Prof. Dr. Hülya AKGÜN

Pharmacists as a health-care profession assume responsibility for the management of drug therapy in patients, the compounding and dispensing of medications, and the generation and transmission of knowledge about the proper selection and use of drugs and their effect on all living beings.

Yeditepe University Faculty of Pharmacy had started undergraduate program in 2002.  Language of instruction is English. There is Preparatory School for candidates who fail in English proficiency examination.

During the five undergraduate years, pharmacy education should not only consist of the drug-oriented medical and pharmaceutical components that are considered part of a classical pharmacy instruction; but it should also focus on patient-oriented services that take into consideration the patient's social, psychological, cultural and economic status. By providing such an education we can improve the esteem in which our profession is held with its drug research and development laboratories equipped with advanced technology.

The faculty is on the way to becoming one of Turkey's most modern and contemporary education and health institutions, and one of only a few examples specializing in this area.

In addition to theoretical and practical education during their undergraduate studies, the students complete their internships, in a way which aims to compliment their educational program, in our university's practice pharmacy, in retail/community pharmacies, in hospital and clinical settings, and in cosmetic and pharmaceutical manufacturing companies. Thus, faculty aims to provide opportunities whereby students encounter a variety of situations that they may potentially face in their career. During the standard pharmacy bachelors' degree education our students have also opportunities to enroll in a double major or minor program in another discipline, such as is offered in Department of Genetics and Bioengineering, Department of Business Administration, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences and the like.

Faculty offers three Doctorate Programs (Pharmacognosy, Pharmaceutical Chemistry, and Toxicology) and five Master of Science programs (phytotherapy, pharmaceutical chemistry, cosmetics, clinical pharmacy and pharmacoeconomy and pharmacoepidomiology) as graduate programs.

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