Hey! I would like to ask you guys about the language used in teaching medecine in Turkey. Is it English? Or simply Turkish, though English is more probable.

 As you know... according to the laws on Turkey, Universities are deciding their teaching language by themselves...

so some are in turkish... or in english... my university was teaching with %30 english due to being able get some acreditations...

so lots of the universities in Turkey are teaching medicine in English

Thank you so much for the information

As it seems, there´s a possibility that med´ students can work in other countries where English is a must in their hospitals. Also, isn´t there going to be any difficulties if there would be a number of doctors in the same hospital that received their medical education in different languages? Wouldn´t there be some problems in the means of communication?

Or is it going just fine?

One more thing, does Turkey welcome foreign students?

As far as I know very few universities are teaching medicine in English. I know around 20 univiersities and only one of them has English as teaching language. Here is it´s website.

http://www.tip.hacettepe.edu.tr/english/index.php

Have a look on this page about foreign students:

http://www.iso.hacettepe.edu.tr/iso/

Çok teşekkür ederim Erdinc! You helped a lot!!

That is so sad that they only teach in turkish! What if they moved to an english speaking country how would they know the medical terms and stuff? Here in Egypt even the public Universities teach in English! This makes me sad only because now i know ill never be a ble to mve to Tukey

Doudi,

They are using International terms in medicine. These are mostly latin terms. In Turkai in all medical faculties they are using foreign terms. It is not about the terms I was talking. I was referring to the actual classrooms.

Imagine a classroom full with Turkish students. Then the teacher comes in. He is also Turkish. But he starts talking in English. All the students talk in English as well during the entire lesson.  And this is repeated in all courses in that department. All the personel in that faculty, for instance in students registration office, students library etc. is also able to talk in English. All the paperwork, forms, id´s etc. for students are also in English. This is how a university works if they are teaching in English in Turkia.

We have a few universities that work completely that way. But none of them, if I remember correctly, has a medical faculty. Hacettepe University is mostly Turkish but they have a few departments, including a medical department that teaches in English.   

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