Series VI: Medical Sciences – SUPPLEMENT ... - Krongres

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Bulletin of the Transilvania University of Bra�ov • Vol. 2 (51) - 2009 • Series VI
Fig. no.1. Dr. Orhan Abdi Kurtaran
So, involvement of orthopaedics in
medical training began in 1905 with Dr.
Orhan Abdi. At the same year, he used ether
in the operations and contributed for
developing anaesthesia. With the foundation
of Medical Faculty in 1909 it was seen that
for the first time orthopaedics branch has
become semi private and the name of the
lesson was changed to “Orthopaedics and
Big Surgery Operations” [13]. During those
days there were three surgery clinics. The
third one’s name was “Surgery and
Orthopaedics” and the chairman of it was Dr.
Orhan Abdi. However, when he became as
the chairman of the second surgery clinic, the
name orthopaedics was removed [3].
Akif �akir �akar (1888-1961)
After graduating from Military
Medicine School in 1910, he underwent a
period of training in Gulhane Military
Practice Hospital, surgery clinic. At the
end of 1911 he was inducted as a surgeon
to Van Military Hospital. In 1912 he
worked as an assistant in Vienna
University with Prof. Eiselberg in surgery
clinic and with Dr. Breitner in emergency
service for a year. In the I. World War he
worked as a physician in Jerusalem, Syria
and Palestine. He was captured in
Damascus. In 1919 he returned to Istanbul,
in 1921 he graduated as a surgeon and
began to work with Dr. Mouchet who was
working with orthopaedics patients and
giving lectures on “Paediatric Surgery and
Orthopaedics”. He was appointed as an
interpreter of Dr. Mouchet by Dr. Akil
Muhtar Ozden, the Dean of that time. After
becoming an associate professor in 1923,
he began to give lectures between the years
1923-1925. In 1925, after Dr. Mouchet
changed to teach in “Surgery Operation
and Techniques” he became the head of
Paediatric Surgery and Orthopaedics
Department, which did not have a clinic
[6]. In 1927-1929, he worked in Hamburg
University surgery clinic with Dr. Sudeck
on bone and joint surgery. Seeing that fractures
treatment and orthopaedics was not
sufficient in Turkey, he showed effort to
establish a modern orthopaedics clinic
[13].
Fig.no.2. Akif �akir �akar