1st International Student Symposium hosted by Kırıkkale University Faculty of Medicine

Kırıkkale University, which successfully continues its project-based collaborations with many universities in different geographies of the world, continues its internationalization activities by including its students as well as the academic staff.

In line with this goal, the 1st International Student Symposium was organized by our Faculty of Medicine as an outcome of the Scientist Corridor project, which was implemented for the first time with semester 1 and 2 students within the scope of the Evidence-Based Medicine Practices course. 

Four partner universities, Gadjah Mada University (Indonesia), Avicenna Tajik State Medical University (Tajikistan), Putra Malaysia University (Malaysia), and Universum College (Kosovo), also contributed to the student symposium.

The participants of the Opening Session included our Rector Prof. Dr. Ersan Aslan, Vice Rectors Prof. Dr. Mehmet Başalan and Prof. Dr. Erol Yılmaz, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Prof. Dr. Dilek Keskin, Vice Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Prof. Dr. Atike Tekeli Kunt, Head of Medical Hospital Prof. Dr. Turgut Deniz, Head of International Office Assist. Prof. Dr. Zeynep Başer, Head of Press and Public Relations Office, Göksun Ünlü, as well as Rector of Gadjah Mada University Prof. Dr. Ova Emilia, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine Prof. Dr. Yodi Mahendradhata, faculty members and students from Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia, Vice Rector Prof. Dr. Muhabbatzoda Jiyonkhon Qurbon and International Relations Specialist Akbar Toshov from Avicenna Tajik State Medical University, and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Azmah Hanim Binti Mohamed Ariff from Putra Malaysia University.

After the Opening Session, the online symposium continued with the moderation of Prof. Dr. Yodi Mahendradhata, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, Gadjah Mada University, and the keynote speech of Prof. Dr. Ova Emilia, Rector of Gadjah Mada University, entitled "Evidence-Based Medicine in Indonesia and Cochrane: The Role of Indonesia". After the questions and comments, 18 students from Gadjah Mada University made poster presentations with 8 different speeches.

Then, Prof. Dr. Muhabbatzoda Jiyonkhon Qurbon, Vice Rector of Avicenna Tajik State Medical University, delivered his speech entitled "Research Competence of the Modern Student".  After the questions and answers, the first session of the symposium was completed.

In the second session, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Azmah Hanim Binti Mohamed Ariff from the Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Putra Malaysia gave a speech entitled "Advanced Biopolymer Based Physical Performance" and Prof. Dr. Recep Çalın, Director of the Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Kırıkkale University, gave a speech entitled "Production of Biomaterials". The first day of the symposium was completed after the presenters answered the questions and remarks of the participants.   

The second day of the symposium continued face-to-face and online. The morning session started with the opening speech of Prof. Dr. Dilek Keskin, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine, and it was followed by the keynote speech of Recep Aktur, Professor of Public Health, entitled "Earthquake Disaster Management". Prof. Dr. Recep Aktur gave information about the earthquake disaster in our country and the importance of the establishment of field hospitals. Then, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ali Zade Suhrob Gafforovoch, Head of the Scientist Training Unit from Avicenna Tajik State Medical University, shared current data on the benefits of artificial intelligence in the field of healthcare and its use in diagnosis and treatment with his speech entitled "Prospects and Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Medicine".

The morning session was completed with the panel speeches of the graduates. Dr. Gökçen Alagöz, a general practitioner, Ahmet Melih Erdoğan, resident in the Department of Neurosurgery, Enes Nusret Çelik, resident in the Department of Radiology, and Dr. Ahmet Yalçınkaya, a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Biochemistry, Uppsala University Faculty of Medicine participated in the panel discussion.

The symposium continued in the afternoon with poster presentations by 38 undergraduate students from our Faculty of Medicine. After the questions and answers of the participants, the International Student Symposium, which was organized for the first time this year with the contributions of our partner universities ended.