Rolling admission · Istanbul · Delivered in English
Follow how a university intensive care unit sets ventilation, supports the circulation, manages sedation and reviews every patient each day as a team, with no patient contact, as the unit's caseload allows 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.
Intensive care is organised around repeated review, not single decisions. On the daily round each patient is presented in a fixed order, usually system by system, and the team asks the same questions: what has changed since yesterday, which support can be reduced and what would have to happen for the patient to leave the unit. The plan that follows is written as goals for the day. Doctors, nurses and the other professionals who attend the review each contribute, and the referring surgical or medical team is brought into the discussion when the plan touches the underlying disease.
Ventilation and circulation dominate much of that discussion. For patients with injured lungs, teams generally aim for protective settings that limit the volume and pressure delivered with each breath, and they test readiness to breathe without support at regular intervals. In shock, the first question is the cause, because the balance between fluids, vasoactive medicines and treatment of the source differs from one cause to another. Sedation is commonly kept as light as the patient's condition allows, since deeper sedation tends to lengthen ventilation. Observers hear how these general principles are adapted to one patient at a time.
Some of the most important decisions are not technical. Conversations with families, the limits of treatment and the timing of discharge to the ward are part of every unit's work, and an observer may be asked to step out while they take place. How a unit is staffed, who leads it and how it shares responsibility with the referring teams differ between hospitals and health systems; seeing one model closely is often what visiting physicians value most. An observer who attends the round through a full week sees how a plan made in the morning is tested by the evening.
This page covers the intensive care unit within the anaesthesiology department. The parent anaesthesiology page spans pre-operative assessment, theatre and the pain service; the neonatology page covers the neonatal unit within paediatrics; intensive care nursing practice is described on the nursing observership page.
Graduate physicians and trainees in anaesthesiology, internal medicine, emergency medicine or surgery who want to see how an intensive care unit organises its day; clinical-year students are eligible and should expect a demanding setting in which access is restricted at times.
Anaesthesiologists with a specialist qualification who state intensive care as their interest within the anaesthesiology department; the department decides allocation, and the unit is followed alongside its theatre and pain 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 Critical Care as your focus in your objectives; ATDERA reviews the file and prepares it for the Anaesthesiology 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.
