PROSTHETICS & ORTHOTICS - Department Information   
Language Turkish
Program Time (Year) 2
Max.Program Time (Year) 4
Program Quota
Internships Status Absent
.Graduate Degree HEALTH TECNICIAN
About Programme
History
Education program started in the "Vocational School of Health Services" in 1985 with the title of Prosthetics Orthotics. The title is changed to Orthopedic Prosthetics Orthotics in 2010. More than 500 prosthetics orthotics technicians have been graduated with the knowledge and skills of fabrication and revision of Prostheses and Orthoses since 1985. Students have been coming from the health related Vocational high schools without university entrance exams since 2002-2003 academic year. However normal high school graduates can also register to the school with the points received from university entrance exam if there is still quota.Education period is two years (4 semesters) and education language is Turkish. There are obligatory English Language Courses in the first and second semesters and a selective one titled as "Vocational English for Medical Technicians". Clinical placement of the students could be done in the Prosthetics Orthotics workshop of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation Department of Health Science Faculty and in the private Prosthetics Orthotics centers having high standards with the support of the lecturers and Prosthetics Orthotics technicians. Hacettepe University Vocational Health School is the first school with its specialized lecturers in their own fields. The students receive intense theoretical and practical classes during the 2 years besides the clinical study. Public and private work settings prefer our graduates for their first option.
Qualification Awarded
Associate Degree
Admission Requirements
To be a graduate of normal or vocational high school. Vocational high school graduates are accepted without university entrance exam. Normal high school graduates are accepted in regards with their points of received from university entrance exam.
Higher Grade Transition
Bachelor's Degree
Graduation Requirements
The students can be graduated when they complete two years(4 semesters) education. For the graduation issues Pre-licence and Licence Education and Examination regulation of Hacettepe University is applied.(http://www.oid.hacettepe.edu.tr/index_sub.php?grp=y&dir=&file=lisans_20120928_0934&filetype=html&submenuheader=3)
Occupational Profiles of Graduates
Orthopedic program graduates can work in Prosthetics Orthotics workshops those are situated in government military or private hospitals/clinics/rehabilitation centers and their own private Prosthetic Orthotic workshops. They fabricate spinal orthoses, short/long gait orthoses and other orthotic devices besides extremity prostheses. The field of Orthopedic Prosthetic Orthotic is continuously evoluting itself so that workers of the field is required increasingly.
Assessment and Grading



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