Training Centers for Head

Gazi University Medical Faculty

Ankara, Turkey

Dept. Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
Fellowship Director: Reha Yavuzer
Short time resident visit
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Resident and scientific fellowship
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Gazi University Medical Faculty and its main hospital Gazi Hospital is a very established medical health care system. The hospital provides all surgical and medical specialities to her patients including a well equiped adult and and a seperate pediatric emergency unit which is a Level I trauma center. There is a newly renovated 18 operating room centeral operating suit as well as Intensive Care Unitts for seperate sections such as neurosurgery, anaesthesiology, general surgery, other surgical specialities as needed in addition to medical and pediatric intensive care units. Gazi Hospital welcomes the new millennium with a capacity of 1150 beds and 857 academic staff.

The Department of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery at Gazi University offers the complete medical and surgical health care spectrum of plastic reconstructive and aesthetic surgery. The department has two subsections which are Cranio-maxillofacial surgery and Hand and microsurgery. The department has two operating rooms an outpatient surgical unit, and two orthodontic dental treatment units. There is 26 beds inpatient unit, that is 24 hours covered by plastic surgery residents. The department accepts a 24-hour plastic and reconstructive surgery emergency service including both adult and pediatric patients through the well established emergency center of the Gazi Hospital. Currently the department has 9 staff members out of eight being plastic surgeons and the remainin one being orthodondist. A total of 12 residents are under training, two at each academic grade of a total of 6 years residency training.

Patient Care
The specific areas of our surgical and clinical expertise in the Cranio-maxillofacial surgery section include:

  • Facial Trauma
    Acute and secondary correction of posttraumatic deformities
  • Cleft Lip and Palate 
    Including presurgical orthodontic preparations to secondary corrections of facial appearance and speech problems.
  • Craniofacial Surgery 
    Craniosynostosis (inconjuction with Neurosurgery Department), rare craniofacial deformities, secondary craniofacial corrections following trauma, tumor resection, radiation etc.
  • Orthognathic Surgery 
    Maxillofacial osteotomies, distraction osteogenesis
  • Tumor Surgery 
    Head and neck tumor resections including neck dissections when necessary, reconstruction with local, distant or free flap suregry
  • Aesthetic Surgery 
    The entire scope of aesthetic surgery including rhinoplasty, prominent ear, blepharoplasty, facelift, browlift, facial implants

Research 
Besides a significant patient care which is about 5000 operations per year the department is working on various basic science research studies through the well equiped animal research laboratuary of the Gazi University (GUDAM). The research facility provides a wide range of instruments and technical support for a diverse efficient basic science research. The main focuses of research for the department are: Craniofacial surgery, bone healing and regeneration, peripheral nevre healing and microsurgery. The department produces a significant number of clinical and basic science research that we share through national, international meetings and journals.

Summary
This short trip in Gazi University Medicine Faculty Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery is just a glance of the continous academic journey that we are in. This journey is full of learning experiences, excitement, working hard with other surgical disciplines, getting more proficient with surgical skills, respect, and fun and we are willing to have national and international candidates to join us through this journey. 

For further information contact:
Assoc. Prof. Reha Yavuzer MD.
Gazi University Medical Faculty
Department of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery
Gazi Hospital 14th Floor 
Besevler Ankara 06500 Turkey 
Phone: +90 312 202 6418 or +90 312 202 6409
Fax: +90 312 223 0528
Internet: www.med.gazi.edu.tr/english 
E-Mail: ryavuzer@gazi.edu.tr

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