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Erciyes University PROSPECTUS

ACADEMIC STAFF
Based on the number of academic staff members, the Faculty
of Medicine is one of the leading faculties in Turkey. There are
919 teaching staff members, consisting of 161 professors, 48
associate professors, 59 assistant professors, 24 lecturers, five
specialists, and 627 research assistants.
FACILITIES
Teaching is carried out in a variety of classrooms within two dif-
ferent complexes. First, second, and third-year students study
in amphitheatres in Central Classes – where there is also a con-
ference room for 500 students and an internet café - whereas
fourth and fifth-year students study at the Clinical Sciences
Complex. This complex consists of eight classrooms, an inter-
net café, cafés, and reading rooms. In addition, a lab complex
(Microbiology, Medical Biology, Medical Genetics, Pathology,
Histology-Embryology), renovated and furnished with state-
of-the-art equipment, serves students together with a com-
puter lab containing 80 computers. All classrooms and labs
have internet access and audio-visual equipment. With an
area of 450 square meters, the Medical Skill Lab provides first
through third-year students with the opportunity to study on
models in the pre-clinical education phase. Conferences, sym-
posia, and workshops are held every year in addition to scien-
tific meetings on special days and weeks. A Quadro telecon-
ference system over ISDN exists in the conference room of the
Gevher Nesibe Hospital. All operating rooms are connected to
this teleconference system in order to provide students with
the opportunity to observe operations synchronously.
ACTIVITIES AND INSTITUTIONS WE COOPERATE WITH

Erciyes University Medical School consists of five hospitals,
one Central Lab, the Hakan Çetinsaya Experimental and Clini-
cal Research Center, and the Good Clinical Practice Center. In
addition to these facilities, the following were constructed by
local contributors: the Semiha-Asım Kibar Transplantation and
Dialysis Hospital, the Mehmet Kemal Dedeman Haematol-
ogy and Oncology Hospital, the Yılmaz and Mehmet Öztaşkın
Heart Hospital, the Mustafa Eraslan and Fevzi Mercan Chil-
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