Residency Training
Residency training at our faculty takes place in our departments and divisions under the Regulation on Specialty Training in Medicine and Dentistry and the principles adopted by our University Senate. On this page you will find what to do at each stage, from the day you are placed at our faculty to the day you receive your specialty certificate, the deadlines that apply and the documents you will need.
At a glance · Residency training at our faculty | |
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618research assistants in YÖK, SBA and YBU positions (2025) | 9departments with national accreditation of residency training, plus 2 programmes with international accreditation |
Sources: Faculty Status Report 2024-2025 and Unit Internal Evaluation Report 2025. For our accredited programmes, see the Accredited Departments page. | |
Residency training in four steps
Your training moves through four stages. Below you will find what to do at each stage and the pages and documents to use.
1 Placement and starting work · First 45 days After ÖSYM announces the placement results, you apply to our faculty with the required documents within 10 working days. Your appointment and start of work are completed within 45 days. Application steps · Appointment petition (DOCX) · Application documents (DOCX) |
2 Training and assessment · Throughout your training Your training follows the core curriculum of your specialty: you complete the compulsory rotations and have the competencies you gain recorded in your logbook. Your unit training supervisor (the head of department, or the head of division for subspecialties) checks your logbook every six months and writes an assessment for each six-month period. Core curricula · Rotations · Logbooks · UEYS |
3 Residency thesis · Starts in the first half of training Your thesis topic and supervisor are set in the first half of your training. Under our faculty guideline you obtain ethics committee approval before starting the thesis. You submit the thesis to your unit training supervisor no later than three months before the end of your training; the jury reviews it within one month and holds your oral defence. Residency Thesis Forms · Thesis template (DOCX) · Clinical Research Ethics Committee |
4 Exit examination and registration · At the end of training You sit the exit examination once your thesis is accepted, your training period and rotations are complete and the core curriculum part of your logbook is approved. The examination is held within 30 working days of the jury being appointed. If you pass, the result is sent to the Ministry of Health within 15 days, and the Ministry issues and registers your specialty certificate. |
Frequently used
The Ministry of Health system for your rotation, assessment and thesis records | Word template prepared under the guideline · DOCX · 773 KB |
Core curriculum of your specialty Curricula published by the Medical Specialty Board for each specialty | Rotations and their durations by specialty (TUK Decision No. 82) |
Petition to the Dean's Office for TUS and YDUS placements · DOCX · 14 KB | Current text of the regulation Consolidated text in the official Legislation Information System |
Deadlines at a glance
Step · legal basis | Time limit |
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Applying to our faculty after the placement results are announced Faculty Implementation Principles art. 3; Regulation art. 13/6 | 10 working days |
Late application with a documented excuse (by decision of the Faculty Executive Board) Faculty Implementation Principles art. 4 | 3 more working days |
Completion of appointment and start of work Regulation art. 13/6; Faculty Implementation Principles art. 5 | 45 days |
Logbook check and assessment by the unit training supervisor Regulation art. 17/2-c, ç | every 6 months |
Review of the thesis work by the supervisor Regulation art. 17/2-d | every 3 months |
Setting the thesis topic and supervisor Regulation art. 19/2 | first half of training |
Submitting the thesis to the unit training supervisor Regulation art. 19/4 | at least 3 months before training ends |
Jury review of the thesis and oral defence Regulation art. 19/5 | within 1 month |
Appointing the exit examination jury once you qualify Regulation art. 20/1 | 15 working days |
Holding the exit examination (from the jury appointment) Regulation art. 20/1 | within 30 working days |
Sending the result to the Ministry for registration Regulation art. 22/1 | within 15 days |
This table is for information only; the current texts of the regulation and the Faculty Implementation Principles are binding.
Residency Thesis Forms
The thesis writing guideline, thesis templates for residents and subspecialty residents, the YÖK National Thesis Center submission guide and a pre-submission checklist, with notes on which document to use at each stage of your thesis.
View the thesis documents
Questions
Your unit training supervisor is your first point of contact for your training programme, rotations, logbook and thesis. For application and appointment matters, contact our Dean's Office.
Documents from previous years are in the Residency Training Archive section.