The candidates who fail the proficiency examination will be required to complete a one-year preparatory class in English and repeat the proficiency examination. Candidates who fail the English proficiency examination and the repeat proficiency examination for the second time will be dropped from the program. They may apply to SYM for transfer to a Turkish medium faculty. Special courses in basic Turkish are set up for foreign students. The academic year generally starts in the second week of September and is normally of 36 weeks duration.
Medical education is governed by an integrated teaching approach.
In this system the medical student is first provided with the knovvledge of the simplest and smallest functional as well as structural units and then with that of more complex functional and structural systems of the human body. All lectures and laboratory work are well coordinated and correlated. Except for anatomic dissections all laboratory studies are performed in multidisciplinary laboratories instead of isolated departmental laboratories to facilitate the integration and coordination. Students perform all experiments ndependently. Phases IV and V comprise the clinical clerkship periods during vvhich the students work for the department to which they are attached under the supervision of the teaching staff on a full-time basis.