, and with different scientific solutions to these problems. The main purpose of Üsküdar University Environmental Health Program; to raise awareness among students who are educated about the importance of the environment, why it should be protected and what we can encounter if it is not, and to enable graduates with this awareness to work on environmental issues.
Child Development
The Child Development Program is an associate degree program established to meet the need for education and counseling to ensure that children can live in a healthy environment. The purpose of the program is to train qualified professionals who serve children, families, and society across all relevant units through an educational curriculum that supports the development of children aged 0 to 18 with typical development or special needs.
Child Protection and Care Services
Child Protection and Care Services Program; with the aim of educating qualified personnel who can guide, sustain and evaluate the studies in the Children's Houses, and Child Support Centers. The most basic objective of the Child Protection and Care Services program is to train caregivers who will be able to provide services for the protection and care of children in institutions such as children's houses and child support centers where children under state protection are placed for various reasons and who can provide educational, social and spiritual support to them.
Dental Prosthesis Technology
Dentists can use to help, educates qualified technical personnel to carry out the laboratory stage. Thus, a greater number of dentists take the time the patient will be given the opportunity. Dental Prosthetic Technician given a two-year training, which creates the dentist's treatment plan is made based on laboratory applications. By a dentist based oral dimensions of the model are ready, prepared models on the fixed and removable partial dentures shaping, molding method to replicate, they are leveling and polishing aesthetic appearance, giving mouth suitable for use in making enables.
Dialysis
The need for qualified employees in the one of the fastest growing health sectors in Turkey is increasing. Dialysis technicians are in high demand. A dialysis technician, under the supervision of doctors, takes care of the patients who are undergoing dialysis treatment, and is the only responsible person for the patient's daily, weekly, monthly, and annual condition while undergoing treatment. In every company or field a dialysis machine is used, graduates can be employed as a dialysis technician.
Pharmacy Services
The Pharmacy Services Program was established to educate qualified support personnel for the pharmacy and pharmaceutical sector in a fully scientific environment. The program aims to equip students with the professional knowledge and skills required by the industry while emphasizing multidisciplinary collaboration to contribute to the delivery of high-quality healthcare services to society.
Electroneurophysiology
Electroneurophysiology Technology is the scientific field devoted to the recording and study of the electrical activity of the brain and nervous system. Used for medical evaluation and research, includes procedures that evaluate the function of the nervous system. Electroneurophysiology Technicians use a variety of techniques and instruments to record electrical activity that occurs primarily for the brain, spinal cord, peripheral nerves, or somatosensory systems. They perform neurological diagnostic tests in the field of Electroencephalography (EEG) and Electromyography (EMG). They use sensitive electronic diagnostic equipment to record and evaluate the electrical activity of patients' central and peripheral nervous systems to assist doctors in diagnosing diseases, injuries, and abnormalities. The Electroneurophysiology Program is designed to provide you with a strong foundation in theory and practical work experience while training you in using specialized equipment to access information about the health of the nervous system. Electroneurophysiology technicians use sensitive electronic diagnostic equipment to record and evaluate the electrical activity of patients' central and peripheral nervous systems to assist physicians in diagnosing diseases, injuries, and abnormalities.
Disability Care and Rehabilitation
A Disability Care Technician is defined as a professional who, by applying the knowledge and techniques acquired through disability care education, supports individuals with disabilities and those in need of care in maintaining their quality of life, alleviating concerns about the future, making productive use of their free time, and developing and maintaining habits that promote awareness and protection of their own bodies and living environments.
Home Patient Care
Patients require not only curative healthcare services but also preventive, supportive, rehabilitative, and social care services. The Home Patient Care Program was established to meet the growing demand for these services. Today, the increasing average life expectancy, the growing elderly population, advances in medicine and technology that enable many healthcare services to be delivered at home, shorter hospital stays, and the rise of outpatient surgical procedures have significantly increased the importance of home patient care.
Physiotherapy
A physical therapist is a health care provider who has the autonomy to evaluate, measure, and treat patients during injury, illness, birth defect, mobility system defect, or pain and function defects caused by other reasons. Physiotherapy Technician, the patient or the lives of people with disabilities, healthy, in order to become independent in activities of daily living, physical therapy, exercise supervision of applications, together with the physician and physical therapist is a person who.
Food Technology
The Food Technology Program is a training program that incorporates the power of different basic disciplines in the training program due to the nature of the "Food Technician" profession. Program; By bringing innovative approaches to the person, it trains intermediate staff who have the ability to apply more than engineers in small, medium and large scale food producing enterprises.
First and Emergency Aid
The First and Emergency Aid Program is a two-year associate degree program designed to educate healthcare professionals who can effectively provide pre-hospital emergency medical services. The First and Emergency Aid Program was established at Üsküdar University in 2013 and admitted its first cohort of students during the 2013–2014 academic year.
Occupational Health and Safety
With industrialization, technological advancements, and changing working conditions, protecting employee health and safety has become one of the most critical needs today. Following the Occupational Health and Safety Law No. 6331, the need for qualified human resources in the field of occupational health and safety in both public and private sectors has increased significantly.
Laboratory Technology
Laboratory Technology Program aims to competent laboratory technician who can carry out analysis of plant, soil, water, food, forage and fertilizer in agricultural production under laboratory conditions and who can follow new systems in their field and new technological methods.
Nuclear Technology and Radiation Safety
Uskudar University Nuclear Technology and Radiation Safety Program employs qualified and specialized personnel with basic nuclear structure, radiation resources and application areas, radiation armouring principles, biological effects of radiation, radioactive materials and waste management, applied health physics, reactor theory and management, national and international nuclear regulations and regulatory, and the knowledge and capabilities acquired in the fields of nuclear technologies, who are study-conscious in the fields of radiation, who have the ability to understand new technologies and implement existing problems. In particular, the need for trained personnel in nuclear power plants, which is planned to be opened in our country and which is one of the breakthroughs that will prevent foreign dependence on energy, further increases the importance of this program.
Audiometry
Audiometry program is an associate degree program established to train professional staff to assist in the diagnosis of hearing and balance disorders. The aim of Üsküdar University Audiometry Program is to train qualified audiometry technicians who know and use scientific methods in the diagnosis of diseases that cause hearing loss and balance disorders, apply hearing and balance tests, assist patients in the use of hearing aids prescribed by ENT specialist physicians, follow current developments in the field, continuously improve themselves by taking advantage of various opportunities, have verbal communication skills and the ability to apply new technological developments competently.
Opticianry
The optical sector is a branch of the healthcare industry established to correct vision defects diagnosed by ophthalmologists and to ensure that the prescribed treatment is applied to patients accurately and completely. Within the optical sector, opticians, store owners, and sales personnel work together as a team.
Orthopedic Prosthetics and Orthotics
A prosthesis is an artificial organ used in cases of organ or limb loss. An orthosis, on the other hand, refers to assistive devices applied to parts of the body that require support, protection, stabilisation or correction for any reason. An Orthopaedic Prosthetics and Orthotics Technician works on the manufacture of artificial organs (prostheses) designed to partially replace the functions of lost limbs such as hands and feet, or on the manufacture of assistive devices (orthoses) applied to parts of the body that require support, protection or correction.
Autopsy Assistant
Program graduates will graduate as "Autopsy Technician". Autopsy technicians serve on matters such as autopsy, writing forensic reports, post-mortem samples. They help forensic experts. Our students have the opportunity to practice practically in the many state hospitals we are both theoretically and in agreement with above practices. Thus they will be professionally equipped in their graduation. At the same time, it is very important for the vision of our university that our students should graduate with the highest awareness and equipment in terms of ethical values.
Pathology Laboratory Techniques
Pathology laboratory techniques program is a 2-year department and the aim is to train qualified pathology laboratory technicians who can work directly in pathology and cytology laboratories in graduation environment. Knowing all the procedures that will be applied in delivering the organ-tissue and fluid samples taken from the patient to the laboratory, conducting the technical works in the process until the microscope stage in the laboratory, delivering the prepared preparations to the pathologist, having the knowledge and skills to perform the necessary procedures, To train technicians who can control and follow developments in the field of health, who have knowledge and skills about research pathology.
Podology
As a graduate of the two-year podology program; it is a qualified health professional who provides services for the protection and care of individuals' foot health and, when necessary, performs foot treatment and care of patients depending on the diagnosis and treatment of the relevant specialist physician.
Radiotherapy
Radiotherapy is a treatment modality used in approximately three out of every four cancer patients. Within the framework of modern multidisciplinary cancer treatment, it may be administered as a curative treatment on its own, before or after surgery, or in combination with chemotherapy or other systemic therapies.
Hair Care and Beauty Services
It is an associate degree program that brings a qualified workforce to the sector, who have gained professional qualifications in line with the ever-developing and renewed needs of the care and beauty sector, who understand work ethics and business discipline, and who can follow and apply technological developments. Hair Care and Beauty Services program is one of the programs of Üsküdar University Vocational School of Health Services, which has many branches in which you can specialize, is open to development and has a dynamic structure.
Health Information Systems Technician
The rapid development of technologies for information systems in health causes the importance given to informatics in this field to increase rapidly. Health Information Systems Technician; in general it is similar to computer programming. In addition to the Computer Programming Department courses, courses on health information systems are also included in the training program.
Health Institutions Management
The purpose of this program is to train experts in the field of Health Services Management with knowledge of economics and business, as well as a holistic approach taking into account the socio-psychological services, to give the hardware required training that is an import need in the country, to gain experience to students in practice sufficient to Health Services Managementand to gain knowledge to students about health care legislation and social security law that is required for Health Services Management.
Social Security
Having professional skills such as making public and private sector operations of both personnel working in public and private sector businesses in a document or computer environment in accordance with the relevant legislation, preparing personnel personal files in a timely and correct manner, arranging private insurance procedures such as private pension, life and non-life insurance. The two-year associate degree program that aims to train "Social Security Professionals" is called the "Social Security" program.
Social Services
The Social Services Program prepares professionals to contribute to the delivery of social welfare services, particularly for disadvantaged groups such as older adults, individuals with disabilities, and other vulnerable populations. Social services play a vital role in promoting child welfare, youth services, family protection, education, justice, and other areas of social welfare. Delivering these services effectively requires qualified professionals who have received scientific and professional training in the field.
Medical Documentation and Secretariat
Graduates of the program can work as "Medical Secretaries" in public and private healthcare institutions and organizations; they can work in outpatient and clinical information technology services, patient registration and admission, human resources departments, and central medical archive services at public and private inpatient and outpatient healthcare institutions and organizations affiliated with the Ministry of Health.
Medical Imaging Techniques
Medical Imaging Technician; It informs the patients about the radiological examination and prepares them, ensures the radiation safety and privacy of the patient during the examination, and the confidentiality of the patient information after the examination. By keeping track of the periodic maintenance and repairs of the medical fixtures he/she is responsible for, communicating the situation to the department officers or the biomedical unit in case of malfunctions, it keeps a record of the operations and archives the examinations regularly.
Medical Laboratory Techniques
The Medical Laboratory Techniques Program trains qualified professionals who have internalized the concepts and principles of their field, base their practice on universal science and education in medical laboratory services, and can combine theoretical knowledge with practice. These professionals are capable of using methods, obtaining and organizing findings, and sharing/utilizing data related to diagnostic needs (such as Pathology, Biochemistry, Microbiology-Parasitology, and Cytogenetics). They are equipped to serve in institutions providing medical laboratory services within the systematics of business structure and organization in the medical and healthcare sector.
Medical Promotion and Marketing
Pharmaceutical industry, as well as all over the world constantly developing sector in Turkey is. Therefore, drug representatives who have received a good education are needed. Who were born as a result of the advancements in medicine and in recent years the group has become one of the most popular professions in the medical profession one of the promotion and marketing is part. Medical Promotion and Marketing Programme, pharmaceutical and medical sector is a program that trained salesperson.
Medicinal and Aromatic Plants
Biological, ecological, genetic and systematic properties of the Medicinal and Aromatic Plants that have economic value in the food, pharmaceutical, cosmetics and paint industry, culture, collection and protection from nature, chemical contents and analysis methods, supply, production and quality controls, use It is a program that trains auxiliary technical personnel who have basic knowledge and practice in their fields and ethics.
Elderly Care
With the Geriatric (Aged) Care Technician Program, advances in medicine and technology globally and in our country have enabled individuals to become more conscious about health, thereby extending life expectancy. As in many countries, there is an increase in the elderly population in our country alongside the young population. This growing elderly population brings about many challenges that need to be addressed.
