Head of Department – Assoc. Prof. Nuray Alaca
A physiotherapist is the person who identifies, plans and implements protocols by conducting professional measurements and tests in order to enhance the mobility of healthy people and to organize their physical activities. Physiotherapists are healthcare professionals who are equipped with the knowledge and skills to plan and implement treatments for improving movement and loss of physical function experienced by patients in conjunction with the diagnosis of specialist physicians. They play a vital role in increasing the quality of health and standard of life.
Advances made in modern day health sciences have led to an increase in longevity. This increase has served to firmly emphasize the importance of the concept of quality of life. Physiotherapists play a key role in increasing the quality of life of people. Physiotherapists’ field of practice is growing and becoming more diverse.
The Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation of the Faculty of Health Sciences at Acıbadem University offers a 4-year undergraduate program which includes basic and clinical science lessons as well as practical and theoretical training revolving around the planning and application of treatment programs. The course is taught in Turkish. The aim is to develop the vision of students by supporting education with an intensive English education and monitoring of international literature.
The program is prepared at the standards of education and training provided at Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Schools in developed countries. In addition to participation in an intensive education program, we expect our graduate physiotherapists to be physically and culturally active, patient, tolerant, friendly, responsible, and respectful of human rights, helpful to patients and disabled people, with strong communication skills and who are predisposed to teamwork. Students who graduate from this program will learn how to be physiotherapists who can act independently, use initiative, be creative and to have problem solving skills. This is associated with becoming a physiotherapist who has embraced the principles of lifelong learning, who is dedicated to research and who has the capacity to develop new ideas. Upon their graduation, students who enroll on this program will be fully equipped in both theory and practice.
