Message from the Program Coordinator

Dear Students,

The purpose of the First and Emergency Aid Program is to train auxiliary health personnel, able to provide basic and advanced life support to patients and injured people in pre-hospital emergency services, to perform life-saving medical interventions and prevent permanent disabilities in patients, to plan and implement the appropriate emergency intervention approach, and to ensure that patients or injured people reach hospitals safely, by ambulance.

With the idea that our education plan should be as sensitive for such a sensitive profession, we offer practice-centered training at our modern and state-of-the-art laboratories and special first and emergency aid simulation rooms. We provide our students with the opportunity to receive the necessary training to become competent professionals equipped with theoretical and practical knowledge, with our academic staff, experts in their fields, with high levels of experience and specialty in their profession.

The year 2004 marked the beginning of a new era in Türkiye when paramedics started working in the ambulances of the 112 hotline. Their roles and responsibilities were determined by regulations. “Regulations on Emergency Health Services” was published in 2007, and later on came the Circular on the Working Principles and Procedures of Ambulance and Emergency Care Technicians and Emergency Medical Technicians in 2009; published in the Official Gazette, defining the roles and responsibilities of paramedics. In this context, students are required to obtain a driver's license by the beginning of the third semester.

Graduates of this program have a wide range of employment opportunities in the public sector or private ambulance companies, private hospital emergency services, as well as the ambulances and command centers of the 112 hotline. Considering the increasing number of emergency cases and the health sector gaining priority, it is evident that we should expect more employment opportunities to emerge in this field.

We would be glad to have our students aspiring to be in the health sector, to lend a helping hand to people in their first moments of struggle for life, and to become professionals in this field.