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Medical faculties are academic and scientific institutions that have an important role in the structuring and implementation of health services, and in training physicians in accordance with
the health needs of the society. At the same time, they are institutions that are affected by the health policies implemented in the country (medical education, student quota, R&D research
and university budgets, etc.). While the number of medical faculties in our country was 1 until1945, today the Higher Education Institution has announced 15,500 student staff for 122 medical
faculties, 5 of which are abroad, in the 2019-2020 academic year. Balıkesir University Faculty of Medicine was established in 2006 as the Faculty of Medicine of the Southern Marmara Region on the one hand and the Northern Aegean Region on the other. In the article, the factors that prepared the foundation of Balıkesir University Faculty of Medicine, the health policies of the period and its establishment are explained