A different training model for adolescent medicine: a PhD program in Turkey, where adolescent medicine is not currently a sub-specialty at this stage
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Sinem Akgül
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Nuray Kanbur
Abstract
Adolescent medicine is currently not a certified subspecialty by the Ministry of Health in Turkey. Until recently, no subspecialty education was available for pediatricians interested in pursuing a career in this field. To compensate for the lack of training opportunities in the field, to meet the needs of adolescents and to increase research and strengthen scientific knowledge in the area of adolescent medicine, a doctoral program was established in 2004 by the Division of Adolescent Medicine under the Institute of Child Health at Hacettepe University in Ankara. This paper discusses the opportunities provided by the program, describing the pros and cons of such a course and what the program aims to achieve. This unique program provides pediatricians with extended postgraduate, subspecialty education in adolescent health care. We believe that the adolescent medicine PhD program at Hacettepe University could be a model for educating health care professionals in this field in other countries where there are not established fellowship programs.
Acknowledgments
The authors gratefully thank Dr. Tezer Kutluk and Dr. Gülsev Kale for their great contribution both academically and administratively to the establishment of the Adolescent Medicine Doctorate Program under the Child Health Institute of Hacettepe University and certification of the program by the Council of Higher Education of Turkey.
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- Frontmatter
- Editorials
- Adolescent health and medicine: a global perspective on training adolescent health professionals
- Adolescent medicine and health: a good investment
- Reviews
- The status of adolescent medicine: building a global adolescent workforce
- Accreditation of Adolescent Medicine as a pediatric sub-specialty: the Canadian experience and lessons learned
- Adolescent and young adult medicine in Australia and New Zealand: towards specialist accreditation
- The foundations of interdisciplinary fellowship training in adolescent medicine in the United States
- A different training model for adolescent medicine: a PhD program in Turkey, where adolescent medicine is not currently a sub-specialty at this stage
- LEAH interdisciplinary training program
- The globalization of training in adolescent health and medicine: one size does not fit all
- Opportunities and challenges in adolescent health training abroad: trainees’ experience and perspective
- Training international medical graduate clinical fellows: the challenges and opportunities for adolescent medicine programs
- Adolescent health in South America
- Adolescent health care education and training: insights from Israel
- Adolescent health in Asia: insights from Singapore
- Adolescent health in Asia: insights from Thailand
- Adolescent health in Asia: insights from India
- Adolescent health in the Caribbean region: insights from the Jamaican experience
- The health of Swiss adolescents and its implications for training of health professionals in Switzerland
- The role of Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine in training of health professionals
