Dr. AIM E MOUCHET ve TIBBİYEDE FRANSIZ KÜLTÜREL EGEMENLİĞİNİN SONU

Anatomist and surgeon Aime Mouchet arrived in Istanbul as a conscript officer of the French occupation forces at the end of the First World War. He was subsequently appointed professor of pediatric surgery and orthopaedics at the Medical Faculty of the Istanbul University in 1922, and Professor of Anatomy in 1925. Professor Aime Mouchet was granted the privilege of instructing in French - the language which had dominated modern medical education in Turkey literally for a century. Professor Mouchet was instrumental in the introduction of the French curriculum into the Medical Faculty in the academic year 1924-1925, where a basic sciences certificate was a prerequisite for subscription. Aime Mouchet was also a founding member of the Turkish Institute of Anthropology, and the French editor of its bi-lingual (Turkish and French) journal launched in 1925. Dr. Aime Mouchet remained in Istanbul until the beginning of the Second World War, where he also served as the Chief of the French "Pasteur" hospital in the city. Professor Mouchet assisted in the definition of Turkish equivalents for the current Ottoman and French terms in anatomy. Dr.Mouchet's departure marked the decline of French medical culture in Turkey.