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General Information

Aim of the Program

Purpose of this department is to educate the graduates; who can determine the movement and functional disorders, who have skills with competence to apply preventive and therapeutic approaches, who take into consideration of benefits of community, who can plan a multidisciplinary approach or compatible to teamwork, who can use information technologies or scientific research methods effectively and who can generate evidence-based practices.

Target of the Program

Targets of this department : Students who are admitted to the department are successfully complete the at least worth of 240 ECTS of courses who are completion program meets the qualification.

Career Opportunities

Physiotherapists who have graduated from this program can work as health care professionals and if they want to advance their careers with academic studies at a higher level is possible.

Future of the Department

As a result of the Covid-19 pandemic in the world, people have gone through an inactive period, and many individuals who have had the disease have had permanent damage, especially to the respiratory system and musculoskeletal system. According to the data of the World Health Organization, our world is getting older with the rapid increase in the elderly population and attention should be paid to the issue of healthy aging. In addition to these, the need for physiotherapy and rehabilitation has increased and has become a necessity today, as a result of the fact that business life pushes adults to a sedentary life during the Industry 5.0 period, and as a result of the decrease in physical activity and obesity in children as technology develops. Subjects such as musculoskeletal system problems, cardiopulmonary system diseases, obesity and diabetes are important, current, and developing issues in the physiotherapy and rehabilitation department for healthy aging. There is a need for scientific research in all areas of physiotherapy and rehabilitation, especially on these issues, and physiotherapists who will treat patients in clinics.

Who Should Choose

It will be a suitable choice for anyone who wants to maintain the well-being of healthy people and is interested in preventive physiotherapy, who wants to specialize in respiratory physiotherapy which has increased n importance with the pandemic, and who wants to increase the health and well-being of people in orthopedic, neurological and many other fields, or do scientific research. Become a physiotherapist, give meaning to life!

Working Places

Students who graduate from this section can work in: public hospitals, private hospitals, hospitals owned by foundations, specialized hospitals like oncology, respiratory diseases, cardiovascular surgery, branch centers and private clinics that are relevant to their subject, rehabilitation and training institutions for the disabled persons, care and rehabilitation centers for elderly, Sport clubs, industrial organizations, vocational rehabilitation centers, spas, home care agencies, Prosthetic orthotic laboratories, Training and consulting firms.

Programmes allowing Horizontal Transfer

Students enrolled in this program can transfer between health science departments