Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation is a healthcare discipline that aims to preserve, enhance, and improve individuals’ maximum mobility throughout their lifespan. Physiotherapists are healthcare professionals who carry out physical therapy and rehabilitation programs for patients diagnosed by specialist physicians and provide assessment and interventions to maintain and improve the quality of life for healthy individuals. Students aspiring to become physiotherapists need to complete a 4-year undergraduate education after taking basic medical and professional ethics courses, physiotherapy and rehabilitation courses, and engaging in clinical practices in various fields.
Our goal at Istanbul Gedik University is to educate physiotherapists who will work in university-public-private healthcare institutions, inpatient treatment centers, prosthetics-orthotics units, sports clubs, rehabilitation and education centers, and various other employment areas, equipped with up-to-date information, universal-level knowledge, skills, and competencies, and embracing the ethical values of the physiotherapy profession. Our aim is to train physiotherapists who prioritize the public interest, adopt the concept of health improvement, understand the value of research, possess lifelong learning and evidence-based application skills, have interdisciplinary working understanding, and are competent and well-equipped professionals capable of identifying, preventing, treating movement and functional disorders, and enhancing health-related quality of life.
We take pride in assisting our valuable students on the path to becoming physiotherapists and excitedly walk this journey with them during their undergraduate years.
Asst. Prof. Amine ATAÇ
Head of the Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation