Medical Students’ Views on Cadaver and Organ Donation |
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| Institution: | 1. Faculty of Medicine, Department of Anatomy, Kafkas University, Kars, Turkey;2. Faculty of Medicine, Department of General Surgery, Kafkas University, Kars, Turkey;1. Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, Department of Medicine, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota;2. Division of Nephrology and Hypertension, Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota;3. Division of Transplant Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota;4. Abdominal Transplant Surgery, Presbyterian Hospital, Albuquerque, New Mexico;5. Inpatient Transplant Pharmacy Services, MHealth Fairview, Minneapolis, Minnesota;6. Complex Care Analytics, MHealth Fairview, Minneapolis, Minnesota;1. Division of Urology, Department of Surgery, Faculty of Medicine, Siriraj Hospital, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand;2. Department of Surgery, Pokhara Academy of Health Sciences, Nepal;1. Department of Urology, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal;2. Medical School, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal;3. Math School, University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal;4. Department of Nephrology, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal;1. Neuroscience Research Center, Institute of Medical and Health Science, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang 050017, China;2. Hebei Key laboratory of Neurophysiology, Hebei Medical University, 050017, China;3. Department of Neurology, Beijing Tiantan Hospital, Capital Medical University, Beijing, China;4. Experimental Center for Teaching, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang 050017, China;5. Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, The Key Laboratory of Neural and Vascular Biology, Ministry of Education of China, Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang, Hebei 050017, China |
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| Abstract: | BackgroundOrgan and cadaver donation are 2 important issues that contribute to the future of medicine. Organ donation is a miraculous gift and enables the donor to continue to “live” in others. Cadavers are usually part of medical students’ first encounters with clinical work and play a very important role in medical education. The attitudes of medical students toward both organ and cadaver donation were evaluated in the current study.MethodsSixteen phrases about cadaver and organ donation were presented to the fourth-, fifth-, and sixth-year students of the Kafkas University Faculty of Medicine. The answers were compared between male and female students using the χ2 test.ResultsThere was a significant difference between the answers of the male and female students only to the first item (P = .043). Very important data were also obtained from the answers given to the other items in the study. Although many students, both male and female, agreed with the item “I would donate my organs,” the rate of agreement with “I would donate my body as a cadaver” was low for both sexes.ConclusionsThe results obtained from the study regarding organ and cadaver donation awareness are significant. It is extremely important to deal with the reluctance regarding this matter, starting from the medical students, to inform society in the appropriate manner. |
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