Faculty of Health Sciences

Audiology

Message from Head of the Department

Istinye University Faculty of Health Sciences Audiology Department set out with its first students in the 2021-2022 academic year and made a fresh and dynamic start. Our department aims to train audiologists who are competent, knowledgeable, and equipped in the field with its experienced and expert academic staff and internship opportunities in “Liv Hospital”, “Medical Park” and “VM Medical Park” hospitals.

Graduates of the Audiology Department are employed in Audiology Clinics of public, private, or university hospitals. In order for cochlear implant surgeries to be performed in hospitals, the audiologist is a compulsory professional together with the doctor. In addition, there are job opportunities in special education and rehabilitation centers for the hearing impaired. In this field, too, audiologists are the professions that must be compulsory together with the teachers of the hearing impaired. In the private sector, they can work in the position of responsible manager in hearing aid companies and also in cochlear implant companies that serve hospitals from outside. They can open their own private audiology centers. Graduates who want to pursue an academic career can pursue an academic career by continuing their postgraduate education at universities in Turkey and abroad.

The audiologists be graduated will be individuals who
have professional ethics and autonomy,
knowledgeable in the fields of diagnostic and rehabilitative audiology,
gain professional practice skills and have the infrastructure to perform their profession.