The doctorate program started providing education and training in 1967 in the Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation at the Institute of Health Sciences. Developments and advancements in cardiopulmonary rehabilitation took place as a separate program under the same department in 1997. Alums who complete this program could independently implement an investigation unique to the cardiopulmonary rehabilitation area, comment with a broader and deeper perspective of scientific events, and determine the necessary steps to achieve for accessing new methods and applications. They could move high-level skills acquired in education and research to their national and international clinical and academic works. Graduates in physiotherapy and rehabilitation get "doctorate" degrees. Alums are research assistants, physiotherapists, people working in other areas based on employees, and people providing education for the community. They adopt the principle of lifelong learning. Cardiopulmonary rehabilitation doctors of science graduates are people who can develop programs that create and implement competent and effective programs by determining the need for the subject related to protective purposes in healthy individuals and can develop public health.
