- Postgraduate education has two phases in Turkey. Before 1980, universities were administered according to the law 1750. According this law, even govermental universities, were more independent in their budget managements but there were no coordination between universities. Each university had its own rules for accepting students to both undergraduate and graduate education. Some universities had MSc, PhD programmes but some did not. In medical faculties, in our knowledge till 1980 only Hacettepe Medical Faculty had MSc and PhD programmes. Other universities had only medical specialist programmes. After 1981, a new Constitution was prepared and a new university law based on items 130 and 131 in that Constitution, "Higher Education Law 2547, YOK Kanunu", was prepared. According to 2547 YOK Kanunu undergraduate and graduate education was re-organised.
Turkish Biochemical Society (TBS) established in 1975 and after its establishment it became a member of FEBS (1978), IUBMB (1978), BCLF (1996), EFCC (FESCC, 1997), IFCC (1997). TBS had organised several workshops to contribute to the undergraduate and graduate education in biochemistry, molecular biology and clinical biochemistry. Four workshops on undergraduate and graduate education were organised together with the Educational Committee of IUBMB (in 1989, 1991, 1998 and 2000). Turkish Biochemical Society had organised 23 National Congresses with International Participation. TBS also had organised three BCLF meetings, three BBBD meetings, one FEBS Congress. A Worldlab Congress is going to be organised in 2014 in Istanbul. Thirty two (32) theoretical and practical workshops on different areas of biochemistry, molecular biology, statistics, and clinical biochemistry were also organised by TBS.
TBS also contributes to biochemistry, molecular biology and clinical biochemistry education via its journal "Turkish Journal of Biochemistry" (TrJBiochem) which has been published since 1976, on quarterly basis. Basic and clinical research, as well as reviews, are accepted for publication. It is indexed by SCI Expanded, Journal Citation Reports/Science Edition, Chemical Abstracts, Directory of Open Access Journals, Index Copernicus, Embase, Scopus, Ulakbim Turk Tip Dizini, Ulrich's Periodical Directory, EBSCO.
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