Information About the Program

Pre-hospital emergency healthcare is a crucial issue. Professional healthcare professionals trained in this field provide pre-hospital emergency medical care to patients who are injured, traumatized, poisoned, or otherwise, ensuring their survival by providing basic and advanced life support while they are transported to the emergency unit. A Paramedic is a person who ensures professional emergency care is provided outside the hospital. Paramedics have become essential and essential personnel due to new developments in ambulance systems and radical changes in the pre-hospital emergency system. Therefore, there is a need for trained personnel to work in ambulances and to monitor and implement changes in the 112 emergency response system. In this regard:

Objective: To contribute to the development and strengthening of our country's health services by training programs prepared in accordance with international professional standards in the field of health, in line with scientific, technological, and contemporary values, and by training technical personnel who are equipped with superior knowledge and skills; who can provide basic and advanced life support to patients and injured people in pre-hospital emergency health services; who can recognize all types of system trauma and implement the appropriate emergency approach; who can ensure that patients and injured people who have received first aid arrive safely at hospitals by ambulance; and who will be beneficial to society.

Program Language: Turkish

Qualifications Earned

Students who successfully complete the program will receive an associate's degree in first and emergency aid. They will then receive the title of "First and Emergency Aid Technician."

Admission and Registration Requirements: Turkish students are required to take the entrance exam administered by the Evaluation, Selection and Placement Center (ÖSYM). Students are placed in these programs based on their scores. Foreign students must have been placed in the relevant university unit for that academic year through the central placement system, based on the Foreign Student Exam (YÖS).

Recognition of Prior Learning: Students who come to the program through horizontal transfer or who have previously studied at other universities may be exempted from courses they have taken and passed at these institutions, by decision of the Board of Directors.

Graduation Requirements: In order for a student to graduate from the program in which he/she is enrolled, he/she must have taken and passed the courses required for graduation in that program, completed 120 credits, successfully completed practices, internships and similar studies, and have a minimum GPA of 2.00

Employment Opportunities: Graduates of the program can work in public and private healthcare institutions and organizations. Based on the competencies they have gained, students graduating from the First and Emergency Aid program can be employed in public and private healthcare institutions, universities, hospital emergency rooms, and land, air, and sea ambulances.

Transfer to Advanced Programs: Candidates who have completed their associate's degree can apply to undergraduate programs designated by ÖSYM by taking the Vertical Transfer Exam administered by ÖSYM. Available Undergraduate Programs: - Emergency Aid and Disaster Management, - Nursing, - Nursing and Health Services