Medipol University

What is Occupational Therapy?

Occupational therapy is a client-centred health profession concerned with promoting health and well being through occupation. The primary goal of occupational therapy is to enable people to participate in the activities of everyday life through the therapeutic use of activities. Occupational therapists achieve this outcome by working with people and communities to enhance their ability to engage in the occupations they want to, need to, or are expected to do, or by modifying the occupation or the environment to better support their occupational engagement). Unlike other professions, occupational therapy helps people function in all of their environments (e.g., home, work, school, community) and addresses the physical, psychological, and cognitive aspects of their well-being through engagement in occupation. Equipped with a solid grounding in both the medical and social sciences, occupational therapists work with people of all ages across the entire lifespan, from newborn infants to elders in hospice care.

Occupational therapy services typically include:

• An individualized evaluation.
• Determination of the person’s goal with the client, family, and occupational therapist.
• Customized intervention to improve the person’s ability to perform daily activities and reach the goals.
• An outcomes evaluation to ensure that the goals are being met and/or to modify the intervention plan based on the patient’s needs and skills.

Occupational therapists provide interventions in varied settings, including schools, hospitals, homeless shelters, nursing facilities, community clinics, private practices, corporations, executive health centers and wellness resorts. With the emerging autism epidemic, and an aging population, demand for occupational therapists will continue to be strong, now and into the foreseeable future. As a prospective occupational therapist, you will find a focus that fits your passion, from ergonomics, to rehabilitation, to wellness.

Completing Turkish secondary education or received equivalent overseas education and acquired enough points in the Turkish National Exam points Type of MF-3 our are necessary to start occupational therapy undergraduate education. Our students who complete 4 years undergraduate education graduate by taking the title of "occupational therapist".

Speech-language therapists (SLTs) work to prevent, assess, diagnose, and treat speech, voice, language, social communication, cognitive-communication, and swallowing disorders in children and adults.

Through clinical and scientific work, SLPs act as members of professional medical teams to increase the quality of life for a diverse population of varying age and health status including healthy individuals, patients and people with special needs. Speech and language therapy is recognized as a legitimate and autonomous occupation in Turkey as well as all over the world.

Our aim is to train speech and language therapy experts who follow the scientific developments and advances in technology and integrate this knowledge to their clinical practice, with an awareness of occupational ethics and values and eagerness for collaboration while practicing their profession with the highest level of competence to increase the quality of life of their clients.

Our program is designed with a focus on clinical practice provided through the hands-on applications and clinical practicum delivered at classes and clinical practice laboratories. Our graduates receive the “Speech and Language Therapist” title upon graduation.

Speech and language pathology is among the most preferred career paths in the health sciences area all over the world. Although it is a new the field in Turkey, it is among the careers with the highest rate of employment opportunities. Our graduates can be employed primarily at public and private hospitals, universities and educational institutions, therapy/rehabilitation and special education centers, public health, preventive and protective health institutions as well as choosing private practice.

IMU Department of Nutrition and Dietetics aims to train individuals who will take an active role in increasing awareness about health preservation, life span, quality of life, treatment of illnesses, as well as sufficient and balanced diet with a focus on the study of the relation between health and nutrition.

The duration of education is four years, and the language of education is Turkish. By the end of the third year, students attend a three-week summer practice program. During the last year, students follow their internship program, a supervised seven-months practice program with a general emphasis. Placement sites are with hospitals, diet/fitness centers, long-term care facilities, and county health departments. These students are expected to actively participate in solving of nutrition-related issues under the supervision of their professors and specialized dieticians. 

Employment opportunities include health care centers, nutrition and diet consulting centers, food industry, schools, elderly care homes, government agencies, armed forces, hospitals, hotels, restaurants, factories, catering services, and factories.

Civil Engineering (CE) aims to understand the civilization developments with invention of innovative engineering design methodologies, algorithms, managements and procedures.

Furthermore, CE depends on scientific and technological applications and develops approaches that cover basic scientific application principles and complex engineering designs to cope with some of the greatest challenges at different scales.

  Civil engineering education provides firm and sustainable foundations with up to date challenges to solve the problems related to social and civil services in construction, transportation, environment and energy sectors. CE department undergraduate program is established on elastic background in science applications from engineering point of view with emphasis on hand made design to application research projects that provide services to the society and both prior to own country and world at large. 

The undergraduate program educates and prepares students for careers in fields as diverse as engineering design, application and management. Graduates have opportunity to work in local and international diverse companies and firms, to initiate their own business, to hold leadership positions in government or private organizations. 

The Department of Computer Engineering of Medipol University is designed to provide its students broad perspective in the field of computer engineering, which is and will be one of the main driving forces of globalization and technological advancement.

At Medipol University, our mathematics, science and engineering based curriculum is supported by compulsory non-technical and elective courses, enabling students to improve their Professional capabilities, social, career and ethical responsibilities and also to understand the importance of innovation and entrepreneurship.

We provide the opportunity to study up to two semesters in Europe through the Erasmus programme, as well as pursuing a double majör or major/minor program. Students gain hands-on experience through the laboratory-based education and participation in the research projects. Compulsory internships in the summers following the fourth and sixth semesters enable students to gain experience in the application areas of their interests. At Medipol, Computer Engineering students are also given the chance to work in research projects starting from the third year. As the university provides a diverse collaboration between its departments, Computer Engineering students can work in projects from the medical area to the civil engineering. A vast application potential of Computer Engineering broadens students envision.

The Department of Computer Engineering has the strategy to equip the students with the qualifications to solve real-life problems and sustain continuous professional development. Being in an age of technology, the graduates will have lots of opportunities such as hardware and software development in various fields if the field of computing is right for you, the Department of Computer Engineering at Istanbul Medipol University is the perfect place for you to be innovative, creative, team worker, design new products and solve problems.

Istanbul Medipol University in University Rankings

Istanbul Medipol University is included in various institutional and field ranking systems and continues to show a steady rise in most of the rankings.

When knowledge and communication come together, they enhance people’s ability to design and manage their future. Being prepared for the future requires being planned and consistent from today. One of the indispensable elements of the modern understanding of quality management, “vision,” defines the expectations of institutions or individuals regarding the future and represents a significant ideal they aspire to achieve.

The vision of Istanbul Medipol University is to become a university that is recognized as exemplary both in our country and around the world through its excellence in education and training, its determination to cultivate well-equipped individuals who aspire to build the future of society, its highly qualified academic staff, and its contemporary infrastructure.

Our University aims to offer our students — and indirectly the society in which we live — an education that designs a better future. The development achieved within a limited period of time is a reflection of our success in being an institution that researches together, learns together, and teaches together with our strong academic staff and students who enrich us with their diversity. The efforts we carry out in line with our mission have begun to bear fruit. Despite our relatively short history in terms of university life, we take pride in our rapidly developing campus environment, our achievements in education and research, our academics who have been honored with national and international awards, and our graduates who serve in various levels of professional life.

Being a member of the Medipol community means internalizing continuous change and development, thinking independently, adapting to working across different disciplines, and aspiring to solve challenging problems.

It means focusing on innovative research and competitive advancement with the ambition of shaping the future. In short, it means preparing for tomorrow.

Prof. Dr. Bahadır Kürşat GÜNTÜRK
Rector