With the decision of Niğde University Senate dated 24.12.1997 and numbered 83, student recruitment to the Department of Health Programs, Medical Documentation and Secretarial Program started in the 1998-1999 academic year.The aim of the medical documentation and secretarial program is to train the healthcare personnel needed to compile, streamline and present the findings obtained from scientific research in various branches of medicine and health technology to researchers. In the first year of education in the medical documentation and secretarial program, courses such as anatomy, physiology, psychology, medical terminology, medical statistics are given. In the second year, vocational courses such as medical documentation, disease information and correspondence techniques are taught. Students do an internship for 30 working days. Graduates of the Medical Documentation and Secretarial Program receive the title of "Medical Documentary Technician". Medical documentation is basically a clerical job. People working in this field may work in tasks related to regularly storing the information produced by researchers and transmitting it to the relevant parties. Medical documentation technicians work in university hospitals, public hospitals, health centers, private hospitals and clinics. It started education with 21 students in the 1998-1999 academic year. We have 309 students studying in regular and evening education in the Fall Semester of the 2023-2024 academic year.