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Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation (PTR) undergraduate degree departments and Vocational School of Health Services (VSHS) associate degree departments train healthcare professionals, which is important for both continuance of human health and treatment of various illnesses. Anatomic structures underlie the illnesses that these departments treat and care.Therefore, the graduates of these departments should have favorable knowledge of anatomy. The aim of this study is to evaluate and compare the self-efficacy belief levels about anatomy education of PTR students as undergraduate and VSHS students as associate degree.94 students from PTR department (age: 21.94±1.19) and 100 students from VSHS (age: 20.16±1.58) have participated in the study. Data collection questionnaire (gender, age, geographical region where he/she came from, residential place) and Anatomy Self-Efficacy Belief scale (ASEB) have been implemented on the participants.As a consequence, when the Anatomy Self-Efficacy Belief levels of undergraduate and associate degree students are compared, no significant difference has been found in total (p>0,05). However, when the answers given to the questions in self-efficacy belief level test are compared separately, a significant difference has been found in 4 questions (p<0,05). The reason for this is that the students of PTR department have more hours of anatomy lesson per week compared to the students of VSHS.As ASEB gets better, profession is done better in view of anatomy. This will help the graduates of both departments do their profession better and be more helpful to their patients.

Abstract. "Metaphor" word is described as a figurative expression in Turkish. A person transmits more explicitly his/her thoughts that are about an event or a concept he/she experienced. The aim of this study was to reveal emotions and thoughts of 1st class students in nursing about Anatomy lesson. 62 people who are students at 1st class in Vocational School of Health Services in 2014-2015 academic year have attended to our study. In questionnaire anthropometric and demographic traits of them were asked. They were wanted to create a metaphor about anatomy by filling in the blanks in " Anatomy resembles ...../ Anatomy is like .... ; because ..... " At the end of the assesment it has been detected that 44 metaphors have been produced. In these metaphors the most produced are ocean, puzzle, etc. When we divide these metaphors into categories and investigate them, there is an accumulation in discovering/revealing category with 24 metaphors. We believe that the metaphors which the students will generate, determining how to be lectured theoretical and practical anatomy lessons in a way that students are able to comprehend, will guide them.

Considering organ donation, cadaver supply routes and procurement rates, it seems that resources are limited. It is discussed from a broad perspective that the evaluation of ethical approaches in terms of cadaver needs in anatomy education and research areas, and the use of bodies obtained through donation are more appropriate. Healthcare workers' knowledge and attitudes on organ donation and transplantation are the main factors for making a positive impact on the society and raising the donation rate. In this study, the questions directed to the students were designed to assess their views on cadaveric and organ donation, their awareness of the issue, and their attitudes in case the person or his/her relatives need organ donation. When the obtained data were evaluated, statistically significant changes were observed between medical students' attitudes before and after the anatomy laboratory education (p<0.05). Although many of the students stated that their ideas did not change, this study shows that medical school students change their attitudes towards cadaver and organ donation issues after anatomy laboratory training.

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