The attitudes of medical students to autopsy

• Published in: Forensic science international Vol. 113; no. 1; pp. 303 - 308
• Main Authors: İnanıcı, M.A., Sözen, M.Ş., Alkan, N., Arıcan, N., Aksoy, M.E.
• Format: Journal Article Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: Kidlington Elsevier Ireland Ltd 11-09-2000; Elsevier; Elsevier Limited
• Subjects: Adult; Attitude; Attitude of Health Personnel; Attitudes; Autopsies; Autopsy; Biological and medical sciences; Clinical Competence; Curricula; Education; Family physicians; Female; Forensic medicine; Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; Humans; Male; Medical education; Medical schools; Medical sciences; Medical student; Medical students; Pathology; Public health. Hygiene; Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine; Public speaking; Questionnaires; Religion; Schools; Self-Assessment; Students; Students, Medical - psychology; Surveys and Questionnaires; Teaching. Deontology. Ethics. Legislation; Turkey; Asia; Turkey; Medical education; Autopsy; Attitude; Medical student; Human; Medicine; Educational program; Questionnaire; Higher education; Legal medicine; Young adult; Student; Public health
• ISSN: 0379-0738; 1872-6283
• DOI: 10.1016/S0379-0738(00)00238-3

To assess the attitudes of medical students to autopsy, 6th year students in the Medical Schools located in İstanbul, Edirne and Bursa in Turkey were asked to participate in a questionnaire. In the questionnaire, the main questions were on the number of autopsies they had attended, the number of autopsies they had participated in, their reaction to the first autopsy, whether they felt the conditions were adequate or not and what would their objectives be upon deciding to perform an autopsy. In the evaluation, it was detected that most of the participants had attended an autopsy, only a minority had participated in autopsy and most of them felt uncomfortable and inadequate on performing autopsy. The results were discussed with respect to the literature.