Residency Thesis Forms
This page brings together the guideline, templates and guides you need to plan, write and submit your residency thesis. Download the documents just below; further down you will see which document to use at each stage and the key rules of the guideline.
Document (in Turkish) · date, file type and size |
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Guideline |
Guideline on Writing and Printing Residency and Subspecialty Theses · Senate: 17.07.2007, 2007/46 · PDF · 4.1 MB Official text; scanned document, 17 pages. |
Searchable text version of the guideline · PDF · 79 KB Text dated 6 June 2007 (19 pages), added so that you can search it. Its legal basis and article numbers differ from the Senate-approved text: the format and content rules carry the next article number there. The Senate-approved text is the official version. |
Templates (Word) |
Residency thesis template · DOCX · 773 KB Covers, table of contents, abstract pages, chapters, reference list and index samples are set up as the guideline requires, with guidance notes. |
Subspecialty thesis template · DOCX · 773 KB The cover carries the name of the subspecialty unit and the words "Yan Dal Uzmanlık Tezi" (subspecialty thesis). |
Submission to the National Thesis Center |
YÖK National Thesis Center submission guide (V2) · PDF · 1.3 MB The YÖK guideline on collecting, organizing and publishing graduate theses electronically, with a sample Thesis Data Entry Form; 5 pages. |
National Thesis Center submission checklist · DOCX · 32 KB For your own check before submission; it is not an official form and is not handed in. |
The templates and checklist are aids prepared under the rules of the guideline; if you notice any difference, the Senate-approved guideline prevails. Article numbers cited in these aids refer to the text version of the guideline.
Your thesis in four steps
1 Topic, supervisor and ethics approval · In the first half of training Your unit training supervisor sets an original thesis topic within the curriculum of your specialty and appoints a thesis supervisor in the first half of your training (Regulation art. 19/2). Under our guideline you obtain ethics committee approval before starting the thesis and state it in the Materials and Methods section (Guideline art. 27). Clinical Research Ethics Committee · Animal Experiments Local Ethics Committee |
2 Writing · Reviewed every 3 months Write your thesis to the format rules of the guideline; the Word templates already contain the page layout, fonts, heading styles and page numbering. Your thesis supervisor reviews your work every three months (Regulation art. 17/2-d). Residency thesis template · Subspecialty template · Guideline |
3 Submission and defence · At least 3 months before training ends Submit your thesis to your unit training supervisor for the jury. The jury has at least three full and two substitute members; it reviews the thesis within one month and holds your oral defence. A thesis found insufficient is given six more months (Regulation art. 19/4-6). |
4 National Thesis Center · When the topic is set and after the defence Once your topic is set, you fill in the Thesis Data Entry Form at the National Thesis Center; after the defence you update it and prepare your thesis as a single PDF file. The faculty uploads the thesis to the system (YÖK Guideline art. 4). |
Key format rules of the guideline
Format rules · with the article number in the guideline |
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Paper and printing · A4 white paper of 70-100 g; laser-quality printing on one side only; good-quality white card cover and a single binding (art. 4-6). |
Font · Arial; 12 pt for the main text and 10 pt for footnotes (art. 7). |
Margins · Left 3.5 cm; top, bottom and right 2.5 cm; text justified (art. 8). |
Line spacing · 1.5 lines in the main text and between paragraphs; first-line indent 1.25 cm; single spacing in footnotes (art. 10). |
Page numbers · The cover, inner cover, acknowledgements and contents pages are not numbered; numbering starts at 5 on the abstract page, bottom right. Appendices are not numbered (art. 9). |
Cover · Title in 16 pt, other text in 14 pt; Mersin University emblem top left and Faculty of Medicine emblem top right (3 cm); a single supervisor name (art. 20). |
Abstracts · Each fits on one page, without subheadings such as Aim, Method or Result; up to 5 keywords in alphabetical order, consistent with MeSH (art. 24). |
Chapters · Introduction and Aim, General Information, Materials and Methods, Results, Discussion, Conclusions and Recommendations; then References, indexes and Appendices. Each chapter starts on a new page (art. 10, art. 19). |
General Information · No more than 40% of the thesis text (art. 26). |
References · Numbered in order of citation and shown as superscripts; all authors up to six, otherwise the first three followed by "et al." or "ve ark." (art. 14, art. 31). |
Patient privacy · No patient names or identifying details; identities are hidden in photographs, and unmasked photographs need the written consent of the person (art. 12, art. 18). |
Article numbers refer to the Senate-approved text.
Submitting to the National Thesis Center
Fill in the Thesis Data Entry Form at tez.yok.gov.tr and keep the reference number the system gives you.
Do not use italics, tables, figures, charts, formulas, subscripts or superscripts, Greek letters or non-standard characters in the title and abstract fields.
Each of the two abstracts, one of them in Turkish, must not exceed 250 words; our faculty limit of one page also applies.
Prepare the full text as a single unencrypted, uncompressed PDF identical to the approved printed thesis. Put separate attachments such as images, audio or software into a single RAR file named with the reference number.
Mask or remove personal data and wet signatures in line with Personal Data Protection Law No. 6698.
The faculty uploads the electronic copy to the Thesis Automation System within three months of receiving it.
Source: YÖK Guideline on Collecting, Organizing and Publishing Graduate Theses Electronically, art. 4.
Related links | |
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Clinical Research Ethics Committee Ethics application for your thesis | Thesis data entry and thesis search |
Publications and theses of our university | Medical Subject Headings for your keywords |
Publication and research resources PubMed and University Library links | Turkish Language Association dictionaries The guideline refers you to the TDK dictionary and spelling guide (art. 12) |
Preparing a writing guide to standardize residency theses is one of the duties of our Publication and Documentation Board (Board Guideline, art. 11/d).