BEING IN THE TRANSITION PERIOD IN MEDICAL EDUCATION: TURKEY EXPERIENCE

Abstract

There are 47 medical schools in Turkey, 39 of which currently have undergraduate medical education. All these schools run their own programs independently. According to the Undergraduate Medical Education Report of the Turkish Medical Association (1), 23 out of 39 schools named their educational system as “integrated”, 9 as “classical", 5 as “integrated + active” and 2 schools as “active”.

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