The attitudes of medical students to autopsy

To assess the attitudes of medical students to autopsy, 6th year students i n the Medical Schools located in istanbul, Edirne and Bursa in Turkey were asked to participate in a questionnaire. In the questionnaire, the main que stions were on the number of autopsies they had attended, the number of aut opsies they had participated in, their reaction to the first autopsy, wheth er they felt the conditions were adequate or not and what would their objec tives be: upon deciding to perform an autopsy. In the evaluation, it was de tected that most of the participants had attended an autopsy, only a minori ty had participated in autopsy and most of them felt uncomfortable and inad equate on performing autopsy. The results were discussed with respect to th e literature. (C) 2000 Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.