The General Surgery Department continues its education, scientific activites and patient care with its scholars and experienced staff.
4 lecturers consisting of 2 professors, 1 associate professor and 1 assistant professor, in addition to 15 general surgery specialists (1 associate professor and 14 attending specialists) and 12 general surgery residents (assistant) are educated in our clinic. Competent physicians offer healthcare to patients in our surgical oncology, surgical endocrinology, colon and rectal surgery, obesity surgery, liver, gall bladder, bile ducts and pancreas surgery branch outpatient clinics, in addition to 2 general surgery and 2 breast diseases and surgery outpatient clinics.
Over 50,000 patients are examined, diagnosed, treated and monitored in our outpatient clinics every year.
4500 inpatients are treated in our clinic every year.
Our experienced transplantation staff perform kidney transplants in our 5-bed organ transplant unit that was established in 2010.
Over 2500 elective surgeries, over 600 emergency and trauma surgeries, and over 750 local surgeries are performed in General Surgery operating theatres using modern technological devices. General Surgery operations are performed with both open and minimally invasive methods.
On average, 1500 patients undergo colonoscopy, 1100 patients undergo upper gastrointestinal system endoscopy and 70 patients undergo PEG procedures every year in the Surgical Endoscopy unit that was established in 2010.
Medical Pathology Department, Radiology Department, Nuclear Medicine Department and Oncology Department discuss the most appropiate treatment options for an average of 1000 patients in weekly multi-disciplinary council meetings. In our annual training program, we include bed-side patient visit practices, morbidity-mortality meetings, seminars, algorithm meetings, literature hours, theoretical scientific study and thesis preparation sessions in order to ensure continuous education during and after specialty education.