The First and Emergency Aid Technicians Program that was opened within İzmir Tınaztepe University Vocational School of Healthcare Services is a 2-year associate degree program initiated to this end. The goal of the program is to raise quality healthcare technicians who are competent enough to identify and solve health problems as part of pre-hospital emergency healthcare services, to provide patients and the injured with basic and advanced life support, to identify any system trauma and administer the appropriate emergency approach, to make sure that patients or the injured are safely transported to hospital by ambulance following their first intervention.

İzmir Tınaztepe University is a student-oriented “health-themed” university. The department offers its students hands-on training and research opportunities at the four hospitals of Tınaztepe Health Group that admit high number of patients. The First and Emergency Aid Technicians Program aims at raising professionally competent technicians ready for professional life together with its team of knowledgeable trainers and practitioners and in a teaching setting where students can present their scientific projects.