The goal of IMU Department of Orthotics and Prosthetics is to graduate orthotics/prosthetics specialists following technological developments and modern interventions of orthotics/prosthetics, designing new and different devices and taking up scientific regard.
IMU Department of Orthotics Prosthetics focuses on training orthotists/prosthetists who meet the needs of multidisciplinary health care system. Orthotics must be fabricated to give support and protection for the extremities to help and/or correct the movements in certain diseases and prosthetics must be fabricated due to extremity loss as a result of accidents and diseases. Ortotist/prosthetist is a health care staff who can decide and design the devices and who control fabrication process. IMU Department of Orthotics Prosthetics is the first school having four-year education in Turkey. The education language is Turkish. Building a rapport with the patient and practicing is an integral part of the educational program at an early stage, later on it is provided with summer clinical placements.
Orthotists/prosthetists can find job opportunities at universities, government, private and university hospitals, rehabilitation centers, private and public ateliers of orthotics and prosthetics. Graduates can also run their own ateliers of orthotics and prosthetics. They can lecture in their field after graduation master’s degree and PhD.