Dear Valued Participants Who Aim to Enhance Their Competencies by Pursuing Graduate Education in Healthcare Management,
I sincerely congratulate you on your decision to choose the field of Healthcare Management and Acıbadem University. You will soon realize how right this decision is, both in your near future and throughout every stage of your professional life.
At Acıbadem University, you will receive an education within a thematic university, supported by the success story of a well-established and branded healthcare provider and its team, alongside distinguished academics who are highly sought after in their fields. In this way, you will experience what it truly means to be integrated with the sector, learning by engaging directly with those who produce not only in academia but also in practice across all disciplines of healthcare management. You will internalize every stage of your education together with a globally recognized healthcare institution, and you will establish a balance between theory and practice with a team of pioneering and leading healthcare professionals who have consistently achieved firsts.
In the field of healthcare management, two major challenges are being addressed simultaneously across all countries in the world: one is managing the increasing and diversifying demand for healthcare services, and the other is coordinating the inevitable rise in healthcare expenditures with efforts toward sustainability and a sense of equity. These challenges have significantly increased the demand for managers trained in healthcare management in both public and private healthcare sectors in recent years.
As graduates of healthcare management, you will analyze healthcare service delivery and financing, and make decisions regarding the effective use of resources and technology. By using resources in a cost-effective manner, you will take on the responsibility of healthcare management, ensuring that in every area you lead, the right things are done and done correctly.
Through all these contributions, you will add great value first to yourselves, then to your institutions, and ultimately to the healthcare sector. As a result, by contributing to a sector driven by teamwork, you will demonstrate the power of knowledge through your postgraduate education. You will be able to identify appropriate intervention areas using rational methods for the unique constraints related to the delivery, financing, organization, and legislation of healthcare services. By ensuring efficiency and effectiveness in healthcare management, you will directly contribute to human life and productivity. This contribution may also extend to the development of new knowledge and added value in healthcare technologies, even reaching the level of patents, by training future scientists.
Thus, together with the “Acıbadem” brand in the healthcare sector, the positive interaction created by you—our valued graduate students—who are committed to teamwork and uphold the principles of innovation, participation, and collective wisdom, will continue to bring a distinctive strength to healthcare management, as it has done so far.
Prof. Dr. Mesut Çimen
Program Director
The aim of the program is to contribute to the training of healthcare managers and leaders for the Turkish healthcare sector. The program is particularly suitable for recent graduates who aim to build a career in the healthcare sector, as well as healthcare professionals who wish to further enhance their competencies and accelerate their careers.
The duration of the program is 1.5 years. Students are required to complete at least 10 courses, totaling no fewer than 30 credits, and successfully complete a term project.
In the Non-Thesis Master’s Program in Healthcare Management at Acıbadem University, the compulsory courses included in the curriculum are designed to provide students with fundamental knowledge on key issues that are considered important in today’s healthcare sector. In addition to the compulsory courses, 7-week modular elective courses aim to equip students with more in-depth knowledge in the areas they wish to pursue in their careers and to enhance their field-specific competencies.
The program is conducted by highly qualified faculty members who are experts in their field. Their guidance in selecting graduation projects that contribute both to the students themselves and to their professional fields is among the key reasons for choosing this program.
