Recently, news have emerged about the graduate programs opened in Ankara Yıldırım Beyazıt University Institute of Public Health, Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine Department, which do not reflect the truth, may mislead the public, and talk about false information and practices to our citizens. In our department, there is no master's or doctorate program for cupping, acupuncture or leech applications.
Our University Institute has a Phytotherapy Doctorate Program, which is a graduate program in international education institutions such as Bircham International University, Cambridge International University, and Near East University.
In graduate programs of universities such as Oxford University, The University of Dublin, Université Paris Descartes, Leiden University, Utrect University, University College, The University of Mississippi, Sichuan University, Nord Universty, Utrect University etc. There is a Biotherapeutic Products Research and Development program included in the PhD programs of foreign universities.
If we look at the world examples again; In leading universities in Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine; The University of Arizona Center for Integrative Medicine, Cleveland Clinic Children's Center for Pediatric Integrative Medicine, University of Michigan Integrative Family Medicine, Osher Center for Integrative Medicine Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women's Hospital, Royal London Hospital for Integrated Medicine, Duke Integrative Medicine etc. .structures and applications.
At the undergraduate level, there is a traditional and complementary medicine education in the Faculties of Medicine in the USA, during the clinical period in the USA, during the entire education period, mainly pre-clinical in Canada, during the clinical period in Germany, and optional intern internship in Switzerland.
As can be seen; There are training, research, publication and application activities in the field of Traditional, Complementary and Integrative Medicine, which is located and operating in universities in Europe and the USA. The duty of universities is to reveal the truth and the better. In this context, as stated by some institutions and organizations, claiming that this field is unscientific is thought to be the product of ignorance or deliberate thought.
It is announced to the public with our respect.
