A decision was taken by the Senate of Ondokuz Mayıs University (OMU) to establish the Department of Emergency Medicine within the Faculty of Medicine in the 1996-1997 academic year and it was notified to the Council of Higher Education (YÖK). The Higher Education Council also approved the establishment of the Department of First and Emergency Aid within our university in 1997. OMU Faculty of Medicine First and Emergency Aid Department founded by Assist. Assoc. Dr. Levent Altıntop. Research assistants first came to OMU Faculty of Medicine, Department of First and Emergency Aid in 1998 and started working. The Department of Emergency Medicine has trained and graduated 77 research assistants as Emergency Medicine Specialists since its establishment until today. The Department of Emergency Medicine, with its 6 faculty members and 29 research assistants, continues education and training while caring for patients.
Prof. Dr. Ahmet BAYDIN has been carried out the Head of the Department of Emergency Medicine since 2018.According to 2022 data of OMU Health Application and Research Center, a total of 1,469,557 patients applied to the emergency department. Currently, an average of around 450-500 patients apply to the emergency department and receive service daily.
The Department of Emergency Medicine provides services to pediatric trauma cases as well as adult patients. Triage is performed on patients who apply to the emergency department on an outpatient basis or by ambulance, and according to the triage classification, these patients receive care services in the green, yellow and red areas. In the green area, outpatient health services are provided to patients with relatively mild clinical conditions, while in the yellow area, services are provided to patients who require observation or hospitalization. In the red area, services are provided to patients whose clinical condition is severe, who require resuscitation and who require close follow-up. While patients are served with 5 monitor stretchers in the red area, patients are served with 16 stretchers in the yellow area, which is in an arena layout. There is also a 14-bed observation unit and a 5-bed secondary intensive care unit within the Emergency Department, where patients who need to be observed are hospitalized and monitored. There are two USGs, two x-ray machines and two Computed Tomographies in the emergency room. A magnetic resonance imaging unit and a KBNR (isolation unit) section will be added to the emergency department in the future time. All patients applying to the emergency department are greeted by paramedics at the entrance of the emergency department, and patients are taken to the appropriate section (green-yellow-red area) according to the urgency of their illness. Patients who require close monitoring and treatment (those with complaints such as heart disease, respiratory distress) are evaluated in the monitored area, while other patients who do not require close monitoring are evaluated in the yellow area.
The average waiting time of patients applying to the emergency department varies depending on the density of the emergency department and the clinical condition of the patient, but is below ten minutes on average. Multiple trauma patients, heart attack patients, stroke patients, patients whose heart and breathing have stopped or are still stopped are quickly taken to the resuscitation room and evaluated by the senior emergency medicine assistant under the supervision of the Emergency Medicine specialist, where necessary examinations and treatments are performed. If a condition requiring hospitalization is detected following the examination and treatment of the patient, consultation is requested from the appropriate department and the patient is admitted to the relevant department. Patients who require critical care and cannot be admitted to other services, especially toxicology patients, are hospitalized in the Emergency Observation Unit and Emergency Critical Care Unit, and their follow-up and treatment are carried out by Emergency Medicine specialists. Although the emergency department is an area that provides service 7 days a week and 24 hours a day, it also attaches importance to the training of future Emergency Medicine Specialists. For this reason, the necessary treatments and interventions for patients in accordance with the Emergency Medicine curriculum (TUKMOS Emergency Medicine v2.4) can be safely applied by Emergency Medicine specialty students under the supervision of Emergency Medicine Specialists. Educational activities in our department are carried out for Medical Specialization Students, Faculty of Medicine students, Faculty of Dentistry students and Vocational School of Health Services students.
Emergency Medicine is a field of expertise that requires knowledge and skills and requires the diagnosis and management of acute diseases and injuries that affect patients of all age groups. Emergency medicine practices continue until the patient is discharged from the emergency department or transferred to the care of another physician. With the establishment of Emergency Medicine Departments in our country, the approach to emergency patients, management of emergency patients and treatment plans have begun to be addressed more realistically at an academic level. In our department, specialist students are trained for basic purposes such as making the first diagnosis and treatment attempts of each patient, learning diagnosis and treatment methods (including radiology, simple surgical intervention) in emergency patients, and planning management in emergency mass events. In addition, it is also aimed for the emergency medicine specialists to be trained to be able to conduct academic studies on their subjects and to gain academic foresight that can see deficiencies and mistakes and make constructive suggestions. The development and evaluation of our specialist students are carried out using the digital education platform developed by our faculty members, and a system where student reports based on competencies are given is used. Education accreditation studies are continuing and application is planned in the first quarter of 2024. In accordance with the principle of continuous professional development, meetings are held under the leadership of our department to update and develop the professional knowledge and skills of emergency physicians working in Samsun and surrounding cities.Faculty Members
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Prof. Dr. Ahmet BAYDIN (Head of Department)
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Prof.Dr.Türker YARDAN
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Prof. Dr. Latif DURAN
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Prof. Dr. Celal KATI
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Prof.Dr.Hızır Ufuk AKDEMİR
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Dr. Lecturer Fatih ÇALIŞKAN
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Ondokuz Mayıs University Medical School Department of Emergency Medicine
55200 Atakum / Samsun
Tel: 0 362 312 19 19
Fax: 0 362 457 60 41