Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation (Turkish – PhD)

Overview

General Information About Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Doctorate Program

The Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation department is a four-year undergraduate program. With graduate education, they can get the title of specialist, associate professor, and professor.

Physiotherapists are the people who apply the treatment for patients with various diseases and in the field of preventive health so that they can lead a normal life and rejoin life.

They can work in public or university hospitals, private hospitals, rehabilitation centers, home care units, sports health centers, retirement homes, thermal hotels, sports clubs, and municipalities.

Physiotherapists may turn to areas such as pediatric rehabilitation, musculoskeletal rehabilitation, orthopedic rehabilitation, pelvic floor rehabilitation, athlete rehabilitation, and manual therapy during and after doctoral education.

Post-doctoral physiotherapists can use, adapt and develop new methods of physical therapy methods and equipment in assessment and treatment. They can plan and conduct laboratory-based research. They can turn the research into a product or a utility model and carry out patent studies. They can plan research projects and find resources by asking clinical questions and developing hypotheses.

Purpose of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Doctorate Program

Having the qualifications of a scientist at the universal level in education, research, and application in the field of physiotherapy and rehabilitation, able to practice at a high level in the special fields of physiotherapy and rehabilitation according to the different health needs of the society, planning and conducting original research independently, presenting the new information obtained for the benefit of science and humanity, To train physiotherapists who can contribute to national policies, who are knowledgeable, intellectual, sufficient and competent on a national and international scale.

We aim to train scientists who are scientifically equipped, researchers, competent, able to contribute to education and training and act in accordance with ethical principles and values, through seminar programs, in addition to the theoretical and practical courses offered at the advanced level with the master’s and doctoral programs carried out within our institute.