Baskent University: A World Class University From A Transplantation Legend

By Prof. Dr. Mehmet Haberal, Founder & Founder President
Baskent University: A World Class University From A Transplantation Legend
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Haberal,Founder & Founder President

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Haberal

Founder & Founder President

Bakent University, a non-profit foundation university, was founded in 1993 by Prof. Dr. Mehmet Haberal, who had written his name in the history of organ transplantation. Prof. Dr. Mehmet Haberal, the vanguard of many fields, has many firsts that the World acclaims in his timeline of professional life. Among national and international awards, Prof. Haberal received the Spanish Order of the Civil Merit of the Kingdom of Spain on February 20, 2020, and the World Health Organization hsan Doramaci Family Health Award on May 27, 2022 and the 2022 Tanner-Vandeput-Boswick Burn Prize which is accepted as the Nobel Prize of Burn Studies.

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Haberal founded Bakent University with grand mastery of his vision to educate youth standing bound to Atatürk's principles, embracing science as their guide, and having a consciousness toward global problems. Bakent University aims to raise analytical, innovative, and creative minds as self-evident truths and seek science, sharing it objectively for the benefit of humanity and the World, promoting the develop-ment of technological, socio-economic, and cul-tural levels by conducting research and spreading science.

As the first foundation university teaching and serving health care simultaneously in Turkey, Bakent is the most significant health care institution after the Ministry of Health of Turkey, with six full-fledged Research Hospitals with dentistry clinics, 16 Dialysis Centers, nine outpatient clin-ics, a Geriatric and Psychosocial Rehabilitation Center, as well as a Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Center throughout Turkey.

Bakent is the first University in Turkey with the International Standardization Organization (ISO) certification promoting a student-centered education system along with a global perspective. Bakent University is differentiated from other institutions by its capacity to design programs, curricula, and services according to the changing global demands with the motto of "Sourcing and Spreading Science by working seven days a week, 24 hours a day".

Contributing To Turkey's Educational & Cultural Advancement
Today, Bakent University has 12 Faculties, a State Conservatory, eight Institutes, seven Vocational Schools, a Foreign Language School, 22 Research Centres, 1669 Academic staff, 8300
Administrative Staff (58 percent Female & 42 percent Male), and around 17, 000 students. Nationally and internationally, Bakent University is at the forefront of research and quality teaching, carried on by its highly qualified academic staff and disseminating research results. Re-search, experimental production, and societal contribution have always been the priorities.

The faculty of Medicine was established as the first foundation Medical Faculty in Turkey with high-quality standards with an academic-student ratio of 1:1 since its foundation with an opportunity of having an English education. The education model of the Faculty of Medicine has become a trademark of the "Bakent Model of Medical Education." Bakent Model was implemented in Kazakhstan with considerable success and demanded from other Turkic Countries.

Besides Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy, Bakent has Bachelor's Degree programs in Nursing, Physio-therapy and Rehabilitation, Social Work, Sport Sciences, Nutrition and Dietetics, Audiology, Healthcare Administration, Psychology, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Biomedical Engineering. Training qualified assistant technical personnel has always been the core principle of Bakent University.

"University aims to raise analytical, innovative, and creative minds as self-evident truths and seek science, sharing it objectively for the benefit of humanity and the World"

In order to fulfill the need of accomplished assistant personnel, Bakent Vocational Schools has multiple programs in health care such as First Aid and Emergency Medicine, Tech-nician education in Pathology, Dialysis, Operation Room Services, Medical Imaging, and Anesthesia. Bakent University also offers post-graduate programs in all fields. A total of 144 master's and 40 Ph.D. pro-grams, of which 35 of the former and 19 of the latter are for the healthcare servers.

Multiple national and international institutions awarded the quality of the medical education and health care services of Bakent. The qualification journey started with the International Certification Network Certificate on Quality Management Systems (ISO 9001) and continued with the accreditation of Medical Education of Bakent by the National Medical Education Federation (UTEAK). The European Union also recognized the internationalization of Bakent by giving the privilege of providing the Diploma Supplement Label, which enables the equivalency of Bakent University globally.

Besides, the Stress Management Research and Applications Unit jointly formed up with Harvard
University, and the European Society of Gynecological Oncology accreditation proves the supremacy of the services of Bakent University furnished. As an influencer Bakent marked its name in the medical field by focusing on technological developments. Last but not least the usage of MRLinac has been started at Bakent Ankara Hospital which is the latest technology of Oncological Treatments and hap-pen to be used in just 19 countries all over the World. Bakent not only focuses on health sciences but also offers multiple Social Sciences and Art programs.

International Relations and Political Science, Business Administration, Law, Architecture, Cartoon and Animation, Gastronomy and Culinary Arts, Visual Communication and Design, State Conservatory, Radio, Television, and Cinema, can be given as an example. Regarding the high demand of international students, Bakent University adds 100 percent English sections to the existing programs. As of 2022, Bakent provides 100 percent English programs in Medicine, Dentistry, Nursing, Business Administration, Economics, International Relations, and Political Sciences, Molecular Biology and Genetics, Psychology, Sociology, Computer Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Electric and Electronics, Civil and Mechanical Engineering. Every academic year Bakent has a student occupancy rate of 100 percent and welcomes five thousand freshmen.
"As an International University, Bakent has over 200 agreements with 30 countries. The students and academic staff are having mobilities in the frame of these agreements. Moving ahead, Bakent University envisions becoming an apex in every area of advanced health practices as a benchmark with its high-quality education at international standards", Prof. Haberal concludes.

Prof. Dr. Mehmet Haberal, Founder & Founder President,President of the Executive Supreme Board,Chair Division of Transplantation,Immediate Past President of the Transplantation Society
Prof. Dr. Mehmet Haberal, MD, FACS (Hon), FICS (Hon), FASA (Hon), FIMSA (Hon), Hon FRCS (Glasg), is a world-renowned transplant and general surgeon. In 1975, Mehmet Haberal per-formed the first living-related kidney transplant in Turkey. Alongside his active career in organ transplantation and burn treatment, he was an early participant in the move to create private non-profit higher education institutions in Turkey by establishing Bakent University. He has dedicated the past 30 years to ensuring that Bakent University provides the highest standard of education and healthcare services on a national and international scale.
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