Nutrition and Dietetics

My name is Melikenur Türkol, a senior student at Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University, Department of Nutrition and Dietetics. I am a class representative and the head of the Nutrition and Dietetics Community. Our department was established to train experts in the field of nutrition and diet, to plan specific diets for diseases, and to calculate the nutritional requirements of different age groups. In addition to basic courses such as principles of nutrition and nutritional chemistry in the 1st and 2nd grade, we take vocational courses such as diet therapy in diseases and mother-child nutrition in the 3rd grade. In the last year, we have an internship-oriented process. We have a kitchen where we do the applications of our courses such as nutrition principles, food preparation and cooking techniques, and a laboratory where we make anthropometric measurements with the applications of our courses such as general microbiology, food microbiology, and food chemistry. If you successfully complete the basic and compulsory courses in the 4th grade, you get internships in hospitals, FHCs (Family Health Center), institutions and organizations where mass nutrition is provided. At the same time, we can graduate when we successfully complete the graduation study, which covers both semesters of the last year. We can work in hospitals, healthy life centers, sports and beauty centers, nutrition and diet consultancy centers, institutions and organizations where mass nutrition is provided. In addition, we can stay at the university as academicians. Since I was little, it has been my dream to wear a white coat and work in the healthcare field. Considering my personal characteristics, interests and skills, I decided that the most suitable part for me was nutrition and dietetics. I chose this university because it is a university that constantly renews itself, has good opportunities and is open to development, and I think it will educate me well academically and socially. After graduation I want to continue my education with a master's degree and then a doctorate. My goal is to advance academically and raise well-educated students. I want to do laboratory studies and serve science. My suggestion to candidates who will choose our university and department is to improve themselves in all aspects. For example, I have been class representative for 4 years and president for 3 years. I think I have improved myself both academically and socially in this process. At the same time, I am working as a scholarship student in the TÜBİTAK (Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey) project of one of our professors in my last year. Scientifically, I am progressing in line with my own goal. I wish success in the exams to friends who will choose Tekirdağ Namık Kemal University Department of Nutrition and Dietetics. We will be happy to see you with us.