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Discover a career in Medicine & Health Professions

Hasan al-Omar
May 23, 2021

The medical and health professions like medicine, pharmacy, and other fields, are among the most mattering areas in modern society, so, logically, medical degrees are long and demanding and among the most challenging paths and competitive to initiate.

If you want to study any medical specialty in Turkey, like medicine, you have many prestigious Turkish universities that can offer the chance; nevertheless, they are all authentic to study medicine in them.


Many Turkish medical schools today consider practical development a significant focus of their programs. In addition to attending seminars and lectures; also, you will have the opportunity to observe professional healthcare practitioners during their real-time in action; moreover, you will gain a solid experience that will help you in the future.

Top medical and health specialties in Turkey:

  • Human Medicine
  • Pharmacy
  • Medical
  • Engineering Health Sciences Health
  • Administration
  • Nursing Sciences
  • Addiction Treatment and Rehabilitation
  • Anesthesiology
  • Neurophysics

Potential career paths after graduation from one of the medical and health specialties:

As it is known, medicine and other health sciences operators often in direct contact with patients. The following are some career paths related to health sciences:

General practitioner
Doctors (MDs) can work in a variety of fields. GPs are usually the first doctors seen by a patient when dealing with a non-urgent medical problem.

Through study (specialization stage) and additional training, doctors can become specialists (ophthalmologist, neurologist, general surgeon, ...), perform surgeries, work in clinics, hospitals, or even open their own clinic.

Physician assistant

Physician assistants perform many of the same medical tasks as physicians. They examine patients, interpret test results, make diagnoses, assist with surgeries, treat minor medical problems, and even prescribe medication.

Nursing

Nurses work in a variety of departments, monitoring symptoms and dealing with patient's conditions. They interpret tests and consult other healthcare professionals, such as physicians, in developing and modifying treatment plans. They run tests, operate medical equipment, and treat patients in anything from mild cases to life-threatening emergencies.

Pharmacy

Working as a pharmacist in a pharmacy or a hospital, the pharmacist can also find opportunities in academic fields. Fields interested in pharmacy science, like working in the pharmaceutical industry, regulatory bodies as a clinical researcher, a scientist, a toxicologist, or even a pharmacologist in laboratories.

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