Dokuz Eylül University Information Package / Courses Catalog

General Description

History

Medical Physics Department was established at the Institute of Health Sciences as an interdisciplinary department in 2006. The department faculty consists of the members from the Departments of Radiation Oncology, Nuclear Medicine, Radiology from The Medicine Faculty and also from the Physics Department of Science Faculty. The main objective of the program, the required contributions to scientific issues related to the medical physics capable of efficient and effective work discipline has gained the power to educate people with entrepreneurial skills. Doctoral degree is covered courses and research for four-year program. The first two years taking courses related to the field of specialization and thesis preparation period. In addition to the compulsory courses in the curriculum, students specialize on the appropriate area, is an interdisciplinary elective courses. The program language is Turkish.

Qualification Awarded

Doctorate Degree in Medical Physics,PhD

Level of Qualification

Third Cycle (Doctorate Degree)

Specific Admission Requirements

Physics, Medical Physics, Radiotherapy Physics, Health Physics, Biophysics or Computer Engineering, Nuclear Physics and Nuclear Energy Engineering, Biomedical, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Medical Biology, Medical Biology and Genetics, Biology, Molecular Medicine, Biochemistry from Engineering Faculties to have done. Acceptable score on ALES (Academic Personnel and Graduate Education Entrance Exam) or Equivalent GRE, GMAT score. Acceptable score on Language Proficiency Tests. Acceptable weighted score based on the first or second cycle (with thesis) cumulative grade point average (GPA) and ALES score. However, ALES requirement is waived for the graduates of doctorate /arts proficiency/medical residency/ dental residency/ veterinary residency/ pharmaceutical residency programs as well as for the admissions to the graduate programs offered by the Conservatory and the departments of Fine Arts Faculty, where students are admitted only by the Artistic Aptitude Test. Foreing Language score should be at least 60. Final admission is based on the evaluation of the related academic unit committee. International student admission requirements are decided by the Graduate School Executive Committee.

Specific Arrangements for Recognition of Prior Learning (Formal, Non-Formal and Informal)

A successful student who has completed at least one semester at any postgraduate programme may be admitted to an institute at the University by lateral transfer. Requirements for admission of students by lateral transfer are determined by the Board of Directors of the Institute.Students who have matriculated after they have successfully passed the postgraduate entrance exam may be exempted from the courses they have already taken in other institutes upon the proposal of the relevant department and the approval of the Board of Directors of the Institute. However, the total credits of the exempted courses cannot exceed 1/3 of the credits required to finish the relevant programme.

Qualification Requirements and Regulations

Third Cycle (Doctorate Degree) Program is comprised of courses, (at least 78 ECTS), field study (12 ECTS) and thesis (150 ECTS), in total 240 ECTS credits. Students must have minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 2.50/4.00 and completed all the courses with at least CB / S / TP grades.

Profile of the Programme

The objective of this program is to provide advanced medical physicist to qualify and improve the diagnostic and treatment related devices, quality control, quality assurance, to have knowledge of radiation dosimetry, radiation protection, and to research on various fields of medical physics.

Key Learning Outcomes

1	Having advanced knowledge about the principles of the working of diagnostic and therapeutic equipments and having able to perform them.
2	Having advanced knowledge about specification and acceptance testing, quality assurance and calibration of imaging equipments and having able to perform them.
3	Having advanced knowledge about specification and acceptance testing, quality assurance and calibration of equipments using in radiation oncology and having able to perform them.
4	Having advanced knowledge about radiation dose measurement and calculation and having able to perform them.
5	Having advanced knowledge about radiotherapy planning manually and computer aided and having able to perform them.
6	Designs, makes and improves material and apparatus that use in diagnostic and therapy
7	Provides quality insurance and radiation safety
8	Having advanced knowledge about obtaining, archiving and transmitting of the medical images and having able to perform them.
9	Trains of physicist, residents, radiological technologists and /or other allied health professionals working in diagnostic radiology, nuclear medicine, radiation oncology.
10	Educates of health professionals in diagnostic imaging physics and radiation effects
11	Having able to know national and international official subjects and rules.
12	Accessing to scientific information related to research area; assessing and applying
13	Carrying on a research individually by using the knowledge related to specialization area
14	Recording research data, analyzing, assessing and translating them regarding ethical issues
15	Being able to communicate with other teams, leaders and specialists which are related or unrelated to area of interest
16	Having the ability of oral and written presentation in mother tongue and foreign language
17	Following up-to-date occupational topics
18	Innovating the literature by making a publication of a research related to medical physics

Occupational Profiles of Graduates with Examples

This degree enables the holder to exercise the profession in the public or private sector.

Access to Further Studies

Graduates may apply to post doctorate studies

Course Structure Diagram with Credits

Semester	No	Course Unit Code	Course Unit Title	Course Unit Type	T	P	L	ECTS
Every student must register to total of 30 ECTS. 150 out of 240 ECTS must be thesis studies. Throughout PhD study, each student must collect 90 ECTS (including 12 ECTS of Specialty Area course) in 3 semesters. During course period of PhD study, every student should enroll to at least 20 ECTS of common elective courses (such as, Research culture, research methods and transferrable skills) and at least 20 ECTS more from discipline based and laboratory skill courses. Also, student may enroll to a common elective, discipline based and laboratory skill courses in a different institute or university to complete 20 ECTS. Every student must register to Thesis related reseach topic I in first semester and Thesis related reseach topic II in second semester. Furthermore, during course period , each student should attend to a Ethics course or training.
T: Theoretical P: Practice L: Laboratory B: Spring Semester G: Fall Semester H: Full Year
ALL COURSES
G	1	SBE 6025	QUALITATIVE RESEARCH METHODS	ELECTIVE	1	0	0	3
G	2	SBE 6082	COMMUNITY SERVICE PRACTICES AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY PROJECTS	ELECTIVE	1	2	0	9
G	3	SBE 6054	DATA-BASE SEARCHING IN HEALTH SCIENCES AND EVIDENCE-BASED MEDICINE	ELECTIVE	1	0	0	3
G	4	SBE 6027	HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE	ELECTIVE	1	0	0	3
G	5	SBE 6084	ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN HEALTH SCIENCES II	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
G	6	SBE 6083	ENTREPRENEURSHIP IN HEALTH SCIENCES	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
G	7	SBE 6081	MILESTONES OF SCIENTIFIC DISCOVERY	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	9
G	8	SBE 6080	INTERDISCIPLINARY PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT IN HEALTHCARE	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	9
G	9	MDF 6027	SPECT IMAGING	ELECTIVE	4	0	0	4
G	10	MDF 6026	PET IMAGING	ELECTIVE	4	0	0	4
G	11	MDF 6300	RESEARCH SUBJECTS FOR THESIS II	REQUIRED	3	0	0	10
G	12	MDF 6200	RESEARCH SUBJECTS FOR THESIS I	REQUIRED	3	0	0	8
G	13	MDF 6025	QUALITY ASSURANCE IN RADIOTHERAPY	ELECTIVE	2	2	0	9
G	14	MDF 6023	GAMMA SPECTROSCOPY	ELECTIVE	4	0	0	12
G	15	MDF 6019	ADVANCED EXTERNAL RADIOTHERAPY TECHNIQUES	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	9
G	16	MDF 6017	INNOVATIONS IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE	ELECTIVE	1	0	0	3
G	17	MDF 6015	TREATMENT AND DOSIMETRIC METHODS IN NUCLEAR MEDICINE	ELECTIVE	1	2	0	6
G	18	MDF 6013	ADVANCED NUCLEAR MEDICINE TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS	ELECTIVE	1	2	0	6
G	19	MDF 6011	ADVANCED MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS	ELECTIVE	4	4	0	18
G	20	MDF 6009	NUMERICAL ANALYSIS METHODS IN MEDICAL PHYSICS	ELECTIVE	2	2	0	6
G	21	MDF 6007	ANATOMY AND PHYSIOLOGY	ELECTIVE	3	2	0	8
G	22	MDF 6005	PHYSICS OF MEDICAL IMAGING	ELECTIVE	4	2	0	10
G	23	MDF 6001	RADIATION PHYSICS	ELECTIVE	4	0	0	8
G	24	SBE 6085	DISASTERS AND PUBLIC HEALTH	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	6
G	25	SBE 6068	COMPUTER APPLIED STATISTICS	ELECTIVE	1	2	0	6
G	26	SBE 6071	PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT	ELECTIVE	1	0	0	3
G	27	SBE 6075	GENDER EQUALITY	ELECTIVE	1	2	0	6
G	28	SBE 6061	RECORDING AND PRESENTING EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH DATA	ELECTIVE	1	0	0	3
G	29	SBE 6078	ETHICS IN HEALTH SCIENCES II	REQUIRED	1	0	0	3
G	30	BEP 6001	SCIENTIFIC PRESENTATIONS	ELECTIVE	1	0	0	3
G	31	SBE 6079	PLANNING, CARRYING OUT AND EVALUATION OF EXPERIMENTAL RESEARCH PROJECTS	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
B	32	MDF 6008	MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN MEDICAL PHYSICS	ELECTIVE	4	0	0	8
B	33	SBE 6058	CREATIVITY, DISCOVERY AND INNOVATION IN SCIENCE	ELECTIVE	1	0	0	3
B	34	MDF 6006	PHYSICS OF NUCLEAR MEDICINE	ELECTIVE	4	2	0	10
B	35	MDF 6018	RADIATION ONCOLOGY	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	9
B	36	MDF 6004	PHYSICS OF RADIOTHERAPY	ELECTIVE	4	2	0	10
B	37	MDF 6002	RADIATION PROTECTION AND RADIATION SAFETY	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	4
B	38	MDF 6024	PHOTON AND ELECTRON DOSIMETRY	ELECTIVE	3	2	0	8
B	39	MDF 6016	RADIOPHARMACY IN MEDICAL PHYSICS	ELECTIVE	2	2	0	9
B	40	MDF 6098	SPECIALTY AREA	EXPERTNESS	3	0	0	12
B	41	MDF 6014	RADIOBIOLOGY	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
B	42	MDF 6199	THESIS STUDY	THESIS	0	0	0	150
B	43	MDF 6012	DOSIMETRIC METHODS FOR DIAGNOSTIC INVESTIGATIONS	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
B	44	MDF 6022	APPLICATIONS OF RADIOTHREAPY	ELECTIVE	0	16	0	9
B	45	MDF 6010	ADVANCED IMAGING TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
B	46	SBE 6070	MEDICAL EDUCATION: BASIC PRINCIPLES AND METHODS	ELECTIVE	1	0	0	3
B	47	SBE 6069	RESEARCH METHODS AND ADVANCED ANALYSIS TECHNIQUES IN HEALTH SCIENCES	ELECTIVE	3	0	0	9
B	48	MDF 6020	ADVANCED BRACHYTHERAPY TECHNIWUES	ELECTIVE	2	2	0	9
B	49	SBE 6066	DEVELOPMENT OF ASSESSMENT TOOLS	ELECTIVE	1	0	0	3
B	50	SBE 6065	BIOMEDICAL MANAGEMENT	ELECTIVE	2	0	0	6
B	51	SBE 6062	HOW TO WRITE AND PUBLISH RESEARCH ARTICLES	ELECTIVE	1	0	0	3
B	52	MDF 6400	SEMINAR	SEMINAR	0	3	0	3

Examination Regulations, Assessment and Grading

The assessment criteria for each course are defined in the Course Description Form included in the information pack prepared by the faculty member/members. The relevant items of the DEU Undergraduate, Graduate Education-Training and Exam Regulations and Instutie Examination Regulations apply in relation to exams and course grades. To be successful in this course must be received at least 75.

Graduation Requirements

TThird Cycle (Doctorate Degree) Program is comprised of courses, (at least 78 ECTS), field study (12 ECTS) and thesis (150 ECTS), in total 240 ECTS credits. Students must have minimum Cumulative Grade Point Average (CGPA) of 2.50/4.00 and completed all the courses with at least CB / S / TP

Mode of Study (Full-Time, Part-Time, E-Learning )

Full-time

Programme Director or Equivalent

Prof. Dr. Emel ADA
e-mail:emel.ada@deu.edu.tr
Tel: 90.232.4125905

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