Rolling admission · Istanbul · Delivered in English
Follow how a university plastic surgery department consults, selects and plans aesthetic cases, and how those operations are carried out and followed up, with no operative role, on the lists scheduled during your dates.
What you see depends on the department's clinical calendar during your placement; the list below describes the department's usual scope, not a guaranteed programme.
Aesthetic surgery is elective, so the decision carries more weight than the technique. The consultation begins with what the patient wants to change and why, and with what they expect the operation to do for them. The surgeon examines, records standard photographs and explains what surgery can and cannot alter, the likely scars, the recovery and the risks. Health, smoking, weight stability and current medicines are reviewed, and concerns that suggest a patient is unlikely to be helped by surgery are taken seriously, including by advising against an operation. Time to reflect, and often a second consultation, come before any date is set.
Planning follows anatomy, not fashion. The procedure is chosen from the examination findings, and when several procedures are requested together the team sets limits, because longer operations carry more risk. Before surgery the risk of venous thrombosis is assessed, the anaesthetic review is completed and consent is confirmed in the patient's own words. In a university department these aesthetic lists run under the same governance as reconstructive surgery: the same checklist, the same record keeping and the same morbidity and mortality meeting.
The result is judged over months. Early reviews look for bleeding, infection and wound problems; swelling settles and scars mature slowly, so a final assessment and any discussion of revision are usually deferred until the tissues have settled. When a patient is disappointed, the surgeon's first tasks are to listen, to compare the result with the pre-operative record and to be honest about what a further operation could achieve. An observer who follows a patient from the first consultation to a late review sees how these decisions connect.
This page covers aesthetic practice within the plastic surgery department: consultation, body contouring and facial procedures. Rhinoplasty has its own focus page, as do reconstructive microsurgery, oncoplastic breast surgery and hand surgery. Non-surgical treatments such as injectables, laser and peels are followed in the cosmetic dermatology placement, which has its own page.
Plastic surgery trainees and graduate physicians who want to see how a university department consults, selects and follows up aesthetic patients; clinical-year students are eligible and will see aesthetic and reconstructive practice side by side.
Plastic surgeons with a specialist qualification who state aesthetic practice as their interest within the plastic surgery department; the department decides allocation, and aesthetic lists are followed alongside its reconstructive, hand and clinic work.
Both routes are strictly observational: observers attend theatre and clinic without patient contact, do not scrub or assist, and are not assessed on any procedure.
| Clinical Observership | Clinical Fellowship | |
|---|---|---|
| Duration | 1, 2 or 4 weeks (extension possible on request) | 12 to 24 months, agreed with the host department |
| Who it is for | Medical students in clinical years and graduate physicians from outside Turkey | Recognised specialists and family physicians seeking advanced exposure beyond standard specialty training |
| Format | Full-time, strictly observational — outpatient clinics, operating theatre, ward rounds, case discussions | Extended observational attachment to one department: daily practice, service structure and specific techniques |
| Certificate | Certificate of attendance issued by the host hospital and signed by its Medical Director | Certificate on completion issued under the accreditation of the affiliated university school of medicine |
| Start | Rotations typically begin on a Monday; dates are agreed individually | Start date planned around the date you request and the department's capacity |
One online application for both routes. State Aesthetic Surgery as your focus in your objectives; ATDERA reviews the file and prepares it for the Plastic Surgery department, then replies with next steps, typically within two working days.
Already started? The application page picks up where you left off.
ATDERA Global Limited (Companies House No. 17173428, registered in England and Wales) coordinates this programme for a university teaching hospital in Istanbul. ATDERA is not a hospital and does not provide clinical care; admission decisions and certificates are the host hospital's.
One online application covers both routes and all twenty-one specialties — details, programme choice and documents in five short steps. ATDERA reviews the file and replies with next steps, typically within two working days.
