Mission

The mission of the Paramedic (First and Emergency Aid) Program is to educate healthcare professionals who are equipped with the knowledge, skills, and experience necessary to serve within the rapidly developing emergency medicine system both in Turkey and globally. The program aims to cultivate individuals who act in accordance with ethical and deontological principles, follow advancements in the field, and think critically and scientifically. Graduates are trained to identify and address health problems effectively in pre-hospital emergency care settings, provide both basic and advanced life support to patients and the injured, recognize all types of systemic trauma, and perform appropriate emergency interventions.

The program also seeks to train healthcare personnel capable of delivering professional pre-hospital emergency services, ensuring the safe and proper transfer of patients and casualties to appropriate medical centers until definitive treatment is provided, and performing life-saving and disability-preventing medical interventions. Additionally, it aims to produce qualified technicians who are attentive, composed, responsible, communicative, and able to assess the patient’s condition and environment, gather relevant information from relatives, perform first aid in hospital emergency departments, and, when necessary, operate ambulances.

Vision

The vision of the Paramedic (First and Emergency Aid) Program is to become an innovative and pioneering educational institution in the field of emergency health services—recognized both nationally and internationally—and to shape the future of emergency healthcare education in collaboration with its stakeholders.

Program Overview and Information

Graduates of the Paramedic (First and Emergency Aid) Program may work as technicians in the emergency departments and ambulance services of universities, public hospitals, and private healthcare institutions. Parallel to the growing importance of the healthcare sector in Turkey, the number of hospitals and ambulance services continues to increase, creating expanding employment opportunities. In the public sector, graduates form the primary workforce in 112 emergency call centers and stations, as well as in air and marine ambulance services.

In recent years, the private healthcare sector has also recognized the high quality and efficiency of paramedic professionals, employing them as indispensable healthcare personnel in ambulance-based emergency medical services under the title of Emergency Care Technician (Paramedic).

Students in the Paramedic Program complete their practical training in intensive care units, operating rooms, delivery rooms, and emergency departments of hospitals, and perform internships in 112 emergency ambulances. Applicants wishing to enroll in the program must meet the prerequisite stated in Article 233 of the University Entrance Examination Guide published by ÖSYM.

Graduates of the Paramedic (First and Emergency Aid) Program earn the professional title of “First and Emergency Aid Technician.” They may pursue vertical transfer (DGS) to bachelor’s degree programs in Emergency Aid and Disaster Management, Nursing, or Nursing and Health Services.