Why BAU Medicine?

Why BAU Medicine

1) BAU Medicine trains not only good physicians but also good "Physician-Scientists". BAU Medicine students are trained both to serve today's society and patients with superior quality as good medical doctors and to find solutions to tomorrow's health problems through their scientific research as good scientists.
BAU Medicine trains "Physician-Scientists" who possess the qualities and skills of scientific thinking, have internalized universal ethical values, embrace the principles of "medicine for humanity", "technology for humanity" and "physicians for humanity", know and apply scientific research methodology, have not only in-depth knowledge but also practical skills and creativity, and perceive medicine as a way of life beyond a profession.

2) In the BAU Medicine approach, the field of education and research is the network of knowledge and organization created in the world of medicine. In this approach, our science and medicine campus, consisting of our Basic Sciences and Advanced Medical Research Centers in Istanbul and Bahçeşehir University Private Göztepe Medical Park Research and Application Hospital, forms the core of the BAU Medicine knowledge and organization network. Beyond historical, geographical and political borders, the BAU Medicine network regards humanity's accumulated knowledge of science and medicine as its own collective mind and field of thought, and therefore the whole world as its campus.
BAU Medicine is a laboratory for turning dreams into reality for students and faculty members with the right mindset. Scientists and physicians who grow within BAU Medicine's location-independent network of knowledge and organization are supported in undertaking their own intellectual and educational journeys under their own responsibility and in ways that allow them to realize their dreams. In this way, whichever specialty and field of science a BAU Medicine student dreams of excelling in, they are given the chance to develop themselves at the best international institutions in that field.

3) With the energy to turn dreams into reality, BAU Medicine students benefit, within the BAU Global system, from the international study and work opportunities of Bahçeşehir University, which has campuses and academic centers on three continents and where one in every ten students is international. Throughout their education, students have the opportunity to receive training and conduct research at leading hospitals and laboratories in the USA, Europe and the Far East, such as Harvard Medical School, Yale University, the University of Geneva and the RIKEN Research Center in Tokyo.

4) BAU Medicine offers, for the first time in the field of medicine in Türkiye, an education program that trains "Physician-Scientists" and one that trains physicians within the same year. From the first year, students are placed in one of these two programs according to their achievements and goals. Students who want to become very good physicians and provide quality healthcare to patients in Türkiye or abroad continue their medical education in the Physician Training Program, while students who want to become good research-oriented physicians together with scientific mentors and graduate having published articles in international journals continue in the Physician-Scientist Training Program.

5) BAU Medicine provides in-faculty preparation opportunities for important accreditation and specialization exams valid worldwide and in Türkiye; students can receive the necessary support for exams such as USMLE, FLEX and TUS without leaving the campus.

6) At BAU Medicine, the scientists and physicians of the future are also trained as the intellectuals of the future. Our students are given the opportunity not only to receive vertical intellectual specialization and skills training in medicine, but also to develop a global mindset and devote time to different interests. The unusual variety of elective courses offered at the BAU Beşiktaş campus in the heart of Istanbul (history of science, philosophy, philosophy of science, communication, jazz, cinema, etc.) offers the future intellectual scientists growing up in BAU Medicine's very intensive working environment an intellectual world shaped by the cultural richness of Istanbul, capital of three empires, and the indescribable "blue" of the Bosphorus.

7) At BAU Medicine, the Basic Medical Sciences Building and the Advanced Medical Research and Application Center, located next to our faculty of medicine research and application hospital, which is equipped with state-of-the-art technology (digital cadaver dissection table, 3D surgical imaging system, instant sharing of laboratory data, etc.) and meets international standards (JCI certification), and integrated with it through the information system, keep basic scientists and clinical experts in constant interaction and bring students and faculty members together in the same environment; they will be open to our students from the first day of the academic year.

8) Medical teaching and being a faculty member have always been a "labor of love" in every era and every geography. The master-apprentice relationship, the most fundamental element of this education, is the weakest point of today's medical education. Training good "Physician-Scientists" is only possible with highly qualified faculty members. Striving to bring the best faculty members in our country into its national knowledge and organization system with scientific and social conditions befitting their distinction, BAU Medicine is the first and only faculty of medicine in Türkiye to rigorously apply the h-index criterion (an objective measure of a scientist's contribution to world science in their field) at the highest values in selecting its academic staff. In this way, at BAU Medicine our students learn both to be physicians and to be scientists through a "master-apprentice" relationship with role models who are themselves both good physicians and outstanding scientists. (72% of Nobel Prize winners or nominees were trained by Nobel laureates or nominees. The average h-index of the professors on our strong academic staff is 15.37. In terms of high h-index, BAU Medicine has achieved another first in Türkiye.)

9) BAU Medicine is a research-oriented medical school. It therefore offers high-level financial resources and professional opportunities to basic sciences faculty members, the driving force of scientific research. BAU Medicine's concept of success is based on building collaboration between students, faculty members in clinical fields and basic science experts.

10) BAU Medicine was born from the collaboration between Bahçeşehir University, a well-established institution with 27,000 students, and Medical Park Hospitals, also a well-established institution with the largest number of hospital beds (6,000 beds) and physicians in Türkiye. The two wings a medical school needs to fly are provided in the BAU Medicine system, because a faculty of medicine without a hospital, or one that has a hospital but lacks the support of a well-established university, cannot be a true medical school. From the first day, BAU Medicine students will gain hospital experience at Bahçeşehir University Private Göztepe Medical Park Research and Application Hospital, which has 100 outpatient clinic rooms, 12 operating rooms and 353 beds, holds JCI (Joint Commission International) accreditation and offers state-of-the-art technological facilities.

BAU Medicine believes that education in science and medicine can only take place with class sizes that allow for a master-apprentice relationship. Educating groups with similar goals and starting levels of knowledge together is also a requirement that increases quality. For these reasons, BAU Medicine offers separate classes for students who aim to become both medical doctors and scientists and for students who aim to become medical doctors.

The classes are named after physicians or medical scientists who have been awarded the BAU Medicine Medal of Science.

Our 2020 medical doctor class will be named after Prof. Dr. Joseph Martin, and our medical doctor-medical scientist class after Prof. Dr. Afksendiyos Kalangos.
Our 2021 medical doctor class will be named after Prof. Dr. Peter Black, and our medical doctor-medical scientist class after Prof. Dr. Yücel Kanpolat.
Our 2022 medical doctor class will be named after Prof. Charles D. Stiles, and our medical scientist class after Prof. Dr. İskender Sayek.

Our 2023 medical doctor class will be named after Prof. Dr. Canan Erzen, and our medical doctor-medical scientist class after Prof. Dr. Gürsel Ortuğ.

Our 2024 medical doctor class will be named after Prof. Dr. Ossama Al-Mefty, and our medical doctor-medical scientist class after Prof. Dr. Nu Viet Vu.

Our 2025 medical doctor class will be named after Prof. Dr. Michael L. J. Apuzzo, and our medical doctor-medical scientist class after Prof. Dr. Murat Günel.
Our 2025 medical doctor class will be named after Prof. Dr. Tülay Kansu, and our medical doctor-medical scientist class after Prof. Dr. Ennio Antonio Chiocca.

Our 2027 medical doctor class will be named after Prof. Dr. Evandro De Oliveira, and our medical doctor-medical scientist class after Prof. Dr. Kaya Kılıç.

Our 2028 medical doctor class will be named after Prof. Dr. Melih Bulut, and our medical doctor-medical scientist class after Prof. Dr. Emin Kansu.

Both our 2029 medical doctor class and our medical doctor-medical scientist class will be named after Prof. Dr. Theo Seiler.