The department is responsible for the introduction course of medical informatics, which takes place in the freshman year cirruculum of the medical school. In this course, the future physicians are introduced the basic concepts of computing and the application of informatics in the field of medicine and the use of Internet and some statistical packages .  In the fourth year course called Biostatistics, the scientific foundations that explains how to do a research and how to evaluate the research results are presented. Besides, the department offers elective courses for the students of other departments, which take place under the Institute of Health, like Introduction to Computers and Microcomputer Operating Systems, Biostatistics I, Statistical Research Techniques in Health Sciences, and Computer Applications in Health. The laboratory sessions of these courses are held in a computer laboratory with 25 computers. 

Besides, the department offers the Medical Informatics MSc. program, which was initiated in 1993 and is the first program in Turkey in the field of Medical Informatics. Additionally, the Medical Informatics PhD. program has started in February 2006. The graduates of these programs are experts in the subfields of the structure of medical data, storage of and processing the medical data, and the technologies in health.

When established in 1989, the departmental academic staff also formed the computer center team, which built the software infrastructure and designed and implemented the hospital information system in use. Currently, the department provides statistical and information systems consultations throughout the university.