The University of Health Sciences is a state university in Turkey established in 2015. It is the country's only higher educational institution for health sciences. As of 2019, the rector of the university is Prof. Dr. Cevdet Erdöl.
History
The University of Health Sciences was established as a state university on 27 March 2015. The Haydarpaşa Campus of the Marmara University at Haydarpaşa neighborhood of Kadıköy in Istanbul was allocated to the SBÜ on 15 April 2015. The Haydarpaşa Campus of the university was named "Mekteb-i Tıbbiyye-i Şahane Külliyesi" to honor the original name of the building. In August 2016, "Gülhane Askeri Tıp Akademisi" in Etlik, Ankara was incorporated into the University of Health Sciences by lifting its military status. The university began its education in the 2016-17 academic year with 82 students in medicine.
Hamidiye Campus, Istanbul
The construction of the Haydarpaşa Campus building was ordered by Ottoman Sultan Abdul Hamid II in 1894. The building was designed by the architects French-Ottoman Alexander Vallaury and Italian Raimondo D'Aronco. The rectangular-plan building covers with a inner courtyard land. The opening of the School of Medicine, named Mekteb-i Tıbbiyye-i Şahane, took place by the sultan on his birth day on 6 November 1903. While the building hosted the Military Medicine School until 1909, it later served afor a civilian Medicine School. It had a botanic garden with medicinal plants. It featured faculties of medicine and pharmacy. The school had an underground tunnel connection to the military hospital across it. In 1933, with the reorganization of the higher education in Turkey after the Atatürk's Reforms, the Medicine School was closed. The building was allocated to the Haydarpaşa High School. Frpm 1983 on, the building was used by the Marmara University as a campus including also a Faculty of Medicine. All faculties, colleges and institutes situated at the Haydarpaşa Campus were prefixed "Hamidiye" by a presidential decree in June 2019 after Abdul Hamid II, the founder of the initial medical school.
Gülhane Campus, Ankara
In 1897, a protocol was signed with the German Empire to improve the medicine education in the Ottoman Empire. Prof. Robert Rieder of University of Bonn and Dr. Georg Deycke of the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf came to Istanbul in 1898. In addition to their works at the Imperial School of Medicine, they converted the building of the military junior high school inside Gülhane, the courtyard of Ottoman sultan's Topkapı Palace, into a modern healthcare facility. It was opened on 30 December 1898 and named "Gülhane Seririyat Hastanesi". Gülhane Hospital's first active presence took place in 1909 when its physicians, who were transferred to the newly established Faculty of Medicine, made out the majority of the academic staff. During World War I, the hospital undertook important duties in the successful delivery of health services to the Ottoman Army, and in the treatment of wounded soldiers brought from the Battle of Gallipoli. During the occupation of Istanbul from 1918 to 1923, Gülhane Hospital was transferred to Gümüşsuyu quarter of Beyoğlu, Istanbul, and continued to serve during the Turkish War of Independence. Following the end of the occupation of Istanbul, the hospital returned to its previous location. With the beginning of World War II, it was decided to move the hospital to Ankara. In 1941, it started as "Gülhane Askeri Tababet Okulu ve Hastanesi" in the buildings of the military hospital at Cebeci quarter of Çankata districy of Ankara. Iy played an important role in the establishment of Ankara University Medical School in 1945. Eleven of the fourteen professors and founding staff members originated from the Gulhane Military Medical School and Hospital. In 1947, it was renamed to "Gülhane Askeri Tıp Akademisi" , and colaborated with the Ankara University's Medical School until 1952. In 1952, the Academy moved from Cebeci to Bahçelievler, Ankara leaving its buildings to the university's Medical School. As the buildings became insuffient, it was decided in 1963 to build a modern hospital complex in Etlik neighborhood of Keçiören, Ankara. In 1971, the Academy moved into its new location. After the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt on 15 July, all of the 32 military hospitals, including the GATA, were transferred from the Ministry of National Defense to the Ministry of Healt in August the same year. The GATA was renamed "Gülhane Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi", and was incorporated into the SBÜ by a presidiential decree.
Academics
Hamidiye Campus
The academic units situated at the Hamidiye Campus in Haydarpaşa, Istanbul are:
