There are many reasons why the business world should prefer the graduates of Bezmiâlem Vakif University, which trains the health professionals of the future by drawing its strength from its deep-rooted health history of nearly two centuries. Each of our academic units develops unique educational approaches that go beyond the current needs of the relevant profession. Equipped with the knowledge, skills and competence required by the age, our graduates start their professional careers and make a difference by adding value to the institutions they work for.
“Our Faculty of Dentistry starts with foreign language education and continues with theoretical courses on basic and clinical sciences and preclinical laboratory studies. After the clinical observation process that follows, clinical training begins with the assistance of expert trainers. Throughout the whole education process, our students are considered as a part of Bezmiâlem Vakif University and have the opportunity to work in our clinics equipped with modern, quality equipment. In addition, the fact that its location is easily accessible and that it has been providing health services for more than a hundred years is a great advantage of our faculty. This makes our clinics to be among the first choices of patients who require special care or urgent treatment, because our university, which has a fully equipped hospital, makes it possible to perform dental treatments under general anesthesia. For this reason, the variety of cases that our students encounter and treat during their education is very high.
All students graduating from the faculties of dentistry, as dentists, have the competence of diagnosis and treatment within their professional boundaries. Thanks to the practical training they receive in our clinics equipped with modern and high-quality equipment, our alumni graduate with familiarity with current approaches such as “laser applications, CADCAM technology, and clear aligner treatments". In addition, they have the opportunity to follow scientific and technological developments at a universal level with the "professional foreign language education" they receive and thus apply current treatment approaches throughout their professional life.
“Our pharmacy faculty is an innovative faculty that provides 30% English education. The aim of our faculty is to train our students, who will be new members of the pharmacy profession, to be productive and responsible pharmacists equipped with international theoretical and practical knowledge, following the innovations. These pharmacists are trained as individuals who have the capacity to meet the pharmacist needs of our country, the health sector, and the pharmaceutical industry and have professional ethical values.
As of 2021, we provide our students with an interactive education in many fields from pharmacy pharmacist to clinical pharmacy and industrial pharmacy in our faculty accredited by ECZAKDER. We encourage their professional development by providing internship opportunities in different fields throughout their education life, and we aim to create an infrastructure where they can make better decisions in their business life.
In our Pharmaceutical Application and Research Center, our students have the opportunity to use many related equipment and devices in the fields of drug analysis, synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients, formulation development, and nanotechnological drugs. In our Phytotherapy Center within our university, our students gain experience in the applications of herbal products and raw materials. Thus, we offer a more comprehensive and well-equipped training specifically for the pharmaceutical industry.
“Our students who graduate from our Nutrition and Dietetics department stand out with their equipment, thanks to the wide application opportunities offered by our hospitals and the laboratory conditions offered by our university, in terms of putting their theoretical knowledge into practice. Our graduates start their business life as competent and qualified dietitians, thanks to the hands-on training they have received in fully equipped laboratories throughout their vocational education processes.
“In our Ergotherapy department, our graduates are trained with a rich education curriculum for four years. The training program continues with course contents and practices in different fields that will support the roots of the Occupational Therapy department based on psychology, medicine, and social sciences. In this context, our graduate students graduate as harmonious, hardworking, and devoted Occupational Therapists, who will be preferred by employers thanks to their different perspectives, holistic approaches, and effective communication with other disciplines."
“The training program of the Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation department has been prepared in accordance with national and international standards. Our students operate in cooperation with different disciplines of the field of health in the education and research laboratories of our department and in various departments of our hospitals. In addition, our students take theoretical and practical lessons from physiotherapist instructors who are specialized in their fields of education and research laboratories. Making practices with instructors specialized in different fields enables students to gain experience in different fields of physiotherapy while they are still at school, and facilitates the transition from university life to working life. Conferences, seminars, panels, and symposiums organized within the department bring our students together with professors working in different branches of physiotherapy, enabling them to increase their professional competence and closely follow the developments in the field. Our graduates, who were raised with these principles, who consider ethical principles, who can work with a multidisciplinary team approach, who have a sense of responsibility, and who can plan and implement physiotherapy and rehabilitation approaches in a solution-oriented way, will take their places in the society as soldiers of the health sector.
“HEPDAK accredited our Nursing department in 2022. Our department's curriculum has been prepared in line with national and international standards, and the content and weights of theoretical and practical courses have been determined in accordance with these criteria. With the student and faculty exchange programs created, students are provided with the opportunity to observe, examine and gain skills in patient care practices in different environments and hospitals. Head nurses who are aware of their responsibility towards their country and profession, who can use the science and art of nursing at the highest level to meet the health needs of the individual, family, and society, and who can assume the roles and functions of modern nursing, who can provide care with a holistic approach, who are innovative, investigative and can think critically, who act with a multidisciplinary team understanding, and consider ethical principles while fulfilling all of these, are trained in Bezmialem University. Starting from the first year of undergraduate education, our students are enabled to take an active role in national and international scientific activities and gain research experience; thanks to the graduation project and internship applications in the last year, their experience of adapting to working life and academic life are strengthened; their participation in student club activities and activities for their scientific, social and cultural development is supported."
“Our Audiology department students take an active role in the evaluation, diagnosis and rehabilitation processes of patients with hearing and/or balance problems in our clinics located in two campuses of our hospital. In this context, our students start intensive vocational training and clinical practices as of the 2nd grade. In addition, our students have compulsory summer internships in their 2nd and 3rd grades. In addition, with the intensive internship program and graduation project course in the last year, our students graduate ready for their professional life with experience in subjects such as approaching the patient, communication, managing the process, and conducting scientific research."
“In our Health Management department, in addition to providing much functional information under the title of "business" and "management of health institutions" throughout the undergraduate education, our graduates are given "basic computer applications, statistics, accounting, pre-accounting, mathematics" courses by expert academics in their fields and, thus they are provided with high-level knowledge of theory and practice. Subsequently, providing the opportunity for rotation within the scope of internship and occupational practice courses at our hospital for two semesters in the last year strengthens our students' ability to work in different departments, whether in healthcare institutions or private companies, after graduation. Today, many of our graduates continue their careers in pharmaceutical companies, health tourism businesses, public or private health institutions, and different businesses."
“Our Health Services Vocational School students perform their professions as health technicians with the skills and competencies they have. Our students receive their clinical training (skills training) with internships, professional practice courses, clinical and laboratory practice courses, on the job, face to face with real patients and in a medical team. At this point, our hospitals and polyclinics affiliated with our university also create an educational environment for our students. In addition to all compulsory education activities, our students can do extra practice by coming to the hospital on a voluntary basis. Even in the most difficult conditions during the days when the pandemic was intense, our students continued to train their skills in our hospitals. Especially since 2020, among the new graduate groups, Bezmiâlem SHMYO graduates differ from other graduate groups with their high level of skill acquisition. Our students graduate with an experience equivalent to almost 1-1.5 years of work experience. In the health sector, employers are generally looking for technicians who can keep up with the intense working tempo, and are prone to teamwork, sharing, and responsible. In a significant part of their education, our college students comprehend the intra-clinical relations within the real medical team, see the expectations, and gain and develop competencies by taking responsibilities appropriate to their student status. Being educated in a well-established health institution with its history, gaining the culture of foundation strengthens their personal aspects and allows them to grow up as people-oriented individuals who care about patient satisfaction, which the sector seeks.
We invite private and public health institutions to contact KAGEM so that they can evaluate employment opportunities with our graduates.
