Anesthesia program started to provide education at associate degree level in 2001.

When the program is successfully completed and the program qualifications are provided, in the field of anesthesia (5th level) has an associate degree.

Short Cycle

Entry to the anesthesia program is made with the score of the Higher Education Institutions Examination (YKS) conducted by the Evaluation, Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM). Student quota is 74. If the quota remains open, ÖSYM accepts students through Additional Placement according to the TYT score type results.

The provisions in “Regulation on Transfer among Associate and Undergraduate Degree Programs, Double Major, and Subspecialty and the Principals of Credit Transfer among Institutions in Higher Education Institutions” are applied.

In order to complete the anesthesia program and obtain an associate degree, students must successfully complete all of the compulsory and elective courses (equivalent to a total of 121 ECTS) in the program and have a GPA of at least 2.00 out of 4.00.

The aim of the program is to train Anaesthesia Technicians who have the faculty of improving and updating their skills and abilities in their field, and have improved the skills and knowledge of performing their duties and responsibilities proper to legal frames and ethic rules in the teams at the anaesthesia applications for special patients and operations to fallow and keep records of vital functions during the applications, to prepare and use the necessary equipment for the anaesthesia and analgesia applications, to prepare the patients before the operations in the Reanimation and Anaesthesiology units of health institutions and organizations. The program´s period of study is four semesters (including internship) The internship lasts 30 work days at the end of the fourth semester.

1. Professionally evaluate and apply the knowledge gained through the theoretical and applied courses which are at the base level aided with visual and practical resources, and application tools and course notes including the applications in the field of anaesthesia.
2. Perform every step of the general anaesthesia application, identify and intervene in possible complications.
3. Perform monitored patient care, sedo/ analgesia applications, standard equipment applications of anaesthesia out of surgery, and patient preparation and monitoring.
4. Are aware of the necessity that the vital functions of the patient must be monitored and the related anaesthesia forms must be completed, and record them regularly.
5. Act proper to the related laws, regulations and directives with the granted rights and responsibilities as an individual performing anaesthesia, and obey the ethic values with awareness of the team work responsibilities.
6. Perform the processes of patient evaluation, materials and medicine preparation and monitoring before the anaesthesia application.
7. Have the faculty of patient and equipment preparation at regional blocks, help interventions and monitor the patient.
8. Perform safe anaesthetic and analgesic applications when the patient has side diseases and at special operation types.
9. Perform the controls, maintenance, protection, preparation for use and use of the gadgets and equipment used in anaesthesia and analgesia applications.
10. Show the ability of awareness, approach and application skills at cardiopulmonary resuscitations.
11. Intervene in the possible special cases and emergency approaches at reanimations, provide safe patient transports.
12. Update their knowledge, skills and faculties of the field with the conciousness of life long learning, and attend the programs, vocational in-service activities and other studies in order to improve themselves individually and professionally.

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Occupational Profiles of Graduates With Examples

The graduates work as "Anaesthesia Technician" in public and private health institutions and organizations. Their employment fields are Surgeries and units under the Surgeries of public and private inpatient treatment institutions under the Health Ministry, and they work in line with the directives of the doctors. They can be appointed as Health Technicians in accordance with the Public Personnel Selection Examination (KPSS).

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Access to Further Studies

The students of Anaesthesia program can be transferred to the undergraduate programs of "Nursing Care", "Emergency Service and Disaster Management", and "Nursing and Health Services" via the External Transfer Examination (DGS).

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Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading

Every student must sign up for the courses at the beginning of the semester, and attend at least 70 % of the classes and 80 % of the applications to be able to sit for the semester end examination. Students must sit for at least 1 mid-term exam and 1 semester end examination for each course. The mid-term exam (grades that will be resulted from the following evaluation means of a homework assignment, application exam, laboratory exam, seminar presentation or quiz may well be added to the evaluation of the mid-term grades) contributes 40 % percent and the semester end examination contributes 60 % to the calculation of the success grade. Every examination is evaluated over 100 points. It is compulsory to have at least 50 points from the semester end examination. The pass grade of a course is at least 50 points, and the success of a class is evaluated via Relative Evaluation System. The students who take the grades of AA, BA, BB, CB and CC from a course become successful at the course. The grades of DC and DD are conditional pass grades. In order to become successful at a course that a student takes, he or she has to have at least 2.00 general weighted grade average (GANO) when graduating from the school.

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Graduation Requirements

In order to successfully complete the program, it is necessary to pass all the courses available in the program (equivalent to 121 ECTS), obtain a GPA of at least 2.00 out of 4.00, and successfully complete the 30-day internship at the end of the second year.

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Mode of Study

Full-Time

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Address and Contact Details

Program Başkanı:
Doç.Dr.Selcan AKESEN
selcanakesen@uludag.edu.tr

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Facilities

Öğretim dili Türkçe olup, Kontenjan sayısı 74´tür. Hazırlık programı ve ikinci öğretimi yoktur. Dersler okul dershaneleri ile U.Ü. Tıp Fakültesi Anesteziyoloji ve Reanimasyon Anabilim Dalı dersliklerinde yapılmaktadır. Uygulamalar ise Sağlık Uygulama ve Araştırma Merkezi ameliyathanelerinde gerçekleştirilmektedir.

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Curriculum